Ryan Parag first player to hit 6 consecutive sixes in IPL
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Punjab Kings, with a strong performance, defeated Lucknow Super Giants by 37 runs in Indian Premier League (IPL) cricket on Sunday. After Prabhasimran Singh scored 91 runs off 48 balls, Punjab lost the toss and came into bat with a score of 236-5.
In reply, Lucknow lost 7 wickets and scored only 199 runs. Ayush Badoni scored 74 off 40 balls. He hit the same 5 fours and a six. Abdul Samad scored 45 runs off 24 balls by hitting 2 fours and 4 sixes. Avesh Khan played 10 balls and hit 3 fours and 1 six and remained unbeaten on 19 runs.
Lucknow played under pressure from the start as Mitchell Marsh was dismissed for nil, Aden McCram was dismissed for 13 and Nicholas Pooran was out for 6 runs. Captain Rishabh Pant was dismissed for 18 runs off 17 balls. From Punjab, Arshdeep Singh spent 16 runs in 3 overs, Azmatullah Omarzai spent 33 runs in 4 overs and Marco Jansen and Yuzvender Chahal took 1 wicket each.
Important After this win, Punjab has climbed to the second position with 15 points in 11 matches. Royal Challengers Bangalore are at the top with 16 points. Mumbai Indians and Gujarat Titans are second and third respectively with 14 points each. Delhi Capitals are fifth to seventh with 12, Kolkata 11 and Lucknow 10 points respectively. The top four teams will advance to the playoffs.
Punjab hit 16 fours and 18 sixes in the match, due to which the team managed to score over 200 runs for the 11th time. Only Mumbai have scored over 200 in one match more than Punjab. Prabhasimran alone hit 6 fours and 7 sixes.
Despite losing Piansh Arya for 1 run, Josh English scored 30 off 14 balls with 1 four and 4 sixes, captain Shreyas Iyer scored 45 off 25 balls with 4 fours and 2 sixes, Nehal Wadhera scored 16 runs off 9 balls. Shashank Singh scored 33 off 15 balls with 4 fours and 1 six and Marcus Stonis scored 15 off 5 balls. Lucknow's Akash Singh and Digwesh Rathi took 2 wickets each.
saved Kolkata
Rajasthan Royals captain Rian Parag hit 6 consecutive sixes but the defending champion Kolkata Knight Riders won by 1 run in an exciting match. Chasing the target of 207 runs, Rajasthan had lost 5 wickets when they made 71 runs.
Parag scored a 45-ball 95 at Kolkata's Eden Gardens, hitting six consecutive sixes in two different overs. This is the first time this has been possible in IPL. Earlier, Chris Gayle hit 5 sixes in one over in 2012, Rahul Tewatia in 2020, Ravindra Jadeja in 2021 and Rinku Singh in 2023.
23-year-old Parag has also come to this list. Simran Hetmyer hit 1 run on the first ball of the 13th over bowled by Moeen Ali. Parag then hit four consecutive sixes. In the sixth ball after Moeen bowled a wide, Parag also hit a six in the next ball. After Hetmyer, who came on strike in the first ball of the 14th over, hit 1 run again, Parag hit Varun Chakraborty's second ball for a six.
Vaibhav Suryavanshi 4, Krunalsingh Rathore, Dhruv Jirel, Wanindu Hasaranga were dismissed for zero. After opener Yashasvi Jaiswal was dismissed for 34 runs off 21 balls with 5 fours and 1 six, while regular captain Sanju Samson was injured, Parag, who was leading the team, shared a partnership of 92 runs with Hetmyer for the sixth wicket. Despite that, Rajasthan could only score 205-8.
Rajasthan needed 22 runs from the last over to win. Although Shivam Duve hit 2 sixes and 1 four, Vaibhav Arora conceded just 1 run off the last ball to give Kolkata a thrilling victory. Jofra Archer was run out on a non-strike while taking 2 runs off the last ball.
Earlier, after Andre Russell scored an unbeaten 57 runs in 25 balls, Kolkata, who batted first, made a score of 206-4. Player of the match Russell hit 4 fours and 6 sixes. Kolkata added 34 runs in the last 2 overs and 85 runs in the last 5 overs. Another unbeaten batsman Rinku scored 19 runs in 6 balls with 1 four and 2 sixes.
opener Sunil Narine was dismissed for 11 runs. Rahmanullah Gurbaz scored 35 off 25 balls with 4 fours and 1 six, captain Ajinkya Rahane scored 30 off 24 balls with 1 four and 2 sixes and Ankrish Raghuvanshi scored 44 runs off 31 balls with 5 fours. This is the ninth defeat in 12 games for Rajasthan, who are already out of the playoff race.
