According to coach Sanjeev Pathania, the pitch proved to be better for the batsmen. Both the teams made good scores with the bat. The Royal Challenge
According to coach Sanjeev Pathania, the pitch proved to be better for the batsmen. Both the teams made good scores with the bat. The Royal Challengers Bangalore team, who came to bat first, had scored a huge score of 205 runs in 20 overs, losing just 2 wickets, but the bowlers of the Punjab Kings XI team could not show anything amazing.
According to coach Pathania, it was a batting pitch, so the bowlers didn't have much to do. Although he should have focused on bowling accurately on such a pitch, but he could not do so. Due to this, the team that came out to bat first was able to achieve such a huge score. The Punjab team chased down such a huge target and won.
The reason for this was the poor bowling of the Royal Challengers team. The team gave only 20 to 25 extra runs. Accurate line and length was missing from the bowling. Had both the teams bowled more efficiently, runs could have been prevented and more wickets could have been taken. Punjab team achieved this target in just 19 overs by losing 5 wickets.
According to coach Pathania, many batsmen of the Punjab team were running in form. Punjab team got the advantage of this while chasing runs. Odeon Smith's brilliant innings of 25 runs in 8 balls is an example of this.
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