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LSG 199/7 (Over 20): Comfortable win for PBKS. The target was always going to test this LSG lineup and once the top-three went cheaply to Arshdeep it was always going to be even more hard. PBKS completed the job to garner two crucial points and move to the 2nd spot on the table.
LSG 188/6 (Over 19): 49 needed off just 6 and Yuzi Chahal will bowl the final over!
LSG 154/6 (Over 16.4): End of a stand! Marco Jansen doesn't disappoint and dismisses Samad with a fine catch. The 81-run stand between Samad and Badoni, second highest for sixth wicket or below for LSG in IPL comes to an end.
LSG 143/5 (Over 17): Abdul Samad (42 off 20) and Ayush Badoni (42 off 25) keep LSG in the hunt of a win.
LSG 74/5 (Over 10): David Miller lost his wicket to Azmatullah Omarzai on a similar shot, trying to hit the deep cover boundary for a maximum, only to find the fielder well before the rope.
LSG 58/4 (Over 7.5): Rishabh Pant lost the grip of his bat completely while trying to hit Azmatullah Omarzai over the off side for a maximum, only to find Shashank Singh at deep cover, signalling an end to his innings after scoring 18 runs in 17 balls.
LSG 38/3 (Over 6): PBKS have put a stranglehold on LSG innings with Rishabh Pant and Ayush Badoni at the crease, needing a further 199 runs in just 14 overs.
LSG 27/3 (Over 4.3): Arshdeep Singh traps Nicholas Pooran in front of the wicket for six runs, putting LSG in deep trouble in pursuit of 237-run target.
LSG 16/2 (Over 2.5): Mitchell Marsh goes back into the pavilion after a five-ball duck, getting dismissed by Arshdeep Singh before he got his opening partner Aiden Markram for 13 runs in 10 balls in the same over.
LSG 3/0 (Over 1): Arshdeep Singh bowled a fantastic first over, giving away only three runs to Aiden Markram and Mitchell Marsh.
PBKS 236/5 (Over 20): Marcus Stoinis and Shashank Singh end the PBKS innings perfectly with a 16-run over, to propel their total well above par in their first match of the IPL 2025 season at their second home in Dharamshala.
PBKS 216/5 (Over 18.5): Digvesh Rathi dismisses Prabhsimran Singh on 91 off 48 with six fours and seven sixes, to deny him a hundred.
PBKS 212/4 (Over 18): Shashank Singh and Prabhsimran Singh collect 26 runs in Avesh Khan over, to keep pushing the envelope in the PBKS innings at the HPCA Stadium.
PBKS 162/4 (Over 15.2): Prince Yadav cleans up Nehal Wadhera against the run of play, who had scored a fiery 16 off just nine with two fours and a maximum.
PBKS 128/3 (Over 12.2): Digvesh Rathi takes big wicket of Shreyas Iyer for 45 runs in 24 balls, to break the third wicket parternship of 78 runs with Prabhsimran Singh.
PBKS 107/1 (Over 10.4): Prabhsimran Singh reaches his fifty with a crisp boundary on the bowling of Mayank Yadav, who has proven to be quite expensive for LSG.
PBKS 100/2 (Over 10): The two in-form batters of PBKS have put their team in a very position at the halfway stage of the innings with some fluent srrokeplay.
PBKS 66/2 (Over 6): Prabhsimran Singh and Shreyas Iyer ensured PBKS didn't lose any more wickets in the power play stage.
PBKS 50/2 (Over 4.3): Akash Singh takes his second wicket on the night, getting the dangerous Josh Inglis for 30 runs, which were scored in just 14 balls.
PBKS 25/1 (Over 1.4): Josh Inglis hits three consecutive sixes off Mayank Yadav to get off to a flyer at the start of his innings.
PBKS 2/1 (Over 0.5): Akash Singh dismissed in-form Priyansh Arya cheaply in his first match of IPL 2025 season, to provide LSG a perfect start at home.
Toss: Rishabh Pant, the captain of Lucknow Super Giants (LSG), won the toss and decided to bowl first against Punjab Kings (PBKS) in the match 54th of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025 at the Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association (HPCA) Stadium in Dharamshala. Marcus Stoinis returned to PBKS playing XI, while LSG have made no changes.
