As Jonny Bairstow hits one ball after another over the boundary, the ‘Bare Stole Show’ flashed on the side screen. This England batsman stole all the lights in Eden Gardens, which suddenly became a batting heaven. Bairstow is the hero of winning the Punjab Kings by scoring a record 262 runs in T20 history. Along with him, one of the best discoveries of this IPL, Shashank Singh, put the finishing touches on the canvas of the team’s victory. Punjab beat Kolkata Knight Riders by 8 wickets with 8 balls in hand in the batting of the two. They won four consecutive matches with incredible batting.
Bairstow was leading the T20I with a record 42 sixes. The English batsman who scored a century off 45 balls was unbeaten on 108 runs. His 48-ball innings had 8 fours and 9 sixes.
Phil Salt and Sunil Narine’s explosive batting made Kolkata score 261 for 6 wickets. Bairstow and Shashank overtook these two.
Bairstow was aggressive from the start. He scored 93 runs in the power play with opener Pravsimran Singh. Pravsimran was run out on the last ball of the power play. He scored 54 runs off 20 balls with 4 fours and 5 sixes.
Bairstow once again attacked the Kolkata bowlers with Riley Russo. He silenced the entire gallery of Calcutta. Narine broke the silence of the Kolkata gallery with the ball in hand. Rousseau was caught by Shreyas Iyer when he bowled a low outside ball, he scored 26 runs off 16 balls. The pair of 85 runs was broken.
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Calcutta’s elation was short-lived. Shashank dampened their enthusiasm by hitting Varun Chakraborty for two consecutive sixes. And the hosts could not return to the match. Punjab won the tough match easily with the pair of unbeaten 94 runs. They scored 262 runs for 2 wickets in 18.4 overs. Shashank was unbeaten on 68 runs off just 28 balls with 2 fours and 8 sixes.
South Africa won by 259 against the West Indies in the Centurion in March last year. This record was broken by Punjab.
Earlier, Kolkata got off to a great start with Narine and Salt. They added 138 runs in the opening. Salt scored 75 runs off 37 balls with six fours and sixes. Narine’s 71 runs came from 32 balls with 9 fours and 4 sixes.
In the end, Kolkata made a big score with Andre Russell’s 24 from 12 balls and O Iyer’s 28 from 10 balls.
Punjab won the third win in 9 matches with 6 points. Kolkata is second with 10 points after playing one match less.
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