IPL 2021 - PBKS 221/6 (20) defeat RR 217/7 (20) by 4 runs

[Justcrazy]

Punjab wins a close , very close encounter

 

[jusarrived]

Give Arshadeep the MoM please, but it will go to Samson

 

[King_Kohli]

Lol
Samson over confidence.

 

[Devadwal]

Well played Sanju .

 

[oneindia]

What a match!! IPL is pure entertainment. There is no match for these matches.

 

[sindhiboy]

That was almost a 6.

Unbelievable innings. Rajisthan lose by a whisker

 

[Ab Fan]

Great game of cricket.

Waiting for RCB Vs PK Only come to watch if you have a very big heart.

 

[dildilpak]

Lol
Samson over confidence.

Tried to do a Dhoni & similarly failed

 

[Smbhayi]

Lol
Samson over confidence.

Not really, Morris mistimed full toss last time, so..

 

[sindhiboy]

Probably the best ipl game in the past few years

 

[Smbhayi]

Give Arshadeep the MoM please, but it will go to Samson

I said it early Arshdeep will be difference here..

 

[Ab Fan]

You gotta appreciate Samson for backing himself to do the job.

 

[MenInG]

PBKS 221/6 (20)

RR 217/7 (20)

Punjab Kings won by 4 runs

 

[Saj]

If you are going to turn down a single second last ball then you need to make sure you win the match on the last ball.

 

[jusarrived]

I said it early Arshdeep will be difference here..

Him and Sakriya were stand out for me on a 220 pitch. If not for Sakariya Punjab would have got close to 250 and Arshdeep was the reason Punjab won in the end

 

[King_Kohli]

Most 100s in IPL

6 - Chris Gayle
5 - Virat Kohli
4 - David Warner
4 - Shane Watson
3 - AB Devilliers
3 - Sanju Samson*

 

[jusarrived]

If you are going to turn down a single second last ball then you need to make sure you win the match on the last ball.

Samson is a little overconfident sometimes, doesn't play smart

 

[jnaveen1980]

You gotta appreciate Samson for backing himself to do the job.

Morris is totally out of touch. If Parag were there for one more over game would have been over. That shami over was good.

 

[deep82]

Jhye Richardson and Riley Meredith destroyed.
Welcome to IPL boysss !!! This is not a big bash !!!

 

[jnaveen1980]

Samson is a little overconfident sometimes, doesn't play smart

That was the right call. There is no way Morris is good enough to penetrate a 7-2 field atleast when he is new to the cresae

 

[Hasan123]

Just another high quality match in the IPL.

 

[Devadwal]

If you are going to turn down a single second last ball then you need to make sure you win the match on the last ball.

But Morris played 4 ball and score just 2 runs .it's was Morris who played 2 dot ball,that was the reason behind RR lose according to me .

 

[jusarrived]

That was the right call. There is no way Morris is good enough to penetrate a 7-2 field atleast when he is new to the cresae

Morris can hit, but more importantly there is a difference in needing a 4 or 6 to win .

 

[rhony]

Great game!! He should have taken that single though!! Trial by fire for Jhye and Meredith. They went for plenty but had some key moments too

 

[Hasan123]

Samson should have taken the single as getting a 6 to win is not easy at all. Just knowing that ball has to be 6 is a lot of pressure. A single would have put Morris on strike, he is a good striker of the ball.

 

[rhony]

Probably the best ipl game in the past few years

These two teams had a great game in the last IPL as well. Tewatia's heroics

 

[Saj]

But Morris played 4 ball and score just 2 runs .it's was Morris who played 2 dot ball,that was the reason behind RR lose according to me .

Yes but by taking that single Morris would have had no option but to go for it.

If Samson was batting with a number 11 then don't take the single.

 

[Ab Fan]

Morris is totally out of touch. If Parag were there for one more over game would have been over. That shami over was good.

Yeah, Shami's over turned it around. But Samson did make a comeback again by attacking the next over for 19 runs. However, without support, it was ultimately too much for him.

I don't care if giving a single to Morris would have increased RR's chance or not but as a captain and given the bowl striker Samson hismelf is, I liked his decision of backing himself to clear the boundary even if he failed to do.

 

[jnaveen1980]

Morris can hit, but more importantly there is a difference in needing a 4 or 6 to win .

From the evidence we saw he could barely touch the ball. He probably did some 5 or 6 years back. Not in recent times.

 

[Smbhayi]

Morris can hit, but more importantly there is a difference in needing a 4 or 6 to win .

Still a boundary needed.. And Samson is the right person to do that moment.. Morris mistimed all balls he faced..

 

[Smbhayi]

Samson should have taken the single as getting a 6 to win is not easy at all. Just knowing that ball has to be 6 is a lot of pressure. A single would have put Morris on strike, he is a good striker of the ball.

Not recently, and if Sanju hit 4 last ball they can go to super over..

 

[Smbhayi]

Full toss, poor by Morris.. Sanju should try to face all balls..

This is what I said when 3 balls left, and Sanju did right thing.. No doubt about that..

 

[Hasan123]

Not recently, and if Sanju hit 4 last ball they can go to super over..

But knowing you have to hit the last ball for 6 is very difficult and a lot of pressure.

 

[AMSS]

Long levered Morris had more chances of hitting a boundary than Samson nailing a 6.

 

[Noman]

Long levered Morris had more chances of hitting a boundary than Samson nailing a 6.

Morris was looking like idiot batting 4 balls 2 runs he scored

 

[DHONI183]

IPL 2021 - PBKS 221/6 (20) defeat RR 217/7 (20) by 4 runs

Now, I know that people must be bashing Sanju for declining that single off the penultimate ball, and perhaps rightly so, but I must point out here is that it was an incredibly brave act on his part, although it ended up looking foolish in the end. It takes an incredible amount of guts to be pulling off something such. He lost in the end, I feel sad for him, and it also has kind of taken the focus off his great innings, but we must remember that he did something knowing well that the entire blame for the defeat will lie on his shoulders.

This match once again underlines that anything below 210 is not a defend-able total on that Mumbai surface. Punjab just about got to a score which proved to be enough in the end; it just did. I still can´t believe because it never looked like towards the end that Punjab will end up defending the score. What a game!

 

[Napa]

If you are going to turn down a single second last ball then you need to make sure you win the match on the last ball.

If he had taken the single and Morris didn't hit a boundary on the last ball, he would have got a lot more criticism!