IPL 2025, PBKS vs KKR Highlights: Punjab break record for lowest total ever defended, beat Kolkata by 16 runs

Punjab Kings vs Kolkata Knight Riders Live Score: The very next ball after the wicket fell. Venkatesh Iyer sweeps the first ball he faced to long leg, Bartlett runs to his left, picks the ball up cleanly, shapes up to throw it but then it just slips out of his hands while he was loading it up. The ball just bounces to the boundary. To make matters worse, that is deemed as four overthrows and the batters had run a single there. Wow.

KKR 68/3 at the end of that over, need 44 to win from 72 balls

Punjab Kings vs Kolkata Knight Riders Live Score: Rahane tries to slog sweep the fourth ball of the eighth over, takes the ball on his back leg. The umpire raises the finger even before PBKS finish their appeal. Rahane walks initially, then has a little chat with Raghuvanshi before continuing the walk.

Rahane lbw b Chahal 17 (17)

KKR 62/3 in 7.4 overs

Punjab Kings vs Kolkata Knight Riders live Score: Possibility of a PBKS win goes down by half with that over. Bartlett bowls the last over of the powerplay, his first ball is full and straight and Rahane plays that lovely lofted straight drive to perfection. The ball goes over the bowler's head for a six. Rahane gets off strike third ball and Raghuvanshi tonks the fourth ball over deep midwicket for a six. Two runs off the next ball and the last is driven between extra cover and mid off for a four.

Raghuvanshi on 31 off 18, Rahane on 13 off 10.

KKR 55/2 in 6 overs

Punjab Kings vs Kolkata Knight Riders Live Score: Bartlett returns for the fourth over, two singles off the third and fourth balls and then Rahane plays the last ball off his legs, Shashank runs to his right from long leg but ends up making a meal of it, the ball spins away from him and reaches the boundary.

KKR are going at just 6.50 runs an over but their required rate is only 5.37.

KKR 26/2 in 4 overs

PBKS vs KKR IPL Live Score 2025, Punjab Kings vs Kolkata Knight Riders: KKR still are well ahead in this game but you wouldn't guess it listening to that crowd. Jansen returns for the third, Angkrish Raghuvanshi beaten first ball. Then he meets the second with a square drive, the ball races through point to the boundary. Raghuvanshi gives the charge third ball and it goes over cover point, back to back boundaries. That is all the runs that come from that over though.

KKR 20/2 in 3 overs

PBKS vs KKR IPL Live Score 2025, Punjab Kings vs Kolkata Knight Riders: There was a big shout for LBW from Bartlett and the whole stadium in Mullanpur first ball of the second over. The umpire shook his head but the crowd erupts again the very next ball when QDK is caught at long leg. Could it be? It couldn't, could it?

de Kock c Suryansh Shedge b Bartlett 2 (4)

KKR 7/2 in 1.2 overs

PBKS vs KKR IPL Live Score 2025, Punjab Kings vs Kolkata Knight Riders: Top of off, found with precision. Jansen went short, full, short with the last three balls of the first over to Narine, conceded four off the fifth ball and gets him off the last. He angled it into the batter from over the wicket, Narine swipes across the line and misses. The off bail goes off but the leg bail is in place. Just listen to that crowd! They are behind their team all right.

Narine b Jansen 5 (4)

KKR 7/1 in 1 over

PBKS vs KKR IPL Live Score 2025, Punjab Kings vs Kolkata Knight Riders: Quinton de Kock is on strike, Sunil Narine at the other end. Marco Jansen has the ball in his hands. KKR would be chasing some sweet NRR nectar here and therein lies PBKS's opening as well.

PBKS vs KKR IPL Live Score 2025, Punjab Kings vs Kolkata Knight Riders: Well that is one way to rub it in. Varun Chakravarthy makes it clear that this is a very, very good wicket to bat on and moreover, he felt a slight bit of dew coming in towards the end. "I felt good bowling today and it is definitely not a 110 wicket, more of a 180 wicket. Their openers got to a good start, but all credit to Harshit Rana for the way he bowled in the opening spell. I can't be more happier playing with him (Sunil Narine), I am happy that I am in the same side as him. I have been working back-of-the-hand leg spin and I tried both (front and back of the hand) today and it came out decently well. When I bowled my 3rd and 4th over, the ball was skidding so much and it is 190 wicket. There is slight dew and as you can see, they (the groundstaff) are trying to remove the dew," he said.

