LSG vs PBKS Highlights, IPL 2025: Prabhsimran, Shreyas fifties help Punjab Kings complete easy chase

LSG vs PBKS Highlights, IPL 2025: Prabhsimran, Shreyas fifties help Punjab Kings complete easy chase

Samad to bowl. Shreyas punches the first ball to short cover. Six!! Shreyas looks to loft one down the ground, manages to clear long on. Brings up his fifty and completes an easy win for Punjab Kings.

Shardul back into the attack. Two dots to start the over against Wadhera. Six!! Back of a length on the stumps, pulled over the legside for a huge six. The sounds off the bat was so sweet. Six!! Same ball, same sound, same result! Four!! Walks down the ground and punches one down the ground for four. 

Avesh back into the attack. Slower ball into the wicket, Shreyas mistimes pull towards deep midwicket for a single. Four!! Slower ball full, Shreyas lofts it over mid off for a boundary. Six!! Shreyas getting it done in quick time. Pulls one over deep midwicket for six. 

Six!! Wadhera steps down against Bishnoi and lofts him down the ground for six. Four!! A touch wider, carved through cover for a boundary. Good comeback from Bishnoi, two dot balls. Six!! Wadhera slog sweeps the last ball of the over over wide long on for six more. 

Digvesh to bowl out. Wadhera looks for the reverse sweep, loses balance and just about manages to stay within the confines of the crease. A touch shorter, pulled to deep square for a single. Four!! Shreyas with a gentle push through third man and will pick up four. Direct hit at the striker’s end after Shreyas dabs to short third for a single. Wadhera makes it in before the stumps are disturbed. Wadhera picks up a single off the last ball. 

Siddarth again. A touch short, Shreyas cuts it to point for a single. Wadhera picks up a single after playing two dots. Shreyas dabs one to deep midwicket for a single. Four from the over. 

WICKET!! Digvesh strikes again! Prabhsimran looks to loft one over the legside. Badoni pushes it away at the edge of the boundary and Bishnoi completes the relay catch. End of an excellent innings from Prabhsimran.

Prabhsimran c Ravi Bishnoi b Digvesh Rathi 69(34)

Nehal Wadhera in at 4. Carves the first ball to deep cover and comes back for the second. Looks to go big over cover, Digvesh bowls a googly that turns past the bat. Turns one to short midwicket, Shreyas says no to the single. Four!! A touch short, punched to deep cover for a boundary. 

Shardul is back. Bouncer and Shreyas was ready to pull it over fine leg for a SIX! Punjab is in full control of the chase it seems. 11 runs from that over as well. 

Siddharth. Prabhsimran comes down the track and smacks the ball straight down the ground for four. Prabhsimran switches to left hand and cuts the ball for a single. He’s been proactive. 

Bishnoi. Punjab looks in good control of the chase. Full toss and Prabhsimran reverse ramps it over keeper for four! Smart shot that. Short ball on the pads and Prabhsimran pulls towards fine leg for four. 

David Miller subbed out and M Siddarth comes in for LSG. 

Siddharth with his left arm spin, Prabhsimran reverse sweeps for four! SIX! This time Shreyas Iyer lofts the ball over covers. Lovely hit. Prabhsimran takes a single and gets to his fifty off 23 balls. 

Ravi Bishnoi into the attack. Prabhsimran slog sweeps over mid on for four! And now he plays the slog sweep behind square leg for another boundary. SIX! This time Prabhsimran goes over covers! A single to end the PowerPlay. 

Digvesh again. Prabhsimran slog sweeps and goes over square leg for four! Keeping the ball in the stumps and quick. Four! Shreyas drives towards covers to end the over.

Avesh. Prabhsimran comes down the track and smacks the ball over mid on for a six. Beautiful shot that. Using bouncers, Avesh. 10 runs from the over. 

