PBKS vs LSG Highlights: In the thrilling match 54 of this season of IPL 2025, Punjab Kings defeated Lucknow Super Giants by 37 runs, taking a six-run lead to second place in the points table of this season. In yesterday’s match, after losing the toss at their home ground, Punjab Kings came out to bat first. In which, thanks to the explosive innings of 91 runs off 48 balls by PBKS top-order batsman Prabhsimran Singh, PBKS scored a total of 236 runs at the loss of 5 wickets.
Due to the change in the condition and surface of the pitch due to the rain before the PBKS vs LSG match, there was a worrying atmosphere for the team batting first, but the PBKS batsmen easily changed that worrying atmosphere with their brilliant performance.
PBKS vs LSG Highlights: Prabhsimran Singh’s Explosive Innings Destroyed LSG Bowlers
Prabhsimran started the match positively from the PBKS team, after one of his catches was dropped, he played an explosive innings by hitting 6 fours and 7 sixes, in which he played an explosive innings of 91 runs in 48 balls. Due to this brilliant innings, he reached the seventh position in the Orange Cap list of IPL 2025 by scoring a total of 437 runs in his 11 matches at a strike rate of 170.04.
Later Punjab Kings captain Shreyas Iyer played a brilliant innings of 45 runs in 25 balls, Josh Inglis contributed 30 runs in 14 balls and PBKS star batsman Shashank Singh played an unbeaten innings of 33* runs in 15 balls. On the other hand, Marcus Stoinis played an explosive innings of 15* off 5 balls in the death overs to take his team’s score to 236 runs. LSG bowlers were seen struggling under pressure against Punjab Kings batsmen. LSG’s Mayank Yadav gave his worst performance in this season of IPL by giving a total of 60 runs in four overs, on the other hand Avesh Khan also showed a poor performance.
LSG’s initial performance was very poor while chasing the target of 237. Once again their top order has failed to chase the target. Because Punjab Kings fast bowler Arshdeep Singh bowled match-winning bowling in the powerplay, in which he dismissed top order batsmen like Mitchell Marsh and Nicholas Pooran, Aiden Markram and reduced the LSG score to 27/3 like this.
LSG Lost Despite A Brilliant Partnership Of 81 Runs Between Ayush Badoni And Abdul Samad
After him, LSG captain Rishabh Pant came to bat and he could contribute only 18 runs to his team. But later came the explosive batsman Ayush Badoni, who played a strong innings of 74 runs in just 40 balls and supporting him Abdul Samad also played a brilliant innings of 45 runs in 24 balls and both of them made a tremendous partnership of 81 runs but they were far away from the target.
PBKS’s Azmatullah Umarzai and Marco Jensen slowed down the scoring pace by taking valuable wickets in the middle overs of the match and LSG finally managed to score a total of 199 runs at the loss of 7 wickets and suffered their sixth defeat of this season.
