IPL 2022: Punjab register 5-wicket win over SRH, finish tournament on a high

Punjab Kings signed off from IPL 2022 on a high by registering a fivewicket win over Sunrisers Hyderabad at the Wankhede Stadium on Sunday After leftarm spinner Harpreet Brar and pacer Nathan Ellis took three wickets each to restrict Hyderabad to 1578 Punjab chased down the total with 29 balls to spare thanks to a rollicking unbeaten 49 off just 22 balls from Liam LivingstoneIn the pursuit of 158 Jonny Bairstow began with five boundaries off Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Washington Sundar in the first two overs Despite getting a reprieve from Umran Malik in the second over Bairstow couldnt make much of the chance as leftarm pacer Fazalhaq Farooqui flattened his offstumpShahrukh Khan got going by pulling Kumar for a six over deep midwicket In the next over he clipped Farooqi through the same region for four Shikhar Dhawan was lucky to survive an inner edge off Farooqui and went on to thump Jagadeesha Suchith by dancing down the pitch and smacking backtoback sixes over deep midwicketShahrukh welcomed Umran Malik with a beautiful straight drive But the pacer who got a callup to Indias T20I squad before the match began had the last laugh as Shahrukh miscued to midon With Mayank Agarwal falling cheaply to Sundar after suffering a blow to his ribcage off Malik Punjab needed quick runs to win the matchThat was provided by Livingstone who was off the mark with a gigantic pulled six over deep midwicket off Sundar He then thumped Malik for consecutive sixes wide longoff and deep midwicket Though Dhawan chopped on to his stumps Jitesh Sharma struck three fours and a six in his first five balls before holing out to longon off SuchithBy then Livingstone had been dropped again at 26 after being given a reprieve earlier at six From there on the hardhitting batter clubbed Romario Shepherd for two fours and as many sixes including bringing the 1000th six of the tournament to take 23 runs off the 15th over Debutant Prerak Mankad lofted Malik over cover for the winning boundary to sign off from the tournament on a highEarlier Washington Sundar and Romario Shepherd produced late fireworks to take 58 runs off the last four overs to give a big boost to Hyderabad who were in trouble at 965 They had a sedate start getting nine runs in the first two overs Punjab drew the first blood when Priyam Garg tried to flick too early against a crossseam delivery on pads from Kagiso Rabada and the leadingedge was caught by midoffRahul Tripathi joined forces with Abhishek Sharma to stitch a 47run stand off 35 balls including the former being dropped by pacer Nathan Ellis off his own bowling But Brar in his first over ended the partnership by having Tripathi sweep a down leg delivery straight into the hands of short fine legBrar returned in his second over to take out Abhishek Sharma who tried to loft over longon But the lefthander never got the elevation and Livingstone jumped in the air to take the catch with both hands just inside the advertising ropePunjab continued to dent Hyderabads innings as Nicholas Pooran nicked straight off an acrossgoing delivery to Sharma off Ellis Brar picked up his third wicket of the night by using turn and bounce to get Aiden Markram forward and Sharma from behind whipped the bails when the righthanders backfoot strayed out of the creaseFrom 965 in 144 overs Hyderabad were able to cross the 150mark thanks to the 58run stand off 29 balls between Sundar and Shepherd After starting cautiously against Arshdeep the duo took 43 runs off overs 17 18 and 19 hitting eight boundaries between themselves including a scoop from Sundar off Rabada to give Hyderabad a respectable score despite the batter and J Suchith falling in the final over proving inadequate to avoid a lossBrief scores Sunrisers Hyderabad 1578 in 20 overs Abhishek Sharma 43 Romario Shepherd 26 not out Nathan Ellis 341 Harpreet Brar 326 lost to Punjab Kings 1605 in 151 overs Liam Livingstone 49 not out Shikhar Dhawan 39 Fazalhaq Farooqui 232 Washington Sundar 119 by five wicketsThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever