Punjab Kings (PBKS) captain Shikhar Dhawan has heaped praises on Lucknow Supergiants pacer Mayank Yadav and said the youngster’s The bowling pace is good. The Punjab team lost to Lucknow Supergiants by 21 runs at the Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Cricket Stadium on Saturday. Results lose the game. Dhawan said in his post-match speech that Liam Livingstone’s injury during the match “hurts”. The captain concluded by saying that the team management will “analyze” their two consecutive defeats.

“They bowled well, unfortunately Levy (Livingstone) got injured and that hurt us, he would have come out in the 4th. We started well but Mayank bowled at a good pace. Faced He felt good and I was surprised by his pace but I wanted to use his pace against him but he bowled bouncers and yorkers well. I was careful and asked the batsmen to use the short side and used him of pace, but he got the ball into his body (when Bairstow was dismissed) and got him out, I said the same about Jitesh too. But Mohsin bowled very well and he held on very well The length, suffocated us. We have to analyze those failures, the catch did take some momentum away from us. That’s something we have to improve on in the future,” Dhawan said.

Looking back at the match between Lucknow and Punjab, the scorching knocks of Quinton de Kock (54 off 38 balls), Nicholas Pooran (42 off 21 balls) and Krunal Pandya (43* off 22 balls) provided the home team with 199/8 power.

Sam Curran led Punjab’s bowling attack after grabbing three wickets in four overs spell. Arshdeep Singh took two wickets after completing three overs. Kagiso Rabada and Rahul Chahar took only one wicket in their respective matches.

In response to LSG’s 199, PBKS openers Shikhar Dhawan and Jonny Naistow started the chase in a positive and aggressive manner. The two batsmen put on a 50-run partnership in 5.1 overs, with Dhawan getting a boundary off the bowling of left-arm seamer Mohsin Khan.

Mayank took the first wicket of his IPL career by removing Bairstow on the fourth ball of the 12th over. The right-handed batsman scored 42 runs off just 29 balls, hitting three fours and three sixes each in the innings before being sent back to the pitch. He formed an outstanding partnership of 102 runs with Dhawan.

Soon after Mayank took the first wicket, the momentum shifted towards the LSG side and the home team managed to defeat Punjab by 21 runs.

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