IPL 2025: In the match played on Tuesday, Punjab Kings defeated Lucknow Super Giants by 8 wickets. Punjab captain Shreyas Iyer won the toss and decided to bowl first. Lucknow Super Giants could not start well on their home ground. The team’s third wicket as Rishabh Pant fell on a score of 35. Pant flopped in the third consecutive match, he was caught out at a score of just 2. After this, he is also being criticized a lot, because he was bought by the team for Rs 27 crore.

Lucknow Super Giants scored 171 runs while batting first. In response, Punjab Kings won by 8 wickets by achieving the target in 16.2 overs. Opener Prabhasimran Singh played a brilliant innings of 69. In this innings played in 34 balls, he hit 3 sixes and 9 fours. Shreyas Iyer scored an unbeaten 52 in 30 balls and Nehal Wadhera scored 43 not out. Lucknow captain Rishabh Pant said after the match that our team was able to score 20 to 25 runs. However, the way Punjab batted, it seemed that if there were 40-50 more, the team would have achieved that goal too.

What did Rishabh Pant say after the match

After the defeat, Lucknow captain Rishabh Pant said, “This score was not enough, we are left behind 20-25 runs. It is a part of the game, it was our first match on the domestic field, so we are still assessing the situation. Surely when you lose the starting wicket, it is always difficult to make a big score. It is a domestic game, it was going to be a little stopping when you were bowling slowly.

Statement Victory
Skipper’s second 5⃣0⃣ this season
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This was the second win of Punjab Kings under the captaincy of Shreyas Iyer. After winning 2 matches in 2, the team has come second in the points table. At the same time, Lucknow Super Giants have slipped from number three to sixth place. This was the second defeat in the third match of Lucknow.