{"id":153633,"date":"2026-04-10T15:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T20:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/?p=153633"},"modified":"2026-04-10T15:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T20:36:08","slug":"ipl-2026-shashank-singh-plays-down-pbkss-poor-record-against-srh-backs-bowlers-to-come-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/?p=153633","title":{"rendered":"IPL 2026: Shashank Singh plays down PBKS\u2019s poor record against SRH, backs bowlers to come good"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"content-body-70847862\" itemprop=\"articleBody\">\u201cOur bowling unit wants to dominate not only tomorrow\u2019s [Saturday] match but also all the upcoming matches.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This one line from Punjab Kings batter Shashank Singh easily conveys the confidence the team has in its bowling line-up, which next faces the batting might of Sunrisers Hyderabad in the Indian Premier League (IPL).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are backing our strength. The present situation is that our bowlers are playing very well. Their batting order is very good, but we have a very good attack with the likes of Xavier Bartlett, Arshdeep Singh and Marco Jansen in our ranks. So, we will prefer to think about our strengths and not theirs,\u201d Shashank said during the pre-match press conference here on Friday.<\/p>\n<p><b>READ  |  <a href=\"https:\/\/sportstar.thehindu.com\/cricket\/ipl\/pbks-vs-srh-ipl-2026-punjab-kings-sunrisers-hyderabad-abhishek-sharma-shreyas-iyer-latest-news\/article70847443.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Batting units in the spotlight as Punjab Kings and Sunrisers Hyderabad meet<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>PBKS used up 19.1 overs and seven wickets while chasing down 163 against Gujarat Titans the last time it played at the Maharaja Yadavindra Singh Stadium. The hosts come into this contest without a great record, both at this ground (4-7) and against their opponent (7-17).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t think about stats. Right now, we are looking at trying to impress each other in our team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t have the best of records in home conditions over the past couple of years. But again, we could have won the first match convincingly this season. We made some mistakes in the middle overs, which led to that game going down to the wire\u2026 as humans, you make errors and learn from them. In a way, it was good that the first match challenged us,\u201d Shashank added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"publish-time\" id=\"end-of-article\">Published on Apr 10, 2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/sportstar.thehindu.com\/cricket\/ipl\/ipl-2026-pbks-vs-srh-match-shashank-singh-punjab-kings-vs-sunrisers-hyderabad-stats-news\/article70847862.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cOur bowling unit wants to dominate not only tomorrow\u2019s [Saturday] match but also all the upcoming matches.\u201d This one line from Punjab Kings batter Shashank Singh easily conveys the confidence the team has in its bowling line-up, which next faces the batting might of Sunrisers Hyderabad in the Indian Premier League (IPL). \u201cWe are backing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":153634,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/hahs.jpg","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgnRh4-DXX","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=153633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/153634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=153633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=153633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=153633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}