PBKS vs LSG IPL 2025 Highlights: PBKS thrash LSG by 37 runs

PBKS vs LSG IPL 2025 Score, Punjab Kings vs Lucknow Super Giants: We are getting to see why PBKS have the best strike rate among all teams this season. Even a relatively quiet over in the middle phase has gone for a two-digit score. Two singles and a two off the first three balls of the eighth in which Akash bowls out. Then Shreyas Iyer somehow works the fourth ball over mid on despite being cramped for room and it goes for four runs. Two more singles to finish that over.

Iyer on 17 off 10, Prabhsimran on 37 off 20.

PBKS 85/2 in 8 overs

PBKS vs LSG IPL 2025 Score, Punjab Kings vs Lucknow Super Giants: It was turning out to be a good over to close off the powerplay by Avesh, until Prabhsimran sent the last ball, back of a length outside off, back over the bowler's head for a majestic four.

He is on 29 off 15 balls, captain Shreyas Iyer at the other end on six off three.

PBKS 66/2 in 6 overs

PBKS vs LSG IPL 2025 Score, Punjab Kings vs Lucknow Super Giants: Akash Singh the wicket-taker once again. Akash with a slower ball dug into the surface for the third delivery of the fifth over. Inglish takes a big swing at it, doesn't quite get the distance he was looking for. David Miller is at the deep midwicket fence. He moves a few steps back to take the catch and then stops just short of the boundary.

Inglis c Miller b Akash Singh 30 (14)

PBKS 50/2 in 4.3 overs

PBKS vs LSG IPL 2025 Score, Punjab Kings vs Lucknow Super Giants: Mayank Yadav has been ripped to shreds here in his first two overs.

PBKS vs LSG IPL 2025 Score, Punjab Kings vs Lucknow Super Giants: Well Akash Singh continues to keep it tight at the other end. Inglis swings and misses first two balls, then he sets off for a single that never was there! Prabhsimran hasn't moved a centimetre and a direct hit from midwicket by Pooran would've been the end of the story for Inglis. Then he hits the fourth ball just out of reach for Pooran and takes a single. Prabhsimran takes a single as well fifth ball.

PBKS 28/1 in 3 overs

PBKS vs LSG IPL 2025 Score, Punjab Kings vs Lucknow Super Giants: Wow, that wicket doesn't really matter at all any more. Inglis replaces Arya and hits the first ball he faced for a four off Akash. Prabhsimran gets off strike first ball of the second over bowled by Mayank Yadav, and then Inglis blasts the second delivery he is facing in this match over square leg for a six. The third ball is belted over midwicket for another six. Inglis then smashes the fourth ball over deep midwicket where Avesh Khan for some reason was standing miles inside the boundary. Because of that the ball evades him and goes for six. Mayank digs the fifth one in, Inglis misses a pull and that makes this the first ball that he couldn't hit to the boundary in this innings. He keeps strike with a single last ball. Inglis went 4, 6, 6, 6 off his first four balls and sits on 23 off six balls. Who wants to be a bowler in this day and age.

PBKS 26/1 in 2 overs

PBKS vs LSG IPL 2025 Live Updates, Punjab Kings vs Lucknow Super Giants: "Akki" has sent back PBKS's most potent weapon in the very first over of the match! Length delivery for the fifth ball, moving away from him. Arya is done by that late swing, it goes straight to deep backward point.

Priyansh Arya c Mayank b Akash Singh 1 (4)

PBKS 2/1 in 0.5 overs

PBKS vs LSG IPL 2025 Live Updates, Punjab Kings vs Lucknow Super Giants: All right then, time for some cricket in the Himalayas. Priyansh Arya facing up to Akash Singh, who has got “Akki” written on his shirt instead of his actual name. What's the IPL without a bit of funk, eh?

PBKS vs LSG IPL 2025 Live Updates, Punjab Kings vs Lucknow Super Giants: Here is what the two captains said...

