Punjab Kings won 37 runs over Lucknow super veterans in their IPL 2025 game in Dharmasala on Sunday. Jeet helped PBK get two spots in the table and to move second with 15 points out of 11 matches. Kolkata Knight Riders also won a narrow one run over Rajasthan Royals during the day and came to sixth position with 11 marks for their credit for several matches. Royal Challengers Bangalore Batter Virat Kohli continued the orange cap with 505 runs in 11 matches, while Paer Prasad Krishna of Titans in Gujarat also holds a purple cap with 19 wickets out of 10 games.
Rishabh Pant was again struggling for a lower score as his Lucknow Super veteran slipped for a fourth defeat in five IPL games, losing to Punjab Kings by 37 runs on Sunday.
Opener Prabasimran Singh scored 91 off 48 balls to pursue Punjab from 236–5, which was helped by several influential cameos in Dharmasala in another house of Kings.
Arshdeep Singh then returned the brilliant figures of 3-16 as Lucknow could only make 199-7 in response. Another failure for Pant India Star fell for 17 balls 18.
No flow was found during his stay despite killing Pant, two fours and a six trimmed by LSG for a record price of $ 3.21 million in the November auction.
The wicketkeeper-batsman has scored only 128 runs out of 10 innings this season.
The Lucknow table has three games with four points outside the seventh, fourth and final play-off spots.
After the seventh win of the campaign, Royal Challengers of Punjab leaders finished second behind Bangalore.
Left-Arm Seemar Arshdeep was never in chasing Lucknow after sending Mitchell Marsh twice in his second over, for a duck, and then to Aiden Markram to 13.
Pants dismissed the dangerous Nicolas Gud for six before trying to rebuild a scratch in an innings of Afghanistan’s all -rounder Azmatullah Omrajai.
Omarjai soon sent David Miller back to 11 and put Lucknow in further trouble at 73-5.
Ayush Badoni, who scored the top with 74, and Abdul Samad, who hit 45, put it on a brave stand of 81, but could only reduce the gap of defeat.
Earlier, Australia’s Josh Englandis, who launched a quick 30 hammer, and Prabhasimran laid the foundation in total with a total of 48 wicket partnership of 48 in Punjab.
After the departure of Inglis, captain Shreyas Iyer took charge and earned 45 in 78 partnership with Prabasimron, who survived the catches dropped by Garin at 21.
Leg-spinner Digvesh Rathi denied Prabhasimran a century, but Shashank Singh, who hit an unbeaten 33 and Marcus Stoinis, who did not exclude 15 balls, ended Punjab firmly.
(With AFP input)
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