PBKS vs KKR IPL Live Score 2025, Punjab Kings vs Kolkata Knight Riders: Well PBKS made a meal of this innings overall and ends with Arshdeep and Bartlett making a meal of running between the wickets. Bartlett swings the third ball of that over from Arora towards long on, he wanted the second. Arshdeep seemed completely oblivious and feebly walks down the pitch before half-heartedly asking his partner to go back. Venkatesh Iyer, picks the ball up and throws it at the non-striker's end and Arora whips off the bail with Bartlett nowhere in the picture.

Bartlett run out (Iyer/Arora) 11 (15)

PBKS 111 all out in 15.3 overs

PBKS vs KKR IPL Live Score 2025, Punjab Kings vs Kolkata Knight Riders: Arora appeals for LBW first ball of the 16th and it is given! Shashank reviews straightaway but then slams his bat onto his pads, indicating that he knows he is gone. No bat on it, the ball was coming into him and he was moving foward and across to play it leg side. Arora hit him just below the knee roll on the front pad and it is three reds on ball-tracking.

Shashank lbw b Arora 18 (17)

PBKS 109/9 in 15.1 overs

PBKS vs KKR IPL Live Score 2025, Punjab Kings vs Kolkata Knight Riders: Nortje returns for his third over, Shashank gets off strike second ball and then Bartlett swings at the fourth ball with everything he has got, it takes an edge and soars over the wicketkeeper for a four.

PBKS 109/8 in 15 overs

PBKS vs KKR IPL Live Score 2025, Punjab Kings vs Kolkata Knight Riders: Varun Chakravarthy bowls out in the 14th over. Debutant Bartlett takes a single second ball and then Shashank tonks the third over extra cover for a six. Three more singles after that. It all depends on whether Shashank Singh can play a miraculous knock here or not.

PBKS 104/8 in 14 overs

PBKS vs KKR IPL Live Score 2025, Punjab Kings vs Kolkata Knight Riders: Eight wickets down in the 11th over. And well, Marco Jansen has himself to blame for this. He steps out of his crease last ball of the 11th and tries to flick it leg side but the ball was full. And so ends up yorking himself, the ball goes through him and takes his leg stump. Questionable shot selection, to put it mildly.

Jansen b Narine 1 (2)

PBKS 86/8 in 11 overs

PBKS vs KKR IPL Live Score 2025, Punjab Kings vs Kolkata Knight Riders: This has been some bowling effort from KKR and Punjab Kings have been looked as ready for it as a house of cards in a storm. Suyansh Shegde brought in as a batting Impact Sub for Prabhsimran Singh but he fails to make any impact really. He tries to cut the first ball of the 11th over from Narine, thick edge and De Kock takes a brilliant catch from point blank range.

Shedge c de Kock b Narine 4 (4)

PBKS 80/7 in 10.1 overs

PBKS vs KKR IPL Live Score 2025, Punjab Kings vs Kolkata Knight Riders: Bowled him all ends up! This was a wrong' un, pitched on a good length outside off and spun in to the right hander. Maxwell comes forward and then looks completely lost, brings the back down and well, it didn't matter what he did with the willow because he has missed it entirely and the ball takes the stumps.

Maxwell b Varun 7 (10)

PBKS 76/6 in 9.1 overs

PBKS vs KKR IPL Live Score 2025, Punjab Kings vs Kolkata Knight Riders: PBKS have lost half their batting lineup inside the first nine overs! Wadhera hits fours off the second and third balls and perishes off the fourth. He shapes up for the pull shot but Nortje cramps him up, the ball goes up in the air and Venkatesh Iyer runs in from long leg to pluck it.

Wadhera c Iyer b Nortje 10 (9)

PBKS 74/5 in 8.4 overs

PBKS vs KKR IPL Live Score 2025, Punjab Kings vs Kolkata Knight Riders: Sunil Narine bowls the first over after the powerplay, Nehal Wadhera on strike and he gets off strike first ball. Glenn Maxwell, desperately seeking runs, dabs the fourth off his pads to square leg and the batters run two. Maxwell takes another run off the last ball.

