“Cricket is turning into baseball”: Sam Curran’s monumental remarks as PBKS chase world record 262 against KKR | cricket news

“Cricket is turning into baseball,” Punjab Kings skipper Sam Curran aptly summed up his team’s T20 world record 262-run chase against Kolkata Knight Riders in the IPL here on Friday. Led by Jonny Bairstow’s incredible century, Punjab Kings set a new world record for the highest run chase in the history of T20 cricket as they chased down KKR’s 261/6 with eight wickets and eight balls remaining.

“Very pleasant. The most important win, cricket has turned into baseball right? We are happy with the two points,” Curran said at the post-match presentation ceremony.

“It’s been a tough few weeks for us as a team. Forget about the score, we deserved this win.”

When asked about the big scores being scored by teams this IPL season, Curran said, “There are a lot of different things, people hitting the balls longer, coaches, training, dew, dot balls. After review it becomes wide and you get it.” Extra ball.

“Statistics are going out the window. For us, it’s all about the little moments. We’re right there with the ball, too.” Speaking about Bairstow’s unbeaten century and Shashank Singh’s fighting innings, he said, “Really pleasing for Jonny, he has been on the tour for a long time and was keen to score.

“Shashank, wow, he was promoted to No. 4 and he is our find of the season. We have to enjoy the small wins, although it was a big win for Kolkata.” Player of the match Bairstow said his aim was to hit the ball as far as possible and the opening partnership of 93 runs in six overs was crucial for the visiting team.

“We started well and that was important. He got a flyer himself thanks to Sunil, so we knew we had to be ballistic in the powerplay,” Bairstow said.

“When you have to chase 200-plus you have to take risks in the powerplay. (How to chase such a target?) Try to hit as hard as possible (laughs). It’s a case of If it’s in you you go after it, we wanted to lose as few wickets as possible.

The Englishman praised Shashank for the way he has batted this season and in this match.

“Shashank has done that all season, he’s a lovely lad and a special player. It’s incredible for someone like him to come in and do that. His knowledge, he’s not even young, he’s nice and cool, the way he Full credit to him for the performance he performed and hit it cleanly.” PBKS had bettered South Africa’s 259/4 against West Indies in March last year. In the IPL, Rajasthan Royals recently beat the previous record of 224 runs chase against KKR at Eden Gardens. And equaled the record made against the then Kings XI Punjab (now Punjab Kings) in Sharjah in 2020.

KKR captain Shreyas Iyer said, “The way the batsmen batted was tremendous. You ask so much from them and they did it. Both the teams played tremendously. You have to go back to the drawing board and see what you can do.” Where did you go wrong?”

Iyer said, “Not to defend against injuries, but this is a big lesson for the players.”