The Indian Premier League 2025 season was played on Tuesday at the Narendra Modi Stadion in Ahmedabad, a brilliant match between Gujarat Titans and Punjab Kings. In this match, the Punjab Kings team captained by Shreyar Iyer captured the match by 11 runs.
After losing the toss in this match, Punjab Kings batted first and gave Gujarat a target to score 244 runs by losing five wickets. In response, the Gujarat team could score 232 runs after losing 5 wickets and lost the match in the homeground itself. Sai Sudarshan scored the highest 74 runs off 41 balls for Gujarat. Jose Butler scored 54 runs. There were many important reasons for the victory of Punjab Kings in this match.
Priest Arya opening
Priyansh Arya, who hit sixes in an over in the Delhi Premier League, has made an IPL debut for Punjab Kings from this match. By showing his game in this match, he told that he is a long race horse. In this match, he scored 47 off 23 balls with the help of 7 fours and 2 sixes. Although he missed out on scoring his half -century, his strike rate was 204.34. The way Priyansh batted aggressively, the Punjab team remained in a strong position from the beginning. Other batsmen of the team also got a great opportunity to play with it.
Emphasis on scoring runs, not focusing on century
Punjab Kings scored a lot of runs in this match played against Gujarat Titans. During the 17th over to the 20th over in the match, Punjab captain Shreyas scored seven runs playing just four balls. In this match, he returned to the pavilion after scoring an unbeaten 97. Even during the death overs, Shreyas did not think that Shashank Singh, who was standing at non -strike end, allowed to play openly. He took a strike in the last three overs and bombarded fours and sixes.
Shashank told after the match that Shreyas had clearly said that focus on hitting fours, not on my century. After this, Shashank scored 44 runs in 16 balls, hitting fours and sixes. This innings hit six fours and two sixes. Due to this innings, Punjab was successful in scoring 243 runs. Shreyas did not have a strike in the final over. Shashank was cast by Mohammad Siraj, the last over, in which he scored 23 runs with the help of five fours. This over match proved to be winning and finally Punjab won the match by 11 runs.
Impact player gives a chance to Vaishakh
The Impact Player for Punjab Kings was Vaishakh Vijayakumar. To field them in the field was also an important decision. Vaishakh Vijayakumar threw three overs from 15th to three overs. In these overs, he threw wide yorker. Planning was done to harass the batsmen. He conceded 28 runs in three overs. The entire match of these three overs went to Punjab’s account. Vaishakh threw the 15th, 17th and 19th over, with only five, five and 18 runs. Thanks to these overs, Gujarat slipped from the hand of Gujarat. In these overs, the Gujarat team had a brake on the speed of scoring runs.