Digvesh Rathi into the attack. Short ball and Priyansh pulls it in front of midwicket for four! Dropped! Induces an outside edge off Priyansh’s bat and the ball quickly goes towards first slip but Marsh wasn’t able to grab it. Tough chance that. OUT! Priyansh departs this time. Wanted to pull the short ball but gets a top edge straight to mid off. It was a quicker delivery. 

Shreyas Iyer in at three. Off the mark with a single. 

Avesh Khan into the attack. Another upper cut by Prabhsimran and finds the fence again. He bends and picks the ball from good length. Eight runs came in that over.

Priyansh Arya and Prabhsimran Singh open. Shardul Thakur with the new ball. Priyansh is off the mark with a single off the second delivery. Terrific cover drive by Prabhsimran. Four runs. Short ball and Prabhsimran upper cuts for a six! Single to end the over. 

Last over of the innings. Arshdeep goes for the wide yorker, Samad sweeps to midwicket for one. Short and wide outside off stump, flies over Badoni’s head. Wide. WICKET!! Badoni looks to clobber one over the legside, mistimes it and Maxwell completes a good catch in the deep. 

Ayush Badoni c Maxwell b Arshdeep Singh 41(33)

Shardul in at 8. Dabs his first ball to point for a single. WICKET!! Full and wide, Samad edges it to short third man. 

Abdul Samad c Priyansh Arya b Arshdeep Singh 27(12)

Avesh in at 9. Wide ball, Avesh scampers across for a bye after missing his waft outside off. Yorker on the stumps, Thakur slams it to long on, doesn’t take the run. Slices a full, wide ball, falls just short of the offside sweeper. Thakur picks up a couple. 

Jansen with his last over. Samad gets a single to deep midwicket. Short ball, too short, Prabhsimran has to leap up and pouch it way above his head. Another single to deep midwicket. Badoni miscues his attempted lofted shot over cover, falls in no-man’s land. A couple taken. Just eight from the over. 

Arshdeep in. Four!! Slightly wide, Badoni cuts it past short third for a boundary. Six!! Back of a length to Samad, lofts it down the ground for six. Four!! Yorker length outside off, Samad somehow manages to scoop it over the ‘keeper for a boundary. Four!! Full and wide, just a dab through point and it finds the gap for four. Single to finish the over. 20 runs from it. 

Chahal to bowl out. Badoni gets a single off the first ball. Samad punches one to wide long on for one. Six!! Badoni steps down the ground and lofts one down the ground for six. Eleven runs from the over. 

Jansen with his third over. Miller punches the first ball to long on for one. Badoni mistimes his lofted shot down the ground, falls in front of long on. WICKET!! Back of a length outside off, Miller nicks his punch back to the keeper. 

Miller c Prabhsimran b Marco Jansen 19(18)

Abdul Samad in at 7. Steps out a lofts one outside off, just beats Arshdeep at deep cover.

Maxwell back for his third. Four!! A tad short and Miller is quick to rock back and pull it to the square leg fence for four. Four!! Another short ball, pulled through midwicket for another boundary. Two dots to follow. Miller punches one to cover to get a single. 

Chahal with his third. Miller puts in a dive at the strikers, scampering across for a second after pushing one to wide mid on. Four!! Full and wide, creamed through cover for a boundary. Seven from the over. 

Ferguson back into the attack. Full on the pads, Badoni gets a single to deep square. Full, clatters into Miller’s pads but was probably going down leg. Badoni punches one to deep point for one. Miller defends a short of a length to third man for a single. Six!! Full outside off, lofted over cover for six. 100 up for LSG with that shot. 

Second over for Chahal. Single to long off to start. WICKET!! Pooran looks to go after a full, wide one. Miscues the shot and holes out to long off. 

Pooran c Maxwell b Chahal 44(30)

Miller in at 6. Full and wide, Miller punches to long off for one. Single to close out the over, just three from it. 

Stoinis with his second over. Starts off with a dot ball. Short and wide, Pooran slaps it to point for a single but is sent back. Fuller and straighter, turned to deep midwicket for a single. Badoni punches a length ball to long on for one. Six!! Short and wide to Pooran, slashes it over deep third man for six. Four!! Wide again, cut past point for a boundary. Fifty partnership up between the two.