Rishabh Pant: We will bowl first. We feel it is a bowling first. We don't know how it is going to play. Looks like, it will stop a bit. Little loose on the top. Still, a good wicket. It is going to be a good match. Bowling first we will have the advantage and see how the game unfolds and that's the kinda of advantage we were looking to have. Just trying to be simple more often. You want people to have conversation when you are losing. Good to see youngsters stepping in.

Shreyas Iyer: We would have bowled first as well. The wicket was covered for a while and it was pouring yesterday and the day before. It was under the sheets and you know the moisture it adopts to. The grass is thicker. I don't want to predict how the wicket is going to be. We are up for the competition. You gotta to take positives from the game. You can't dwell on how bad you have done in a particular game. It haunts you every now and then. We need to be in high spirits and keep motivating each other and see to it that we are enjoying each other's success. That's the culture and camaraderie in the team. Just keeping things simple. I know it is tough but that's the mantra. Stoinis comes in.

PBKS vs LSG IPL 2025 Live Updates, Punjab Kings vs Lucknow Super Giants: Well, well, well, we just saw an all-time classic at the Eden Gardens. KKR have kept themselves floating in the race for the playoffs with a one-run win that was decided off the last ball of the match! Absolute stunner of a game. Follow live here. “What a game!” says Andre Russell to the camera amid the celebrations on the ground with big smile on his face.

PBKS vs LSG IPL 2025 Live Updates, Punjab Kings vs Lucknow Super Giants: Priyansh Arya, Prabhsimran Singh, Shreyas Iyer(c), Josh Inglis(w), Shashank Singh, Nehal Wadhera, Marcus Stoinis, Azmatullah Omarzai, Marco Jansen, Yuzvendra Chahal, Arshdeep Singh

Impact Subs: Vijaykumar Vyshak, Harpreet Brar, Praveen Dubey, Suryansh Shedge, Xavier Bartlett

PBKS vs LSG IPL 2025 Live Updates, Punjab Kings vs Lucknow Super Giants: Aiden Markram, Nicholas Pooran, Rishabh Pant(w/c), Abdul Samad, Ayush Badoni, David Miller, Akash Maharaj Singh, Digvesh Singh Rathi, Avesh Khan, Mayank Yadav, Prince Yadav

Impact Subs: Ravi Bishnoi, Mitchell Marsh, Himmat Singh, Matthew Breetzke, Shahbaz Ahmed

PBKS vs LSG IPL 2025 Live Updates, Punjab Kings vs Lucknow Super Giants: Shreyas Iyer spins the coin, Rishabh Pant calls it right and says that LSG are bowling first.

PBKS vs LSG IPL 2025 Live Updates, Punjab Kings vs Lucknow Super Giants: PBKS have played two games here in each of the past two seasons. They lost to DC by 15 runs in the first one in 2023, then to RR by 44 the same here. Then they lost to CSK by 28 runs and to RCB by 60 in 2024.

PBKS vs LSG IPL 2025 Live Updates, Punjab Kings vs Lucknow Super Giants: Riyan Parag is pulling off something quite special. RR were tottering at 71/5 in the eighth over chasing a target of 207. Well, about seven overs later, they haven't lost a wicket since and are in pole position to win this all thanks to their stand-in skipper Parag. Follow live here.

PBKS vs LSG IPL 2025 Live Updates, Punjab Kings vs Lucknow Super Giants: Well, if the PBKS top order fire the way they usually do, that should be the case. The question really is what LSG can do. Mitchell Marsh and Nicholas Pooran have been the only ones who could match the consistency exhibited by the PBKS top 3 today and LSG would need much more than just contributions from two batters if they fail to keep opposition's batters down.

PBKS vs LSG IPL 2025 Live Updates, Punjab Kings vs Lucknow Super Giants: Rishabh Pant has always been quite defiant about his record in limited overs cricket, particularly in T20s. He had spoken a few years back about how too much is being made of his curiously poor run in the shortest format despite excelling with an attacking style batting in Tests and that he will get better as he gets older and more experienced. This season, Pant had said after their defeat to MI on April 27 that questioning an "individual" is "not the right thing to do".

"See [I am] keeping it very simple," Pant said after the game. "Not thinking about that [his form] too much because in a season like this, where things are not going your way, you're going to start questioning yourself as a player and that is something you don't want to do.

