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Punjab Kings brought Shashank Singh to the team for just 2 million rupees in the IPL auction. But soon after that they want to cancel it. The reason is that they have bought the wrong shashank. But it is informed that once a player is purchased, he cannot be cancelled.
Shashank Singh, who was bought by mistake, won the team chasing the huge target of 200 runs thrown by Gujarat Titans on Wednesday night. He is also the best of the match.
Punjab lost 5 wickets for 111 runs in 12.2 overs chasing runs. Then Shashank entered the field. He remained unbeaten from there till the last ball. The 32-year-old batsman left the field with 6 fours and 4 sixes off 29 balls, an innings of 61 runs at a strike rate of 210.34.
However, in the fourth match, his bat laughs. Earlier he had scored zero against Delhi Capitals, 21 not out against Royal Challengers Bangalore and 9 not out against Lucknow Super Giants.
At the end, without Shashank, Ashutosh Sharma played an innings of 31 runs off 17 balls with 3 fours and 1 six and cheered the team's victory. Apart from this, Prabashimran Singh scored 35 with 5 fours and 1 six and Jonny Bairstow scored 22 runs with 4 fours. Punjab won the second match by scoring 200 runs in 19.5 overs.
Noor Ahmed of Gujarat Titans with the ball took 2 wickets with 32 runs in 4 overs.
And Shubman Gill was the best of Gujarat with the bat. He played an unbeaten innings of 89 runs off 48 balls with 6 fours and 4 sixes. Besides, Sai Sudarshan scored 33 with 6 fours, Kane Williamson scored 26 with 4 fours and Rahul Tewatia played an unbeaten innings of 23 runs with 3 fours and 1 six. Gujarat got a huge collection of 199 runs by losing 4 wickets. But even this run was not enough for Gujarat to win on Shashank's stormy day.
Punjab's Kagisu Rabada took 2 wickets with 44 runs in 4 overs. Harpreet Brar took 1 wicket.
