LSG vs PBKS, IPL 2023 Highlights: Raza half century, Shahrukh finish helps Punjab beat Lucknow by 2 wickets

Two tight doubles off the first two balls and then Shahrukh crashes one to the long on boundary to win the game with a four. That chase was anchored by Raza and finished by Shahrukh. LSG will feel that they were at least 15 runs short of what would be par on this pitch, lots of eyes on Rahul's strike rate once again, but this has been an expert showing from PBKS against a relentless LSG bowling attack. 

Ravi Bishnoi is bowling this, Shahrukh Khan is on strike. This continues to be PBKS's game as long as he is facing and not Rabada.

Not one for the faint-hearted this game. Brar has nicked it to the keeper and the stadium finds its voice again. PBKS need 7 off 7, Rabada has to face Wood for one delivery.

Top edge but Mark Wood's pace and Shahrukh Khan's power takes the ball all the way past the boundary behind the keeper. PBKS need 12 to win off 10!

Pressure has done the trick. Just 2 runs off the first four balls and Raza ends up targetting the big boundary. He is caught at deep backward square leg.

Raza c Stoinis b Ravi Bishnoi 57 (41), PBKS 139/7 in 17.5 overs

Another barn burner here. Sikandar Raza, who hit a four off the last ball of the previous over, is on 57 off 39, Shahrukh Khan is on 7 off 2.

Kaboom, take that! Shahrukh Khan walks out and chooses violence. In the slot outside off, Shahrukh clears his front foot and smashes that ball miles over long on. PBKS 128/6 in 16 overs, need 32 off 24 balls

Oh that is a contender for catch of the tournament! Jitesh hits Wood towards mid-off, doesn't quite middle it and KL Rahul is there at that position. He dives low to his left and takes it in the air. Gets up and salutes the crowd.

Jitesh Sharma c Rahul b Wood 2 (4), PBKS 122/6 in 15.5 overs, need 38 runs in 25 balls. 

It has come in 34 balls. Sikandar Raza pretty much the lone warrior for PBKS, Jitesh Sharma is there at the other end but he is quite new.

PBKS need 40 to win off 27. Raza hits it between deep square leg and fine leg off Wood. He has done one-man shows a number of times in red in international cricket for Zimbabwe. Now he is doing it for Punjab Kings.

Ravi Bishnoi strikes in his first over, of course he does. Curran looking to go downtown, ends up putting it straight down the throat of Krunal Pandya at long off.

Sam Curran c Pandya b Ravi Bishnoi 6 (6), PBKS 112/5 in 14.3 overs

Once again, Yudhvir having to dive to try and save this but the ball goes to the boundary anyhow. That's 6, 6, 4 off the second, third and fourth balls of the 13th.

Sikandar Raza making Yudhvir Singh jump and prance about at the boundary. First he had actually made the catch but ended up stepping on the boundary. Then the third ball is hit in the same direction, this time Yudhvir jumps and tries to slap the ball back in while in the air. Valiant effort but it's six nonetheless.

Harpreet Singh c Yudhvir Singh b Pandya 22 (22), PBKS 75/4 in 11 overs

Raza taps it right back to the bowler calls for a single. Then he screams for him to run back and Harpreet is caught in no man's land. Gowtham collects the ball after running a little to the right and has an easy throw to dismiss the non-striker but he makes a total meal of it. Harpreet survives.

Sikandar Raza is on four off seven, Harpreet Singh is on 10 off 12. They need 107 off 72 balls.

Full delivery angled across the batter, Short doesn't really go through with the shot and ends up chipping it right into the hands of mid-off. He probably would have gone over him had he gone through with that shot.

Short c Stoinis b Gowtham 34 (22), PBKS 45/3 in 6 overs

As had been the case in the previous match, Matthew Short is the only one who has managed to get going here among the PBKS batters. Doesn't matter how well your bowlers do, if the batters can't score there is no way PBKS can win any game.

Yudhvir Singh brought back to bowl his third and this time, he is welcomed with two back to back fours by Matt Short. First one is hammered over midwicket and the second is cracked past cover-point.

Prabhsimran had hit the first ball of the third for four and then Yudhvir comes back with a full one that sharply jags back into the right hander after pitching, Prabhsimran misses it entirely and the off pole goes cartwheeling

Prabhsimran Singh b Yudhvir Singh 4 (4), PBKS 17/2 in 2.2 overs.

A duck on debut is what Taide got, Yudhvir gets a wicket in the first over on his LSG debut. Contrasting debut fortunes here but it is a good start for LSG. 

Rahul Chahar has been taken off for Prabhsimran Singh as an impact sub for PBKS. He opens with Atharva Taide of Vidarbha. Yudhvir Singh opens the bowling.

“The ball was following me a lot today but good I managed to pull off (those catches). Before the game, Sam told me that he would be using me (tall fielders) on the shorter boundary. The wicket looked a bit dry. Now, the dew has come in and Sam told me that the ball is skidding on really well. The ball got wet in the last two overs and it could help us. I think if we bat smartly in the first six overs, and then, it is about applying ourselves in the middle overs.”

What a spell from Sam Curran on his debut as captain in the IPL, and in any kind of top level professional cricket. He didn't get any wickets but gave away just seven runs in that last over, thus ending with figures of 3/31. None of LSG's big hitters were able to get going and KL Rahul's half century did not help his team too much. 160 is still a good target to defend though.