Chasing a modest total, Mayank Agarwal and KL Rahul got Punjab off to an excellent start by scoring 45 in the PowerPlay as Punjab Kings defeated Mumbai Indians by nine wickets to notch up their second victory of the season on Friday.
Punjab Kings (PBKS) won the toss and elected to bowl in their Indian Premier League match against Mumbai Indians (MI) at the MA Chidambaram Stadium on Friday. While MI have gone in unchanged from the last match, PBKS replaced Murugan Ashwin with fellow leg-spinner Ravi Bishnoi.
Manjrekar also opined that the Punjab outfit will have to tweak its top-order if it wants to utilize players like Chris Gayle and Nicholas Pooran.
skipper Virat Kohli won the toss and elected to bowl first against Rajasthan Royals at the Wankhede Stadium on Thursday. Kohli said that the 'confident' RCB unit has the ability to chase any total down.
Sunrisers Hyderabad outclassed Punjab Kings by nine wickets to snap their three-match losing streak in the IPL on Wednesday. In Match 15 of the tournament, Kolkata Knight Riders won th toss and opted to bowl first against Chennai Super Kings in Mumbai.
Sanjay Manjrekar said that MI's batting unit needs to step up, and Pandya's form in particular has been a cause of worry for the side.
Manjrekar lauded Chahar's ability to generate swing early in the game and also added that the bowler is among the "top-5 or top-6" pacers in India.
In the match against Delhi Capitals, Dhoni was bowled off an inside edge off the bowling of Avesh, as he tried to pull a delivery to the mid-wicket boundary.
Moeen opened only twice in IPL before scoring 14 runs in 10 balls. However, across T20 leagues, he has opened 37 times, scoring 1116 runs in 699 balls at a strike rate of 159.7 with a century and six fifties.
Manjrekar, however, noted that there were no "obvious mistakes" in his captaincy and that he made some good decisions throughout the game.
Against Punjab Kings, Samson hammered 119 off 63 balls but his heroics were not enough to seal the win for the Royals.
Sanjay Manjrekar named the two players who can shed the 'inconsistent' tag in the 2021 IPL season.
In the past two games in Chennai, the batting collapses in the final stages of the chase for KKR and SRH cost them the win.
Sunrisers Hyderabad crumbled under pressure for the second sconsecutive game as RCB made it two in two for the second time in IPL history in a single season.
Despite his worst ever IPL season last year in the UAE where he scored 108 runs in 106 balls for Kings XI Punjab, Maxwell was roped in by RCB for a whopping INR14.25 crore in the auction earlier this year in Chennai.
Since 2018, Kohli has a strike rate of 133.1 in T20 cricket which includes 121.4 in IPL 2020 and 113.8 in the only game he played this season.
Sanjay Manjrekar talked about the KKR player and also explained why the side's captain, Eoin Morgan has struggled in the two games so far.
Manjrekar further added that Hardik's bowling might come in handy for Mumbai in Chennai conditions where the defending champions will play four more games.
Rana bolstered KKR's top-order against SRH with his quick-fire 56-ball 80, laced with 9 fours and 4 maximums.
Manjrekar feels that Mumbai Indians have a far weaker spin-bowling attack compared to the other eight teams in the tournament.
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