Punjab Kings went down by 28 operates towards the five-time winner Chennai Super Kings in the Indian Leading League encounter listed here on Sunday. Even so, speedster Harshal Patel feels they are even now in the race for the playoff spots.
Following electing to bowl, Punjab limited CSK to 167/9 thanks to fantastic spells by Rahul Chahar and Harshal Patel at the Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association (HPCA) Stadium listed here.
Whilst the leg-spinner recorded figures of 3-23 in his 4 overs at an economic climate fee of 5.8, Harshal gave absent just 24 runs and picked 3 wickets as properly in his 4 overs, maintaining an economic system amount of 6.
But inspite of the stunning bowling general performance, Punjab fell short of the focus on and was not able to get their 3rd gain in a row. Even with the final result, Harshal taken care of that the aspect nevertheless experienced a likelihood of building it to the playoffs.
“We just want to play superior cricket. In terms of the playoff race, in 13 a long time of playing IPL, I have by no means found a staff out of the playoffs race or capable right before 13-14 video games are performed. We are even now in the race and as a group, we know when we enjoy large-high quality cricket and everybody understands their position properly, we know we can defeat any staff on any floor,” the suitable-arm speedy bowler stated in the post-match press convention.
The stand-in skipper Sam Curran also praised the bowling device following the match and said that it was a tough batting pitch.
“Imagined we bowled genuinely well. Rahul Chahar and Harshal were being amazing, I was fairly pleased at the halfway place but unfortunately, it was not meant to be. The wicket was almost certainly slower than we believed, we anticipated a tiny a lot more speed and bounce, it was pretty similar through the sport,” Curran claimed in the post-match presentation ceremony.
Punjab missing two early wickets, with the in-type Jonny Bairstow and Rilee Rossouw having out in just the to start with two overs. But Shashank Singh and Prabhsimran Singh saved their hopes alive with a solid 53-operate partnership.
“I feel with that opening spell, we were continue to in the activity when Prabhsimran Singh and Shashank Singh had been batting. Even nevertheless we lost two early wickets, we recovered with Prabhsimran and Shashank in the center throughout the powerplay. I think we were being fairly settled at that point. If we experienced manufactured superior decisions on which bowlers to focus on, we could have a various conclusion to the activity,” the 33-12 months-previous explained.
Punjab will subsequent consider on Royal Challengers Bangalore at the similar venue underneath the lights, and Harshal opened up on the learnings for his facet forward of the critical next activity.
“I think coming into this match, we believed that this would be a large-scoring venue since of the dimension of the boundary. Ordinarily, this pitch has a large amount of rate and bounce. But it was not like that, primarily today. The next sport we participate in will be a evening match. So, it may possibly be a little different and we might see 30-40 far more operates on the surface area.
“The classes we have realized is that if we bowl tough length, close to the stumps, and maintain stumps in play at all moments, there is ample reward for bowlers and shot-making is hard from that size,” he claimed.
Meanwhile, Rs 40 lakh was raised throughout the match in Dharamsala on Sunday to aid female little one training. The M3M Basis, in partnership with Shikhar Dhawan Foundation, has fully commited assist to ladies for vocational education, and Rs 5 Lakh will be donated for each and every 25 runs scored and 3 wickets taken by Punjab Kings for the duration of their dwelling online games.
Through the initiative, the organisation aims to supply vocational training assist to 111 ladies for up to Rs. 5 lakh, masking a overall volume of Rs. 5.55 crore about the next 5 many years.
Punjab Kings will following facial area Royal Challengers Bengaluru on Thursday (May 9).