IPL 2024 Points Table, Orange Cap, Purple Cap: Punjab Kings’ historic win hurts Mumbai Indians’ playoff chances | cricket news

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 the target of 262 runs set by Kolkata Knight Riders by eight wickets in the IPL 2024 match at the Eden Gardens. Achieved while remaining. Garden on Friday. PBKS had bettered South Africa’s 259/4 against West Indies in March last year. In the IPL, Rajasthan Royals recently held the previous record of chasing 224 against KKR at the Eden Gardens, equaling the record set against the then Kings XI Punjab (now Punjab Kings) in Sharjah in 2020. Did it.

With this win, Punjab Kings gained one place in the points table and moved up to 8th position with three wins from nine matches. Meanwhile, PBKS’s surge has resulted in Mumbai Indians slipping to ninth position with 6 points after playing eight matches. The rest of the points table remained unchanged.

Here is the updated IPL 2024 points table:

While Virat Kohli continues to top the scorer charts with the Orange Cap with 430 runs in 9 matches, Harshal Patel overtook Jasprit Bumrah in the list of wicket-takers with the Purple Cap with 14 wickets.

Kolkata Knight Riders, who came out to bat, scored 261/6 but PBKS completed the chase with eight balls remaining.

KKR made a 138-run partnership between openers Phil Salt (75 off 37 balls) and Sunil Narine (71 off 32 balls).

After this, the batsmen who came after the openers strengthened the position of the home team and took them to a huge score.

In reply, PBKS also got off to a great start and scored 93 runs for the loss of the wicket of Prabhsimran Singh in the powerplay.

Prabhasimran played an innings of 54 runs in 20 balls before being run out. Bairstow continued his brutal onslaught to help PBKS seal a stunning win. Bairstow (108 runs in 48 balls) was well supported by Shashank Singh, who scored 68 runs in just 28 balls.

(With PTI inputs)