Punjab won with the help of Bairstow's Century

                                

Punjab Kings beat Kolkata Knight Riders by 8 wickets in the Indian Premier League (IPL) on Friday after Jonny Bairstow scored a brilliant not out century.

Chasing a target of 262 runs, Bairstow's century and Prabhsimran Singh and Shanshak Singh completed half-century with 2 wickets before 8 balls.

Bairstow scored 108 not out with the help of 9 sixes and 8 fours in 48 balls. Similarly, Shanshak scored 68 not out with the help of 8 sixes and 2 fours in 28 balls. Prabhasimran scored 54 runs in 20 balls with the help of 5 sixes and 4 fours. Riley Rossouw scored 26 runs off 16 balls with 2 sixes and 1 six.

Sunil Narine took 1 wicket for Kolkata.

Before that, Kolkata, who were invited to bat after losing the toss, scored 261 runs for 6 wickets in the scheduled 20 overs with the half-centuries of Phil Salt and Sunil Narine.

Salt and Narine got off to a strong start scoring 138 runs for the first wicket. Salt scored 75 runs off 37 balls with 6 sixes and a four. Narine scored 71 runs off 32 balls with 9 fours and 4 sixes. The subsequent batters also tried to handle the innings. Bangtes Air scored 39 off 23 balls, Andre Salle scored 24 runs off 12 balls, Shreyas Air scored 28 off 10 balls.

Arshdeep Singh of Punjab took 2 wickets, Sam Karan, Harsal Patel, Sahul Chahar took 1 wicket each.

After 9 games, Punjab has reached 6 points and the team is in eighth place. Kolkata is second with 10 points.