Enter Brar. Not quite but almost. Brar bashed him for a six and a four since he leaked 18 in the 18th over. Mohammed Siraj plugged things with a seven-run over but KL Rahul and Brar looted 22 away Patel in the last over. A below-par total had jumped into 179. peoples have played satta on this match.
For six overs out of 11.1, Punjab could not get a border. And lost wickets at a clutch. Chris Gayle had dropped in the 11th over following a whirlwind 46 and Nicholas Pooran for a duck at the 12th -- since Punjab began to stutter. They dropped Deepak Hooda and enforcer Shahrukh Khan cheaply, entering the 18th over with the score reading 132 for 5 -- they had been 99 for 1 when Gayle dropped.
Bangalore fried
For a while, Kohli was exposing his cards: attacking the first ball of overs since Bangalore attained 62/1 after 10 overs. It was not an ideal start to the chase as both Kohli and Rajat Patidar, whose stance is cloned from his priest, struggled to discover boundaries but at least they had wickets complete with their enforcers to come.
Next basketball, Brar chose to reveal new batsman Maxwell he could turn the ball sharply, if he chooses. The Aussie's bat-flow on middle stump indicated he was playing with the straighter one, but it spun beyond the waft to take the off-bail. Even de Villiers couldn't cease that over from being a double-wicket maiden.
Enter Brar. Kohli charged down the track, the very first ball again, but Brar was ready using a skidder from short of a length that hurried past the heave to violate the stumps.
Brar sizzles
Much credit, understandably, goes to Rahul for his 91 (off 57 balls) but it was Brar who'd reignited Punjab's spark. Rahul's was a fine knock, particularly for the way he was able to stop and start in a variety of phases. At first, it had been Gayle who created havoc with five fours from the past Powerplay over off Kyle Jamieson. Rahul too joined in the mayhem when Gayle dropped. However, when three batsmen departed, Rahul retreated into a wait-and-watch match. Brar provided the kickstart and Rahul thumped a six and two fours from the last over of the innings.
Brar wasn't done yet. He also delivered a short-of-length skidder that stuck at the pitch and de Villiers struck it straight to short cover. Three big fish for no runs, and throw that 25, it turned into a dreamy night for Brar.
His is the way Harpreet Brar won the game for Punjab Kings. Seven chunks, no run, as well as the 3 significant wickets of both Virat Kohli, Glenn Maxwell and AB de Villiers in the chase. A momentum-turning 25 with the bat which helped KL Rahul (91*) and Punjab finish on a high with 179/5. Until Brar's breezy knock, Royal Challengers Bangalore have been in control. Until Brar's lethal spell, Kohli's group was living, even if in a little bit of trouble at 62/1 at 10 overs. However, the collapse that he engineered led to a 34-run win for KL Rahul's men. Not a bad outing for someone who had to wait for seven years and slog through four trials before an IPL team picked him in 2018.