Punjab Kings bowler Arshdeep Singh made a massive breakthrough by dismissing dangerous Travis Head and Aiden Markram in the same over during the PBKS vs SRH clash.
Arshdeep Singh Dismissed Travis Head, Markram in the Same Over
Travis Head played a massive role in SRH’s record-breaking inning against Mumbai where the team scored a whopping 277 runs in their first inning. Markram also made a decent contribution in the game by scoring 42 runs off 28 balls.
With a threatening batting lineup, PBKS required making an early breakthrough to avoid chasing a massive target. The expected results were delivered by Arshdeep Singh who dismissed Head(21) and Markram(0) in the same over.
In the second ball of the 4th over, Arshdeep Singh dismissed Travis Head for 21 runs and went on to dismiss Markram for a second ball duck in the 4th delivery of the same over.
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Speaking on the game, Punjab Kings won the toss and elected to bowl first where Travis Head and Abhishek Sharma opened the inning for SRH. SRH made a steady start by scoring 4 and 6 runs in the first two overs respectively.
But SRH made a gear change in the 3rd over where Head slammed Rabada for 16 runs. Arshdeep Singh who bowled the next over just flipped the entire inning by dismissing Head(21) and Markram(0) in the same over.
Following his extraordinary spell, Sam Curran in the next over dismissed Abhishek Sharma for 16 runs and loads pressure over the SRH batting lineup. At the end of the powerplay, SRH scored 40 runs for 3 wickets and registered their lowest total in powerplay this season.
While Rahul Tripathi and Nitish Reddy started to build a partnership, Harshal Patel in the 4th ball of the 10th over broke the partnership by dismissing Tripathi for 11 runs. With a wicket of the 10th over, SRH scored 66 runs for 4 wickets loss at the end of 10 overs.