IMAGE: Punjab Kings skipper Shikhar Dhawan missed their dwelling sport towards Royal Challengers Bangalore as a result of damage. {Photograph}: BCCI

Punjab Kings must wait for an additional two to a few days on the supply of normal captain Shikhar Dhawan, which places him a uncertain starter for Saturday’s conflict towards Mumbai Indians within the Indian Premier League.

Dhawan sustained a shoulder damage throughout Punjab King’s match towards Gujarat Titans in Mohali on April 13. Regardless of lacking two matches since then, he’s nonetheless among the many high 5 most prolific batters this season with 233 runs in 4 matches at 116.50.

“It ought to take round 2-3 days extra,” PBKS’ fielding coach Trevor Gonsalves  advised the media when requested about Dhawan’s damage replace.

PBKS misplaced to Royal Challengers Bangalore by 24 runs on Thursday.

Speaking concerning the match, Gonsalves mentioned, “It was a very good wicket to bat on. We received them at a god sufficient rating, however we misplaced just a few wickets early on.”

PBKS have been bowled out for 150 in 18.2 overs, whereas chasing 175.

India and RCB pacer Mohammed Siraj grabbed 4/21 to do a lot of the harm throughout Punjab’s run chase.

“He (Siraj) is among the finest on this planet in the meanwhile,” mentioned RCB’s bowling coach Adam Griffith.

 “Even within the final sport the place (virtually) 440 runs have been scored, he went for (simply) 30. Not simply as we speak, he has been bowling nicely for the entire match and even earlier than that. We noticed how nicely he was bowling for India.

“He’s our chief and units the tone upfront with the ball and it’s no coincidence that our powerplays have been so good with the ball to this point within the match,” he added.

Griffith mentioned Siraj has been in a position to management his size exceptionally nicely and was not falling into the entice of pitching the ball as much as swing it.

“He’s nonetheless swinging it from that basically aggressive size that the batter can not get in or get right down to drive him. His capacity to get the ball come again into the right-hander and go throughout the left-hander has been an actual…

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