"When the team isn't doing well, you've got to think about that because eventually it's a team game. Yes, one player definitely makes a difference, but every time if you take out the individual, it's not the right thing to do, I guess."

PBKS vs LSG IPL 2025 Live Updates, Punjab Kings vs Lucknow Super Giants:To say it has been a season to forget for Rishabh Pant as a batter is an understatement. In fact, it is quite remarkable that LSG are sitting sixth and very much in the race for the playoffs despite their captain struggling to buy a run. He has scored a mere 110 runs in nine innings. He struck those few runs at just 98.21 and averages 12.22.

PBKS vs LSG IPL 2025 Live Updates, Punjab Kings vs Lucknow Super Giants: Punjab Kings have lost all four matches they've played in Dharamsala since 2023. As stated earlier, Arshdeep Singh has struggled to get going at this venue. While this would mean that one of PBKS's most potent weapons goes limp, it is especially the case against LSG since Arshdeep has an excellent record against LSG's openers Aiden Markram and Mitchell Marsh. He has dismissed Markram four times in 13 meetings and has got Marsh out twice in four meetings.

PBKS vs LSG IPL 2025 Live Updates, Punjab Kings vs Lucknow Super Giants: Arshdeep Singh doesn't have the greatest of records at Dharamsala

PBKS vs LSG IPL 2025 Live Updates, Punjab Kings vs Lucknow Super Giants: Punjab Kings have looked remarkedly assured and balanced this season, something that arguably cannot be said for any previous version of this side that has competed in the IPL since its inception. A key ingredient behind this marked improvement is a batting lineup that has found a way to score at an extraordinary strike rate consistently. PBKS have a strike rate of 180.13, which is the best for any team in a single edition of the IPL

PBKS vs LSG IPL 2025 Live Updates, Punjab Kings vs Lucknow Super Giants: There was talk of Yuzvendra Chahal's magic fading away in his new colours. He had taken just wickets in his first five matches at an economy rate of 11.1. Well, he has shown that magic is permanent and it is only form that's temporary. Since then, Chahal has 11 wickets in the last four matches at an economy rate of 7.6. This includes four wickets in his last match against CSK, for which he was kept away for a long time after bowling two overs in the first 10 and then returned to pick a hat-trick in the 19th over.PBKS vs LSG IPL 2025 Live Updates, Punjab Kings vs Lucknow Super Giants:

PBKS vs LSG IPL 2025 Live Updates, Punjab Kings vs Lucknow Super Giants: Nicholas Pooran has stayed quite potent against spinners. He has struck at 264 against them all season long. However, he has been dismissed by fast bowlers in his last four games, thrice by deliveries that have been angled in and once by Mitchell Starc's slower short ball. For this, and if there is some movement, PBKS might bring in Xavier Bartlett.

PBKS vs LSG IPL 2025 Live Updates, Punjab Kings vs Lucknow Super Giants: Nicholas Pooran's utterly astonishing run of form was among the big talking points in the first half of the league stage. Well, things haven't quite gone as swimmingly for the Trinidadian ever since. In his first six matches of this IPL, Pooran scored 349 runs at an average of 69.8 with a strike rate of 215.43, with four fifties. However, he has only 55 runs in the last four matches at an average of 13.75 and a strike rate of 148.64, with a highest of 27

PBKS vs LSG IPL 2025 Live Updates, Punjab Kings vs Lucknow Super Giants: Mitchell Marsh, Aiden Markram, Nicholas Pooran, Rishabh Pant(w/c), Ayush Badoni, David Miller, Abdul Samad, Ravi Bishnoi, Avesh Khan, Prince Yadav, Digvesh Singh Rathi, Mayank Yadav, Yuvraj Chaudhary, Shahbaz Ahmed, Himmat Singh, Akash Maharaj Singh, Matthew Breetzke, Shardul Thakur, Manimaran Siddharth, Aryan Juyal, RS Hangargekar, Akash Deep, Shamar Joseph, Arshin Kulkarni