Punjab is currently taking on Mumbai at the Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium in Pune. Mumbai won the toss and decided to bowl first. Mayank Agarwal and Shikhar Dhawan gave Punjab the perfect start, and started striking from ball one. They played with the right intent as they started scoring from the word go. Punjab's captain Agarwal, took the responsibility to give the team a quick start.
While Dhawan kept on rotating the strike, Agarwal was attacking the bowlers. The two added 97 runs on the board for the opening partnership with Agarwal scoring his first half-century of the Indian T20 league 2022. He reached his half-century by hitting a six off Tymal Mills' bowling in the ninth over. However, he was dismissed shortly after that, as Murugan Ashwin took his wicket in the 10th over. He added 52 runs in 32 balls with six fours and two sixes in the innings. He played with a strike rate of 162.5 in the innings.
Before this innings, Agarwal had scored just 42 runs in four innings. The opener getting back to form was very important to the team as he is expected to provide them with a lot of stability at the top of the order. Meanwhile, his partner Shikhar Dhawan also scored his first half-century of the season. He added 70 runs in 50 balls, hitting five fours and three sixes.
Twitter had some great reactions to the skipper scoring his first century of the season. "Watching Mayank Agarwal play a good knock is so heartwarming," a fan wrote in a tweet.
Here are the top tweets on Mayank Agarwal's half-century
M Ashwin gets the breakthrough and Mayank Agarwal has to depart after a fine knock of 52.#IPL2022 #MIvsPBKS
— Vivek Yadav 🇮🇳 (@Vivekk47) April 13, 2022
Mayank Agarwal played captaincy knock, Punjab Kings is on top👏 #MIvsPBKS #MayankAgarwal pic.twitter.com/eoL9STWqnb
— Ashutosh Srivastava (@kingashu1008) April 13, 2022
What a kind of innings this guy smoking this ipl2022 hats off champ mayank Agarwal 🔥❤️#MayankAgarwal #PBKSvsMI #IPL2022 #Cricket
— mohanathan Dhansekaran (@Mohanathan_D) April 13, 2022
Watching Mayank Agarwal play a good knock is so heartwarming 🥰 #MIvPBKS
— Ashritha (@imashritha) April 13, 2022
Mayank Agarwal was all calm & then SKY came collecting.
There's a lot to admire about this low key #PBKS captain.#MIvsPBKS— šķw♤ (@4_Simplicity_) April 13, 2022
Well Played, Mayank!
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.#Cricket #IPL #IPL2022 #PBKSvMI #MayankAgarwal pic.twitter.com/40TpRIGOPl— Jega8 (@imBK08) April 13, 2022
Captains Innings! Well played Mayank👏#IPL #PBKSvsMI #SaddaPunjab #MIPaltan #RohitSharma𓃵 #MayankAgarwal #BCCI pic.twitter.com/ZwYJG8zDnk
— Sportz Point (@sportz_point) April 13, 2022
PBKS fans after Mayank Agarwal scored a 50 #MIvsPBKS pic.twitter.com/x5tzWxaVaK
— Vishal Deshmukh (@vishald1290) April 13, 2022