Punjab’s innings against the Titans contained an astounding 54 dots, or no runs in nine of every 20 overs. Gujarat had 34 dot balls in contrast.
The Punjab Kings suffered their second straight defeat in IPL 2023 when they lost by six wickets to the Gujarat Titans at the IS Bindra Stadium in Mohali.
On Saturday, it will play the aggressive Lucknow Super Giants. Shikhar Dhawan’s team must address their high dot-ball count before this road game, though.
Punjab’s innings against the Titans contained an astounding 54 dots, or no runs in nine of every 20 overs. Gujarat had 34 dot balls in contrast.
Once the field expanded out, the ones and twos became the missing piece for PBKS, and those borders were not easily accessible. PBKS had five twos to GT’s 10, and had 38 singles to GT’s 52.
Punjab had more boundaries than Gujarat
It’s interesting to note that Punjab had more boundaries than Gujarat, with 21 (16 fours and 5 sixes), compared to Gujarat’s 18 (17 fours and 1 six). Punjab would have achieved an above-average score if it had been able to turn even half of those 54 dots into ones and twos.
In this year’s IPL, Punjab has faced the most dot balls (203), as well as the most dots (93), between overs 7 and 16. This puts the team’s batting difficulties into perspective as the top-order struggles to get off to a fast start.
It is difficult to justify PBKS’s high dot-ball percentage against GT given that the match was played on pitch number 5 of the Mohali square, which had a large square boundary on one side (74m) for the batters to place the ball in the gaps and run. Even if one accepts the premise that there will be varying degrees of difficulty in strike rotation depending on the venue.
On Saturday, the running between wickets will become more important if Lucknow creates a challenging, two-paced black-soil surface that makes shot-making challenging.
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