Punjab Kings Beat Lucknow Super Giants by 37 Runs

Samira Vishwas

Tezzbuzz|05-05-2025

Punjab Kings secured a 37-run victory in the IPL 2025 game against Lucknow Super Giants on May 04 at HPCA Stadium, Dharamsala.

With this win, PBKS went on to secure the second spot in the IPL 2025 Points table with 15 points.

Batting First, Priyansh Arya and Prabhsimran Singh opened their innings for Punjab Kings, while Akash Maharaj opened the bowling attack. However, Priyansh Arya and Josh Inglis were dismissed for 1 and 30 runs by Akash Maharaj.

Shreyas Iyer joined Prabhsimran and scored 66 runs in the powerplay. Iyer and Prabhsimran made a solid partnership for the third wicket. However, Digvesh Rathi went on to dismiss Shreyas Iyer for 45 runs, which included 4 fours and 2 sixes.

Meanwhile, Prabhsimran Singh slammed fifty and his master class strokes have helped the side to set a 237-target for Lucknow in Sunday’s clash.

Nehal Wadhera scored 16 runs before being dismissed by Prince Yadav. Prabhsimran went on to continue his onslaught, scoring 91 runs off 48 deliveries which included 6 fours and 7 sixes.

With cameos from Shashank Singh and Marcus Stoinis for 33* and 15* respectively Punjab Kings went on score 236/5 in their 20 over innings.

In the pursuit of chasing 237 runs, Aiden Markram and Mitchell Marsh went on to open the innings, while Arshdeep Singh opened the bowling attack.

With Arshdeep Singh dismissed the top order cheaply within the powerplay, Lucknow Super Giants went on to score only 38 runs in the powerplay.

After the dismissal of Rishabh Pant for 18 runs, Ayush Badoni levelled the innings scoring 74 runs off 40 deliveries. Meanwhile David Miller went on to score 11 and lost his wicket to Azmatullah.

A cameo from Abdul Samad (45) and Avesh Khan (19) weren’t able to help Lucknow from suffering a 37 run defeat.

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