Mumbai| Opener Shikhar Dhawan, who scored an unbeaten 88 off 59 balls in an Indian Premier League (IPL) match against Chennai Super Kings, led Punjab Kings to an 11-run victory, says he had the advantage of batting patiently at the start of the innings. Happened.
Batting first, after restricting Chennai to 176 runs after making 187 for four, Punjab registered their fourth win of the season, in a video released on the IPL website, Dhawan said in a conversation with his teammate Arshdeep Singh, I was coming to a halt, so it was getting difficult to play the shot. So I was playing patiently. Once there was consistency, one or two overs came in which we scored more runs. ,
When asked about targeting a single ball, Dhawan said, “There was no thought of taking an aggressive approach against any particular bowler. Yes, I had a small boundary in mind, I was trying to score more runs on that side but after spending time in the field, I also scored runs towards the big boundary. He said, “I have played against CSK (Chennai) a lot of times, so their plan gets an idea. There was a new Sri Lankan bowler (Maheesh Teekshana) in his team, I wanted to play him carefully, when the time came, he got aggressive runs against him too.
I knew about his plan that he would bowl wide yorkers, score runs on such balls also.” He credited Arshdeep for his return to the match, saying, “You bowled well and brought us back in the match.” .
This win was very important for us.
