The Punjab Kings are set to face off against Sun Risers Hyderabad in the 69th match of IPL 2024 at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium.Â
SRH holds the 3rd position on the points table while PBKS is featured on the 9th spot, just above Mumbai Indians who finished their last match of the tournament on Friday.
The PBKS captain Sam Curran, has left for England along with Jos Buttler Rajasthan Royals Jonny Bairstow also from PBKS to prepare before the upcoming ICC T20 World Cup.
Jitesh holds the reigns as Curran abandons mid-season
Despite sugarcoating it with their big words, the English cricketers have failed to be loyal to their respective IPL franchises.
In a bold move, all the players from the England Cricket team, jetted out to their homeland to prepare for the upcoming T20 World Cup, claiming it to be ‘national duty’. Curran was named in England’s five-match T20 series squad against Pakistan and will join the team for the first T2OI, scheduled on May 22 at Leeds.
In the meantime, the PBKS team is being led by Jitesh Sharma from the team, for their last match of IPL 2024. The PBKS team is already put of the race to qualify for the playoffs, after winning 5 out of the 13 matches they played.Â
When Sunil Gavaskar got mad at the English cricketers
Sunil Gavaskar, former India captain, has urged the BCCI and IPL franchises to take some strict steps as a response to the England and Wales Cricket Board’s directive that players return home for national duty before the T20 World Cup.
In his column for Mid Day, Gavaskar asked IPL franchisees to penalise the players, with some part of their pay for being in the tournament, stressing the financial consequences of their premature exit. “I am all for players choosing country before anything else, but having assured various franchises about their availability for the full season, if they pull out now, it will be letting down the franchises. The franchises should not only be allowed to deduct a substantial amount from the fee that the player was bought for, but also not give the Board, to which the player belongs, the stated 10 per cent commission of the fee that each player gets,” Gavaskar stated.
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