Punjab clinched their win after 4 consecutive looses defeating KKR. This match witnessed 42 sixes in a single match which is highest in IPL.
Today’s match will go down in history for the successful highest run chase in IPL and also for the highest number of sixes in a single match. Both KKR and PBKS together hit 42 number of sixes in this match. Punjab won the toss and choose to bowl first. Phil Salt and Sunil Narine opened the game for Kolkata Knight Riders and started off with a hitting big boundaries and they both quickly made their fifties. Phil Salt scored his half-centuries in 25 balls with 6 fours and 6 sixes and Sunil Narine scored his half-centuries in 23 balls with 9 fours and 4 sixes.
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Prabhsimran Singh and Jonny Bairstow opened for the PBSK. Singh gave the hard time to the bowlers in the powerplay and he scored 54 runs in 20 balls hitting 5 sixes and 4 fours. Bairstow stand strongly on the crease and give his best to reduce the pressure and hit his hundred in 45 balls with 9 sixes and 8 fours with a strike rate of 200+. After Rilee Rossouw’s wicket Shashank Singh came to the crease and support partnership of 84 runs with Bairstow and helped the team to win the match.
| Name of the Player | Runs | Balls | Fours | Sixes |
| Phil Salt | 75 | 37 | 6 | 6 |
| Sunil Narine | 71 | 32 | 9 | 4 |
| Venkatesh Iyer | 39 | 23 | 3 | 2 |
| Andre Russell | 24 | 12 | 2 | 2 |
| Shreyas Iyer | 28 | 10 | 1 | 3 |
| Rinku Singh | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 |
| Ramandeep Singh | 6 | 3 | 0 | 1 |
| Prabhsimran Singh | 54 | 20 | 4 | 5 |
| Jonny Bairstow | 108 | 48 | 8 | 9 |
| Rilee Rossouw | 26 | 16 | 1 | 2 |
| Shashank Singh | 68 | 28 | 2 | 8 |
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