LSG vs PBKS IPL 2025 Highlights: Shreyas Iyer scores 2nd fifty in a row, Punjab smash Lucknow out of Lucknow

Lucknow Super Giants vs Punjab Kings, IPL 2025 LIVE Score: Iyer gets a second consecutive half-century all right. What a shot to end an incredible chase. PBKS have knocked off a target of 172 like it was 102. Iyer finishes unbeaten on 52 off 30, Wadhera on 43 off 25. Their partnership stands unbeaten on 67 in 37 balls. What an incredible start to life Iyer is having as PBKS captain. He is yet to be dismissed after two innings, scoring 97 in the first and 52 in the second. LSG never really looked capable of mounting a challenge today. The only times when they looked slightly ahead was probably when Nicholas Pooran was playing. Even Badoni and Samad's incredible carnage came too late.

Lucknow Super Giants vs Punjab Kings, IPL 2025 LIVE Score: And at this crucial juncture, the umpire calls for a "strategic timeout". This is one of those moments when corporate speak rings utterly hollow in a sporting sense but then well, you had to call this break something, right? Wadhera gives Thakur an absolute hiding. The bowler goes marginally short on middle third ball of the 16th, Wadhera sends it over deep midwicket for six. Then he smashes the fourth ball over backward square leg for another six. The third ball is blasted back past the bowler for a four and the scores are level. Wadhera dabs the last ball to backward point for a dot ball which allows for a timeout to come. Enjoy the ads!

PBKS 171/2 in 16 overs

Lucknow Super Giants vs Punjab Kings, IPL 2025 LIVE Score: Shreyas smashes the fourth ball of the 15th by Avesh over mid off for a one bounce four and then tonks the last one over deep midwicket for a six. He is on 46 off 28, Wadhera on 27 off 19.

PBKS need 17 to win from 30

They are 155/2 in 15 overs

Lucknow Super Giants vs Punjab Kings, IPL 2025 LIVE Score: That is how far behind LSG are in this game. Iyer on 30 off 20 balls, Nehal Wadhera is in as Impact player and he has scored eight in nine. Rathi will bowl out in the 13th over.

Lucknow Super Giants vs Punjab Kings, IPL 2025 LIVE Score: What a catch! Digvesh Rathi returns for the 11th over, his first delivery is a length ball outside off. Prabhsimran goes for a big haymaker across the line, trying to hit the ball over deep midwicket. Badoni is the man on the boundary, he takes the catch but then throws it away as his movement takes him beyond the boundary. Bishnoi had run in from deep square leg, he dives and catches the ball on the full. Incredible work there.

Prabhsimran Singh c Ravi Bishnoi b Rathi 69 (34)

PBKS 110/2 in 10.1 overs

Lucknow Super Giants vs Punjab Kings, IPL 2025 LIVE Score: Prabhsimran has raced to 50 in just 23 balls. LSG need a bit of a dramatic collapse to happen here, Prabhsimran and Shreyas Iyer are just cruising along at the moment

PBKS 78/1 in 7 overs

Lucknow Super Giants vs Punjab Kings, IPL 2025 LIVE Score: Well that wicket and celebration from Rathi hasn't really done them too much good has it. Bishnoi bowls the last over of powerplay, the second ball is sent back over the bowler's head for four. Then he sweeps the third past backward square leg for another four and the third ball is smashed over extra cover for a six. Single off the last ball and Prabhsimran is on 45 off 20. Iyer on eight off seven.

PBKS 62/1 in 6 overs

Lucknow Super Giants vs Punjab Kings, IPL 2025 LIVE Score: Well, what is the story here? Rathi runs right up to Arya as the latter walks off. He touches shoulders with him and enacts writing his name off. Arya doesn't react at all; it almost looks like he didn't even notice all that. But sure enough, the umpire has a word with Rathi after that. Arya and Rathi are teammates for Delhi in domestic cricket, so this is quite strange. Pretty sure LSG will be slap bang at the bottom of that Fairplay Award table for a while now. Arya tries to go big down the ground, ends up skying it and Thakur takes a good catch running in from mid on.

Arya c Thakur b Rathi 8 (9)

PBKS 26/1 in 2.5 overs

Lucknow Super Giants vs Punjab Kings, IPL 2025 LIVE Score: Arya takes a single off the second ball and then Prabhsimran gets off the mark by sending a volley away to the boundary with a sumptuous extra cover drive. Then Prabhsimran sends the fifth ball over short third man for a six. Single last ball and he is on 11 off four.

Lucknow Super Giants vs Punjab Kings, IPL 2025 LIVE Score: Shardul Thakur is opening the bowling for LSG. Priyansh Arya on strike with Prabhsimran Singh at the other end for PBKS. They need to chase down a target of 172. Here we go!

Lucknow Super Giants vs Punjab Kings, IPL 2025 LIVE Score: Arshdeep not hesitant to be his own harsh critic. “I mean that was pretty average on a wicket which was providing help to seam bowlers. In the powerplay, it was stopping a bit and movement was also there, we could have hit the lengths more. Nowadays, the batters don’t trust their defence much, they swing hard so I had two slips and a deep cover, just in case he swings and gets an edge, so I was attacking with two slips. I feel it’s a good total, we have to bat well to chase it down,” he said.

Lucknow Super Giants vs Punjab Kings, IPL 2025 LIVE Score: Both Samad and Badoni fall in that last over but LSG would be happy with this score considering the start they had.