Punjab Kings 58/4 in 7 overs

PBKS vs KKR IPL Live Score 2025, Punjab Kings vs Kolkata Knight Riders: Prabhsimran falls last over of the powerplay and Punjab Kings have lost as many as four early on! Prabhsimran hits sixes off the third and fourth balls, the rest have all been dots. The last ball is short of a length somewhere around off stump. Prabhsimran cuts despite being cramped for room. It goes straight into the hands of Ramandeep Singh at point.

Prabhsimran Singh c Ramandeep Singh b Harshit Rana 30 (15)

PBKS 54/4 in 6 overs

PBKS vs KKR IPL Live Score 2025, Punjab Kings vs Kolkata Knight Riders: Varun Chakravarthy strikes in his first over and for once, PBKS are having a bad powerplay. He goes for a big slog sweep fifth ball of the over, misses it altogether and the ball takes the stumps. Varun doesn't even bother celebrating there.

Inglis b Varun 2 (6)

PBKS 42/3 in 5 overs

PBKS vs KKR IPL Live Score 2025, Punjab Kings vs Kolkata Knight Riders: Harshit Rana with two huge wickets in the fourth over. Once again, a shord and wide delivery from Rana, one that would be put away for a boundary more often than not. Iyer cuts it in the air, Ramandeep runs in from deep third and dives forward to complete a simply marvelous catch.

Iyer c Ramandeep Singh b Harshit Rana 0 (2)

PBKS 39/2 in 3.4 overs

PBKS vs KKR IPL Live Score 2025, Punjab Kings vs Kolkata Knight Riders: Harshit Rana with the breakthrough for KKR. Well that wasn't the greatest of deliveries from Rana, length delivery outside leg. Arya tries to flick it away but doesn't put enough power in it. The fielder at long leg as an easy catch.

Arya c Ramandeep Singh b Harshit Rana 22 (12)

PBKS 39/1 in 3.2 overs

PBKS vs KKR IPL Live Score 2025, Punjab Kings vs Kolkata Knight Riders: Now Prabhsimran gets into the act.

PBKS vs KKR IPL Live Score 2025, Punjab Kings vs Kolkata Knight Riders: Anrich Nortje concedes nine runs in his first over of this IPL. Prabhsimran gets off strike third ball and then Arya sends the fourth over extra cover. It goes to the boundary for a four. Arya is then beaten by the bounce fifth ball before sending the last of the over over the fielder at mid-on for another four. He is on 11 off eight, Prabhsimran on two off four.

PBKS 13/0 in 2 overs

PBKS vs KKR IPL Live Score 2025, Punjab Kings vs Kolkata Knight Riders: Arya takes a single off the fourth ball to get himself and PBKS off the mark. Prabhsimran gets off the mark first ball and then Arya miscues a pull down the ground last ball. Thankfully for him, the ball lands well beyond the cover fielder and the batters run two.

PBKS vs KKR IPL Live Score 2025, Punjab Kings vs Kolkata Knight Riders: Arora to Arya to start this contest. Vaibhav Arora has the ball in his hands, Priyansh Arya facing up with Prabhsmran Singh at the other end.

PBKS vs KKR IPL Live Score 2025, Punjab Kings vs Kolkata Knight Riders: Ajinkya Rahane said at the toss that he was looking to bowl first and so, strangely enough, both captains happy with the outcome in the end. Iyer have finally brought in Anrich Nortje for the first time this season, with the South African replacing Moeen Ali in the lineup. PBKS have left out Marcus Stoinis and the injured Lockie Ferguson and brought in Josh Inglis and debutant Xavier Bartlett.

