The Punjab Kings recorded a 37 -point victory on Lucknow’s Super Giants in their 2025 IPL match in Dharamsala on Sunday. The victory helped PBKs to win two places in the table and move to the second position with 15 points of 11 matches. Kolkata Knight Riders also recorded a narrow victory suddenly on the Royals of Rajasthan earlier in the day and reached sixth place with 11 points on their credit as many matches. The Royal Challengers Bengaluru Batter Virat Kohli continue to have the orange cap with 505 points in 11 games, while the Gujarat Titans Prasidh Krishna stimulator also holds the purple cap with 19 counters of 10 games.
Rishabh Pant again had a hard time when his Lucknow Super Giants team collapsed at a fourth defeat in five IPL games, losing 37 points against the Kings of Punjab on Sunday.
The opener Prabhsimran Singh struck 91 balls on 48 balls to direct the Punjab at 236-5, helped by several impressive cameos at the second Kings house in Dharamsala.
Arshdeep Singh then returned brilliant figures of 3-16 because LuckNow could only do 199-7 in response. Pant fell in love with a 17-ball 18 in another failure for the star of India.
Pant, which was taken by LSG for a record price of 3.21 million dollars at November auction, could not find any control of his stay despite the fact that two and a six.
The Guichet-Bar goalkeeper has gathered only 128 points of 10 rounds this season.
Lucknow is seated seventh in the table, four points outside the fourth and last match place with three games to play.
The Punjab climbed second in the leaders Royal Challengers Bengaluru after their seventh campaign victory.
Lucknow was never in their prosecution after the designer of the left arm Arshdeep hit twice in the space of four balls during his second to send Mitchell Marsh, for a duck, then Aiden Markram, for 13.
He rejected the dangerous Nicholas Pooran for six before Pant tried to rebuild in a rough round which was finished by Azmatullah Omarzai, Azmatullah Omarzai.
Omarzai quickly returned David Miller for 11 to put Lucknow in addition to 73-5 difficulties.
Ayush Badoni, who obtained a better score with 74, and Abdul Samad, who struck 45 years old, put a valiant stand by 81 but could only reduce the margin of defeat.
Earlier, Josh Inglis in Australia, who hammered a rapid 30, and Prabhsimran laid the foundations of the total imposing Punjab with a second window partnership of 48.
The skipper Shreyas Iyer took care after the departure of Inglis and made 45 in partnership of 78 with Prabhsimran, which survived an abandoned takeover of Pooran at 21 years.
The Leg Spinner, Digvezh Rathi, denied Prabhsimran a century, but Shashank Singh, who struck a 33 undefeated, and Marcus Stoinis, who did 15 not on five balls, made sure that the Punjab ended strongly.
(With AFP entries)
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