Lucknow Super Giants vs Punjab Kings, IPL 2025 LIVE Score: Well Samad and Badoni have done a really good job here for LSG and given them something to fight fore. Samad on strike to Arshdeep for the last over, he has scored 26 in 10 balls, Badoni on 41 in 32 balls.

LSG 164/5 in 19 overs

Lucknow Super Giants vs Punjab Kings, IPL 2025 LIVE Score: Abdul Samad had scored 22 off eight balls in the last game, he has now raced to 23 off seven. And he has taken Arshdeep Singh of all people to the cleaners. Badoni hits the first ball between backward point and short third for a four. He takes a single and then Samad smashes the third ball over long on for six. The third is a full toss outside off, Samad somehow reaches out and plays a scoop from there, sending it over the wicketkeeper's head for four. A shot that will make you tear up any cricket textbook. Then he sends the fifth ball to short third for another four and finishes the over with a single.

Lucknow Super Giants vs Punjab Kings, IPL 2025 LIVE Score: Edged and gone! Jansen bowls the fifth ball of the 16th over back of a length in that channel outside off. Miller takes a swipe at it, takes a feather top edge and goes to Prabhsimran. Every time it looks like things are going well for LSG, they lose a wicket.

Miller c Prabhsimran Singh b Jansen 19 (18)

LSG 119/5 in 15.5 overs

Lucknow Super Giants vs Punjab Kings, IPL 2025 LIVE Score: Miller and Badoni are keeping LSG floating but LSG are really on the edge here. The fall of one more wicket could practically shave off about 20 runs from their final total. Miller is on 18 off 15, Badoni on 22 off 21.

LSG 117/4 in 15 overs

Lucknow Super Giants vs Punjab Kings, IPL 2025 LIVE Score: Ferguson returns for the 13th over, his last ball is on a length outside off; Badoni just nudges it over extra cover with impeccable timing for six runs. He has moved to 22 off 20, David Miller is at the other end on two off four.

LSG 101/4 in 13 overs

IPL 2025, LSG vs PBKS LIVE, Lucknow Super Giants vs Punjab Kings: Yuzvendra Chahal has the last laugh. Chahal tosses up the third ball of the 12th outside off stump, Pooran goes for a shot straight back over the bowler's head but it is a googly and the ball spins away from him. The ball goes up in the air and Maxwell makes no mistake at long off.

Pooran c Maxwell b Chahal 44 (30)

LSG 89/3 in 11.3 overs

IPL 2025, LSG vs PBKS LIVE, Lucknow Super Giants vs Punjab Kings: PBKS must be starting to grow weary of Pooran now. Pooran cuts the first ball of the 10th over past extra cover for a four. Then he absolutely scorches the turf through point for four off the third ball. The fourth is blasted back over Chahal's head for a six. How about this from Pooran, he has raced to 33 off 23 now.

LSG 76/3 in 10 overs

IPL 2025, LSG vs PBKS LIVE, Lucknow Super Giants vs Punjab Kings: And Darren Ganga says that Pooran's brilliant technique comes despite the fact that he hasn't played too many first class matches, unlike the other big names from the West Indies.

IPL 2025, LSG vs PBKS LIVE, Lucknow Super Giants vs Punjab Kings: Just 39 runs in the powerplay for the loss of three wickets. It doesn't get much worse than that for a team in T20 cricket. The heartening thing for them is that they have two players who can accelarate. Pooran is a bona fide threat, as long as he is there, a comeback is always on the cards. Ayush Badoni has shown that in the past what he is capable of. For now, both in single digits. Pooran on five off nine, Badoni on two off three.

IPL 2025, LSG vs PBKS LIVE, Lucknow Super Giants vs Punjab Kings: Well this is quite reminiscent of that moment in Australia that led to Sunil Gavaskar famously saying the word "stupid" thrice. Glenn Maxwell bowling the fifth over, his fifth ball is a half-tracker down leg. The kind of ball that for most batters is a gift. It was for Pant as well and he responds by giving a return gift. Pant gets down on his knees and finds the one fielder behind him leg side at short third man to perfection. Chahal was standing there for exactly that shot and Pant just spoons it to him. Natural game, right? What can one do? Ayush Badoni replaces him with Nicholas Pooran at the other end.

LSG 36/3 in 5 overs

IPL 2025, LSG vs PBKS LIVE, Lucknow Super Giants vs Punjab Kings: All right, here is LSG's new captain. A duck on debut, 15 in the next match. What can he do here. Markram was knocked over by Ferguson right after he hit that six, with the stumps being blasted away as he tried to hit the fifth ball over cover. Pant is off the mark first ball that he faces with a single.

IPL 2025, LSG vs PBKS LIVE, Lucknow Super Giants vs Punjab Kings: Sunil Gavaskar is all praise for Aiden Markram as the South African starts making it look like a powerplay is actually in progress here. He hit three fours off the third over by Arshdeep and notably, got a little life when the bowler himself dropped him off the third ball. Ferguson continues in the fourth, and Markram smashes the third ball right back over the bowler's head. The next ball is flayed over point for a six.

LSG are 32/1 in 3.4 overs all of a sudden

IPL 2025, LSG vs PBKS LIVE, Lucknow Super Giants vs Punjab Kings: They've jacked Marcus Stoinis up with the hot mic for the first 15 mins of this game. He reckons that the wicket's "all right". He says in between fielding and giving Ferguson words of encouragements that a good score should depend on how this powerplay goes. He wants it to be a situation where the spinners can come later and keep them under pressure, hopefully keep it down to 180-170.

Lockie Ferguson, meanwhile, has done well in his first over, just four runs in it.

LSG 7/1 in 2 overs