IPL 2022: Liam Livingstone’s all-round performance helped Punjab Kings beat Chennai Super Kings
Liam Livingstone was the star of the night for Punjab Kings as he took two crucial wickets and scored a half-century to beat Chennai Super Kings by runs in the 11th match. IPL 2022 at Brabourne Stadium, Mumbai on Sunday. Livingstone took the wicket of Shivam Dubey dwayne bravo He scored 60 runs in his three overs spell and in just 32 balls with the help of five fours and five sixes.
CSK never chased down the target of 181 as Vaibhav Arora picked up two crucial wickets from Robin Uthappa Moeen Ali While Kagiso Rabad had cheaply removed last season’s Orange Cap holder Ruturaj Gaikwad. Arshdeep Singh clean bowled CSK captain Ravindra Jadeja for a duck. Chennai needed a partnership after four wickets fell in the powerplay but Odion Smith was out Ambati Rayudu To completely transfer the momentum towards Punjab in the 8th over.
Shivam Dubey was the only CSK batsman who could trouble the PBKS bowlers. Southpaw scored 57 runs in 36 balls with the help of six fours and three sixes. He formed a significant partnership with M S Dhoni For the sixth wicket, he was dismissed by Liam Livingstone in the 15th over. Liam then took another wicket in the over as he sent Bravo back for a duck. Wickets kept wobbling at one end as Dhoni was stuck on the other.
Earlier, Twenty20 nomad Liam Livingstone scored 60 runs in 32 balls to justify his Rs 11.50 crore price-tag. CSK conceded only 71 runs in the back-10, much of the credit goes to a trio of overseas fast bowlers – Dwayne Pretorius (4-0-30-2), Dwayne Bravo (3-0-32-1) and Chris Jordan (4-0-23-2), who used variations to good effect, suffocated the opposition batsmen.
Actually, the bulk of 55 dot balls came in the second half of Punjab’s innings. Livingstone, one of the most destructive T20 batsmen in global leagues, did well in the end with five fours and as many sixes, sending the CSK bowlers on a leather hunt during the opening overs. Deepak Chahar’s absence has severely disabled the options of ‘real’ captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni as rookie left-arm seamer Mukesh Choudhary (4-0-52-1) rated his inexperience as well as costly to panic. paid.
There were 100m plus sixes off the length balls and Livingstone would often rock the track to disturb the length as he did with the vicious Bravo.
Even as the CSK bowlers were present at the crease, the thick lines went for a six. In fact, Bravo came under pressure and forced Dhoni to stand up to the stumps to prevent Livingstone from charging on the track. ‘On paper’ captain Jadeja (4-0-34-1) finally caught his man at short third-man, but even he looked ordinary without any help from the flat Brabourne stadium deck .
livingstone and Shikhar Dhawan (33 off 24 balls) added 95 runs for the third wicket in just 8.4 overs and it looked like a total of over 200 was on the cards. By the time Dhawan was fooled by Bravo’s slow pace, Punjab had set the stage by scoring 109 runs in the first 10 overs, which sadly the latter could not capitalize on. But after Livingstone’s dismissal, the ‘Reds’ could not keep up the pace although Vidarbha’s Jitesh Sharma (26 off 17 balls) became the latest unhinged domestic talent to announce his arrival with some audacious strokeplay.
Shah Rukh Khan (6 off 11 balls) who bullied domestic bowlers for entertainment in national tournaments has been well studied and is finding it difficult to go big against the superior quality of bowlers. Pretorius and Jordan keep the ball wide and full outside the off-stump and at the base of the bat, not letting them do anything in the arc.