• Punjab Kings defeated Rajasthan Royals in a thrilling game.

  • Nathan Ellis returned with impressive figures of 4-0-30-4.

Twitter reactions: PBKS survive Dhruv Jurel scare after Shikhar Dhawan’s batting heroics against RR in IPL 2023
PBKS beat RR in a thriller (Image Source: Twitter)

The Punjab Kings (PBKS) defeated Rajasthan Royals (RR) in the eighth match of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2023, which turned out to be an absolute thriller at the Barsapara Cricket Stadium in Guwahati on Wednesday.

Put into bat, Prabhsimran Singh showed his ‘A-Game’ as he smashed 60 runs off just 34 balls with 7 fours and 3 sixes. Similarly, veteran skipper Shikhar Dhawan also sizzled with the bat and remained unbeaten with 86 runs off 56 balls with 9 fours and 3 sixes. The duo helped Punjab Kings post a challenging total of 197/4 in their 20 overs.

In response, the Royals started well with contributions from Sanju Samson (42 runs off 25 balls) and Shimron Hetmyer (36 runs off 18 balls) but lost wickets at crucial intervals. Dhruv Jurel played a quickfire knock of 32 runs off just 15 balls towards the end and took the game down to the wire, but it wasn’t enough as RR fell 5 runs short of the target, finishing at 192/7 in their 20 overs.

For Punjab Kings, Nathan Ellis was the pick of the bowlers as he picked up 4 wickets for 30 runs in his quota of 4 overs. Likewise, Arshdeep Singh took 2 wickets for 47 runs.

Here is how Twitter reacted:

https://twitter.com/jadejamayur010/status/1643644052670414848

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