Yuzvendra Chahal into the attack. Pooran gets width on offer and slaps the ball past point for four! He follows it up with straight hit down the ground for a six! Expensive over, 15 runs came of it. 

Marcus Stoinis into the attack. Another quiet over, just four singles of it. Runs haven’t come the way Lucknow would’ve wanted. 

Jansen. SIX! Badoni gets a short ball and pulls over fine leg. Sweetly timed. Nine runs came in that over. 

Maxwell. Pooran sweeps very fine and gets a boundary! First four for him. Another four! Short ball and Pooran pulls towards midwicket. 

Marco Jansen into the attack. He’s getting pretty good carry on this red soil track. Pooran tries to swing but misses it. A rather silent start for Pooran, and LSG. 

Glenn Maxwell into the attack. OUT! Pant is gone. Short ball, Pant sweeps straight to short fine leg. Another cheap dismissal, this time he goes for two off five balls.

Ayush Badoni in at five. He’s off the mark with a single. 

Ferguson. Four! Markram once again goes over the bowler’s head. SIX!! Markram upper cuts over the point boundary. Superb shot and power. OUT! Markram is gone. Tries to drive, gets an inside edge straight onto the stumps. Markram falls for 28 off 18 balls. 

Rishabh Pant in at four. He’s off the mark with a single. 

Arshdeep. On the pads and Markram pushes the ball towards midwicket for four! Was in the air for a while but too far from the fielder. Markram hits it straight and Arshdeep isn’t able to grab the ball. Tough chance but will count as a drop. Four! Too full and Markram lofts the ball over the bowler’s head. Another boundary, this time punched through the extra covers. 13 runs came in that over. 

Lockie Ferguson, the debutant, from the other end. Very good start for Punjab; ball gripping a bit it seems. Brilliant over, four came from it. 

Arshdeep Singh with the new ball. Aiden Markram and Mitchell Marsh open the innings. Markram on strike. He’s off the mark with a single off the third delivery. OUT! Mitchell Marsh is out of the very first ball. Tried to work the ball on the leg side but gets a leading edge. A golden duck.

Nicolas Pooran at three. He’s off the mark with a single. 

It’s a red soil pitch completely. It’s a high-scoring venue irrespective of the pitch that has been used. The dimensions are 70m and 64m square boundaries, it’s 77m down the ground. Red soil pitch tends to have more pace and bounce. This surface has an even covering of grass. There won’t be much seam movement. There could be some turn and bounce for the spinners though. There won’t be much dew, reckons Deep Dasgupta.

LSG: Prince Yadav, Manimaran Siddharth, Shahbaz Ahmed, Himmat Singh, Akash Maharaj Singh.

PBKS: Praveen Dubey, Vijaykumar Vyshak, Nehal Wadhera, Vishnu Vinod, Harpreet Brar

PBKS: Prabhsimran Singh (WK), Priyansh Arya, Shreyas Iyer (C), Shashank Singh, Marcus Stoinis, Suryansh Shedge, Glenn Maxwell, Marco Jansen, Yuzvendra Chahal, Lockie Ferguson, Arshdeep Singh

LSG: Aiden Markram, Mitchell Marsh, Nicholas Pooran, Rishabh Pant (C, WK), Ayush Badoni, Digvesh Rathi, David Miller, Abdul Samad, Avesh Khan, Shardul Thakur, Ravi Bishnoi

PBKS wins the toss and opts to bowl first. “New ground, new wicket we need to get an idea of what it will do. The effect of dew will be there later on as well. Lockie comes in,” says Shreyas 

LSG playing the same team. 

Lockie Ferguson has been handed his debut cap by the Punjab Kings ahead of the game.