PBKS vs KKR IPL Live Score 2025, Punjab Kings vs Kolkata Knight Riders: Priyansh Arya, Prabhsimran Singh(w), Shreyas Iyer(c), Nehal Wadhera, Josh Inglis, Shashank Singh, Glenn Maxwell, Marco Jansen, Xavier Bartlett, Arshdeep Singh, Yuzvendra Chahal

Impact Subs: Manish Pandey, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Rovman Powell, Luvnith Sisodia, Anukul Roy

PBKS vs KKR IPL Live Score 2025, Punjab Kings vs Kolkata Knight Riders: Kolkata Knight Riders (Playing XI): Quinton de Kock(w), Sunil Narine, Ajinkya Rahane(c), Venkatesh Iyer, Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Ramandeep Singh, Harshit Rana, Vaibhav Arora, Anrich Nortje, Varun Chakaravarthy

Impact Subs: Vijaykumar Vyshak, Suryansh Shedge, Yash Thakur, Harpreet Brar, Praveen Dubey

PBKS vs KKR IPL Live Score 2025, Punjab Kings vs Kolkata Knight Riders: All right here is Shreyas Iyer for PBKS and Ajinkya Rahane for KKR. Javagal Srinath is the match referee. Iyer tosses it up and Rahane calls it wrong. PBKS are batting first.

PBKS vs KKR IPL Live Score 2025, Punjab Kings vs Kolkata Knight Riders: Punjab Kings broke a colossal T20 record. KKR batted first and blasted an astonishing 261 runs for the loss of six wickets. The opening stand between Phil Salt and Sunil Narine alone produced 138 runs in 62 balls. Well, PBKS actually went and chased it down with opener Jonny Bairstow smashing an unbeaten 108 in 48 balls. It remains the highest succesfull chase of all time in the history of T20 cricket.

PBKS vs KKR IPL Live Score 2025, Punjab Kings vs Kolkata Knight Riders: Two matches have been played thus far this season in Muilanpur and there were 200-plus totals batting first in both those games. Each time, the team batting first went on to successfully defend it. Don't rule out a big total on Tuesday, when temperatures are expected to slide to 27 degrees Celsius in the evening after rising to 38 degrees in the morning.

PBKS vs KKR IPL Live Score 2025, Punjab Kings vs Kolkata Knight Riders: Shreyas Iyer was announced as the ICC's men's player of the month a few minutes back. The award has been given mainly for his extraordinary performance in the Champions Trophy. Life in cricket is rather nice at the moment for Shreyas Iyer.

PBKS vs KKR IPL Live Score 2025, Punjab Kings vs Kolkata Knight Riders: Yuzvendra Chahal has bowled 15 overs thus far this season at an average of 83.50 and economy rate of 11.13. Which is not even close to what he usually does in the IPL. In fact, Chahal has taken at least 18 wickets every season between 2019 and 2024 but he has just two to his name this year.

PBKS vs KKR IPL Live Score 2025, Punjab Kings vs Kolkata Knight Riders: KKR are yet to give a game to South Africa speedster Anrich Nortje. Is this the game where finally the Proteas quick will get a chance?

Only time will tell.

PBKS vs KKR IPL Live Score 2025, Punjab Kings vs Kolkata Knight Riders: Sunil Narine, Varun Chakravarthy and Co. have formed quite a potent spin battery for KKR. They have the best average (20.62) and the best economy (6.73) among all teams in this IPL. PBKS' spinners, on the other hand, have the highest average (54.4), highest economy (10.46) and the highest strike rate (31.2)

PBKS vs KKR IPL Live Score 2025, Punjab Kings vs Kolkata Knight Riders:s Glenn Maxwell has failed to get going with the bat in the ongoing IPL.

While speaking on Cricbuzz, Simon Doull asked Shreyas Iyer and coach Ricky Ponting to drop Maxwell as enough chances have been given to him.

PBKS vs KKR IPL Live Score 2025, Punjab Kings vs Kolkata Knight Riders: Shreyas Iyer looked a little lost for words at the end of Punjab's previous match. One can't really blame him, how in the world are you supposed to react to losing a T20 match by eight wickets with nine balls to spare despite setting a target of 246

PBKS vs KKR IPL Live Score 2025, Punjab Kings vs Kolkata Knight Riders: Andre Russell hasn't been given too many overs this season but that might not be the case today. That's because Russell has a good record against Shreyas Iyer and Marcus Stoinis. Iyer has fallen five times in nine innings to Russell while Stoinis has been dismissed thrice in five innings.

PBKS vs KKR IPL Live Score 2025, Punjab Kings vs Kolkata Knight Riders: Sunil Narine has faced PBKS in 25 matches and taken 34 wickets against them with an average of 20.02 and economy of 7.02. He has also scored 251 runs against them with two half-centuries. Needless to say, he does like facing PBKS.