{"id":19970,"date":"2014-05-25T05:36:46","date_gmt":"2014-05-25T05:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=19970"},"modified":"2014-05-25T05:36:46","modified_gmt":"2014-05-25T05:36:46","slug":"ipl7-punjab-continues-to-dominate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=19970","title":{"rendered":"IPL7: Punjab continues to dominate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rajasthan Royals won the toss and elected to field in Mohali where the pitch was tailor made for&nbsp;<span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">batting. Virender Sehwag started in his typical fashion by taking 15 runs of the first over as Vikramjeet&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">Malik who was playing his first match of the tournament felt the heat. Sehwag once again could not&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">capitalize on the start and perished to Faulkner who struck in his very first ball of his first over. Manan&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">Vohra and Shaun Marsh continued to take on the bowlers as Punjab once again were threatening to&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">take the match away in the first 10 overs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Vohra got out in the weirdest fashion, failing to make his crease and the replays clearly showed that he&nbsp;<span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">was complacent and took it easy which cost him his wicket. Marsh did not disappoint with the bat as&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">he kept the scoreboard ticking before getting out to Malik on 40. Punjab lost a couple of wickets which&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">pulled back the run-rate and at the end David Miller and George Bailey found the fence more often than&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">not which gave them a more than competitive total of 180 to defend.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Royals did not quite get off to the best of starts as they Karun Nair early and although Sanju Samson&nbsp;<span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">and Ajinkya Rahane tried their level best to stitch together a partnership it never really threatened to&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">take the match away. In the middle overs Rajasthan Royals lost their way by losing wickets and Rishi&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">Dhawan\u2019s double blow with the ball in hand made the job even more difficult for the Royals.<br \/>\n<br \/>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Brad Hodge and James Faulkner made their presence felt with the bat in hand but by then the target&nbsp;<span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">was so stiff that it was almost impossible for the Royals to get anywhere close to the target. Punjab at&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">the end won the match by 16 runs which keeps them at the top of the table.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rajasthan Royals won the toss and elected to field in Mohali where the pitch was tailor made for&nbsp;<span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">batting. Virender Sehwag started in his typical fashion by taking 15 runs of the first over as Vikramjeet&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">Malik who was playing his first match of the tournament felt the heat. Sehwag once again could not&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">capitalize on the start and perished to Faulkner who struck in his very first ball of his first over. Manan&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">Vohra and Shaun Marsh continued to take on the bowlers as Punjab once again were threatening to&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">take the match away in the first 10 overs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Vohra got out in the weirdest fashion, failing to make his crease and the replays clearly showed that he&nbsp;<span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">was complacent and took it easy which cost him his wicket. Marsh did not disappoint with the bat as&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">he kept the scoreboard ticking before getting out to Malik on 40. Punjab lost a couple of wickets which&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">pulled back the run-rate and at the end David Miller and George Bailey found the fence more often than&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">not which gave them a more than competitive total of 180 to defend.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Royals did not quite get off to the best of starts as they Karun Nair early and although Sanju Samson&nbsp;<span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">and Ajinkya Rahane tried their level best to stitch together a partnership it never really threatened to&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">take the match away. In the middle overs Rajasthan Royals lost their way by losing wickets and Rishi&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">Dhawan\u2019s double blow with the ball in hand made the job even more difficult for the Royals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-isn-front-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>IPL7: Punjab continues to dominate - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=19970\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"IPL7: Punjab continues to dominate - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Rajasthan Royals won the toss and elected to field in Mohali where the pitch was tailor made for&nbsp;batting. 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Punjab lost a couple of wickets which&nbsp;pulled back the run-rate and at the end David Miller and George Bailey found the fence more often than&nbsp;not which gave them a more than competitive total of 180 to defend.&nbsp; Royals did not quite get off to the best of starts as they Karun Nair early and although Sanju Samson&nbsp;and Ajinkya Rahane tried their level best to stitch together a partnership it never really threatened to&nbsp;take the match away. 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