Batting – Prabhsimran Singh (wk), Priyansh Arya, Shreyas Iyer (c), Shashank Singh, Marcus Stoinis, Glenn Maxwell, Suryansh Shedge, Azmatullah Omarzai, Marco Jansen, Arshdeep Singh, Yuzvendra Chahal

Bowling – Prabhsimran Singh (wk), Shreyas Iyer (c), Shashank Singh, Marcus Stoinis, Glenn Maxwell, Suryansh Shedge, Azmatullah Omarzai, Marco Jansen, Arshdeep Singh, Yuzvendra Chahal, Vijaykumar Vyshak

Impact subs – Nehal Wadhera, Praveen Dubey, Vyshak Vijaykumar/ Priyansh Arya, Harpreet Brar, Vishnu Vinod

Batting – Aiden Markram, Mitchell Marsh, Nicholas Pooran, Rishabh Pant (c & wk), David Miller, Ayush Badoni, Abdul Samad, Shardul Thakur, Ravi Bishnoi, Avesh Khan, Digvesh Rathi

Bowling – Aiden Markram, Nicholas Pooran, Rishabh Pant (c & wk), David Miller, Ayush Badoni, Abdul Samad, Shardul Thakur, Ravi Bishnoi, Avesh Khan, Digvesh Rathi, Prince Yadav

Impact subs – Shahbaz, Manimaran Siddharth, Mitchell Marsh/ Prince Yadav, Himmat Singh, Akash Maharaj Singh

Matches played: 14

Won: 7

Lost: 6

Highest score: 199/8 vs Punjab Kings (March, 2024)

Lowest score: 108 all-out vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru (May, 2023)

Lucknow Super Giants – Nicholas Pooran, Ravi Bishnoi, Mayank Yadav, Ayush Badoni, Rishabh Pant, David Miller, Aiden Markram, Mitchell Marsh, Avesh Khan, Abdul Samad, Aryan Juyal, Akash Deep, Himmat Singh, Manimaran Siddharth, Digvesh Singh, Shahbaz Ahmed, Akash Singh, Shamar Joseph, Prince Yadav, Yuvraj Chaudhary, RS Hangargekar, Arshin Kulkarni, Matthew Breetzke, Mohsin Khan

Punjab Kings – Nehal Wadhera, Harnoor Singh, Shreyas Iyer, Musheer Khan, Pyla Avinash, Prabhsimran Singh, Vishnu Vinod, Josh Inglis, Marcus Stoinis, Glenn Maxwell, Praveen Dubey, Priyansh Arya, Azmatullah Omarzai, Aaron Hardie, Marco Jansen, Harpreet Brar, Suryansh Shedge, Shashank Singh, Lockie Ferguson, Yuzvendra Chahal, Arshdeep Singh, Xavier Bartlett, Kuldeep Sen, Vijaykumar Vyshak, Yash Thakur

Matches played: 4

LSG won: 3

PBKS won: 1

Last result: LSG won by 21 runs (2024; Lucknow)

A buoyant Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) will look to kick off its IPL 2025 home campaign with a win as it hosts Punjab Kings (PBKS) at the Ekana Cricket Stadium here on Tuesday. 

LSG comes into the fixture on the back of a stunning away win against Sunrisers Hyderabad, in a game where the pre-match odds were stacked heavily against it.

Punjab Kings too has wind on its sails, having clinched a win in its season opener against Gujarat Titans in a high-scoring thriller in Ahmedabad a week ago.

The centrepiece of the Kings’ pre-match planning for Tuesday will likely be LSG’s batting talisman Nicholas Pooran, who leads the season’s Orange Cap race.

The West Indian batter has been in rampaging touch in IPL 2025, scoring 145 runs in two games at a staggering strike rate of 258.92, whipping 13 sixes and 12 fours.

Pooran’s incandescence at No.3 has been backed by opener Mitchell Marsh’s steady hand. The pair has accumulated twin fifties each to cover up for the rest of the LSG batting unit, including skipper Rishabh Pant, who has aggregated just 15 in his two innings with his new team.

– Pranay Rajiv

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