Rahul Tiwari
khelja|09-04-2025
Punjab Kings young opener Priyansh Arya scored a stormy century against Chennai Super Kings. He scored 103 runs in 42 balls at a strike rate of 245 in 42 balls. During this, Priyansh completed a half -century in the first 19 ball and then a century in 39 balls. Chennai bowlers appeared helpless in front of his sharp batting. He beaten Mathisha Pathirana, especially one of the deadliest bowlers of CSK. Priyansh put a series of sixes in the over of Pathirana, who describes Dhoni as his father. During this, Dhoni could not do anything other than watching quietly from behind the wicket.
Priyansh Arya and Mathisha Pathirana face to face during the 13th over in the first innings. Then Priyansh was batting in an explosive manner by scoring 80 runs in 35 balls. Shashank Singh gave him a strike by taking a single off the first ball. After this, Priyansh hit a six in the direction of deep backward point on a low fulltoss. Then on the next ball, he hit a six on deep mid wicket. After consuming two sixes, Pathirana wanted to scare Priyansh Arya with a short ball. But he also hit a six on this.
In this way, Priyansh hit 3 consecutive sixes one after the other.
At the same time, Priyansh hit a four on the fifth ball of the over and completed his first IPL century. He played the last ball dot. In this way, he hit 22 runs in 5 balls against Pathirana and Dhoni kept looking from behind the wicket. Priyansh hit 9 sixes and 7 fours during his innings. Priyansh is only the second batsman to score a century in this season. Before that, Ishaan Kishan had scored a century against Rajasthan Royals.This match did not go well for Mathisha Pathirana. He proved to be very expensive. Not only Priyansh Arya but other batsmen of Punjab also raised him fiercely.
Pathirana robbed 52 runs in his 4 overs. His economy remained 13 and he could not even lick any wicket. Pathirana robbed 52 runs in his 4 overs. His economy remained 13 and he could not even lick any wicket.