Punjab Kings Beat Gujarat Titans: In the 5th match of IPL, Punjab Kings defeated Gujarat Titans by 11 runs in a thrilling match. Punjab Kings, batting first, gave a huge target of 244 runs to Gujarat Titans. In response, Gujarat started a brilliant start and despite being such a big goal, he reached close to victory. But that 15th over of Vyshak Vijay Kumar proved to be the turning point of the match. Let us tell you 3 major reasons for the defeat of Gujarat Titans against Punjab Kings.

15th and 16th over overturned

After 14 overs, the score of Gujarat Titans was 169/2. The team needed 75 runs in 36 balls to win. But then Vaishakh Vijay Kumar, who came to put the 15th over and gave just 5 runs. After this, the 16th over was also in favor of Punjab Kings. In this over, Marco Jansen gave just 8 runs. After these two overs, the Gujarat Titans team went backward.

21 consecutive dots balls in the final overs

Sherfen Rutherford, who came as an impact player, scored 46 runs in 28 balls but played 8 balls in it. Playing so many balls at important time became a major reason for the defeat of Gujarat Titans. Let us tell you that Rutherford hit a six off the fourth ball of the 14th over, after which the next boundary came on the second ball of the 18th over. That is, a total of 21 legal balls did not come in the middle. A total of 25 balls were kept without a boundary.

Vaishakh Vijay Kumar’s spell was turning point

Gujarat Titans batsmen were playing other bowlers of Punjab Kings comfortably, but Vaishakh Vijay Kumar, who came as an impact player, overturned the dice. In the 15th over, he conceded only 5 runs, after which the pressure on Gujarat increased. Vaishakh scored brilliant wide yorker balls, he conceded 34 runs in his 3 overs.

Shreyas Iyer becomes Player of the Match

Punjab Kings captain Shreyas Iyer was voted the best player of the match. He scored an unbeaten 97 in 42 balls. After the match, he also praised Shashk Singh’s innings, who made a significant contribution in reaching the team’s score to 243 by scoring an unbeaten 44 in 16 balls. At the same time, Priyansh Arya, who played his IPL debut match, also gave the team a great start by playing an innings of 47 runs in 23 balls.

Chasing the target, Sai Sudarshan played a wonderful innings of 74 runs in 41 balls, in this innings he hit 6 sixes and 5 fours. Gill scored 33 in 14 balls and Jose Butler scored 54 runs in 33 balls. Sherfen Rutherford scored 46 runs in 28 balls with the help of 3 sixes and 4 fours.

Glenn maxwell was not out: Glenn Maxwell’s IPL has not started well in 2025. He was out ‘Golden Duck’ in the first match of Punjab Kings. He was lbw out by Gujarat Titans spin bowler Sai Kishore. However, if he had taken DRS, he would have survived, because he was not out. At the same time, captain Shreyas Iyer, standing at the other end, also did not ask Maxwell for a review, while Maxwell spoke to him about it.

Glenn Maxwell came to the crease after Azmatullah Omarzai was dismissed. On the fourth ball of 10 overs, Sai Kishore took 2 wickets in 2 consecutive balls by dismissing Maxwell. Maxwell could not understand this ball and the ball went straight to the pad. When the appeal was made, the umpire called him out. Returning to Maxwell Pavilion, Shreyas stopped to talk to Iyer, asked and decided not to take a review. However, later it was shown on the screen that the ball was going from above, missing the wicket. That is, if DRS was taken, Maxwell would remain out.

Ball was missing the stumps, Glenn Maxwell Didn Bollywood. pic.twitter.com/qv4qdoonrr

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Maxwell became the batsman out of ‘zero’ in IPL

Glenn Maxwell’s name recorded an embarrassing record in the IPL. He has become the most often batsman to be dismissed on zero in the IPL. He has been dismissed on zero a total of 19 times. Mumbai Indians player Rohit Sharma and former RCB player Dinesh Karthik are second and third in this list respectively. Both have been dismissed 18-18 times in IPL. Rohit Sharma was dismissed on zero in his first match of IPL 2025.