Points Table IPL 2025: Kolkata Knight Riders had a score of 62/2, only 50 runs were needed to win and the balls were left 75 but Punjab Kings bowlers snatched the match from KKR’s hand. Punjab Kings have joined the Top 4 in the points table, while the defeat of Kolkata Knight Riders has damaged 2 teams. Know who has the Orange Cap and Purple Cap after this match and who are the top 5 players in its race.

For Punjab Kings, Priyansh Arya and Prabhasimran Singh shared 39 runs in 20 balls for the first wicket. Then it was felt that the wicket was good for batting, because this season had scored more than 200 scores here 3 times before. Its behavior was different on Tuesday, the wickets of Punjab Kings batsmen were shocked and the entire team was reduced to 111 runs. Harshit Rana took 3, Sunil Narayan and Varun Chakraborty took 2-2 wickets.

The Kolkata Knight Riders’ 2 wickets fell on the score of 7 but after that the 55 -run partnership between Ajinkya Rahane (17) and Angris Raghuvanshi (37) felt that KKR would register an easy win. But this did not happen and the next 8 wickets fell within 33 runs. Punjab Kings won this match by 16 runs. This is the lowest total in IPL history, which has been defended by the team.

IPL 2025 Points Table: What changed in points table

After this match, Punjab Kings have come from sixth to fourth place. Right now he has won 4 out of 6 matches and its net run rate is +0.172. While the loss of defeat of Kolkata Knight Riders has also been lost to Lucknow Super Giants. The LSG is out of the top 4, she came to number five from fourth. KKR was at number five before the match, now it has come at number six. This was KKR’s fourth defeat in 7 matches. Ajinkya Rahane & Team’s net run rate is +0.547 with 6 points.

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IPL Orange Cap 2025: Orange Cap

After the PBKS vs KKR match, Orange Cap is with Nicholas Puran, player of Lucknow Super Giants. He has scored 357 runs in 7 innings. See the top 5 batsmen who score the most runs in the list.

1. Nicholas Puran (LSG)- 357
2. Sai Sudarshan (GT)- 329
3. Michelle Marsh (LSG)- 295
4. Shreyas Iyer (PBKS)- 250
5. Virat Kohli (RCB)- 248

IPL Purple Cap 2025: Purple Cap

The Purple Cap is with Noor Ahmed, spinner of Chennai Super Kings. His name currently has 12 wickets in 7 matches in the IPL. See the top 5 bowlers involved in the race for Purple Cap in the list.

1. Noor Ahmed (CSK)- 12
2. Khalil Ahmed (CSK)- 11
3. Shardul Thakur (LSG)- 11
4. Kuldeep Yadav (DC)- 10
5. Famous Krishna (GT)- 10

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Pbks vs kkr highlights IPL 2025 Match 31: Punjab Kings have defeated Kolkata Knight Riders by 16 runs. What is the thrill, the audience who came to the ground of Mullanpur today must have been aware of it. In this match, Punjab team was all out for just 111 runs while playing first. In response, KKR’s team could score only 95 runs. Usually, high-scoring matches are seen on this ground, but the bowling unit of Punjab despite being a small target, rescued the sweat of the batsmen of Kolkata.

KKR started chasing a target of 112 runs. By the score of 7 runs, both openers were out. Quinton de Kock was dismissed by 2 runs and Sunil Naren only 5 runs. In this low-scoring match, Angaksh Raghuvanshi and captain Ajinkya Rahane shared a 55-run shared and raised the hope of KKR’s victory. Raghuvanshi was the top scorer of Kolkata in the match, whose bat scored 37 runs. Rahane on the other hand scored 17 runs.

5 wickets fell within seven runs

KKR chased the target of 112 runs and scored 72 runs at the loss of 3 wickets at one time. After this, the process started with the dismissal of Angkrish Raghuvanshi did not stop and the Kolkata team fell 5 wickets within just seven runs. During this, the wickets of Venkatesh Iyer, Rinku Singh, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Ramandeep Singh and Harshit Rana fell. Venkatesh was expected to score only 7 runs and when Rinku Singh was expected to score big, he was dismissed for just 2 runs.

Chakravyuh of Yuzvendra Chahal

Yuzvendra Chahal was the biggest contribution in the bad condition of KKR’s team. He took four important wickets for just 28 runs in 4 overs. Chahal turned the match towards Punjab by taking the wicket of Ajinkya Rahane and especially Angkrish Raghuvanshi. Apart from this, he also took the wicket of Rinku Singh and Ramandeep Singh.

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Pbks vs kkr toss winner: Punjab Kings have won the toss and have chosen the first batting. When Punjab captain Shreyas Iyer was asked about the playing XI, he forgot about his last 11 players. On the other hand, the captain of Kolkata expressed happiness that he got to bowl first even after losing the toss. Kolkata Knight Riders have included Moin Ali in the playing XI by sitting outside Moin Ali.

Playing XI forgot Shreyas Iyer

It is usually the identity of Rohit Sharma to forget things in the cricket world. But in IPL 2025, such an incident has happened with Shreyas Iyer. At the time of the toss in the match against KKR, Punjab captain Shreyas won the toss and chose the first batting. When asked about the playing XI, Iyer said, “I don’t remember the team right now, I will tell you later.”

Kkr happy even after losing the toss

Kolkata Knight Riders captain Ajinkya Rahane said that he wanted to bowl first on this ground. He said, “We wanted to bowl here. The toss is something that you cannot keep under your control. We have such a batting line-up that can chase any target.

Punjab King’s playing XI: Priyansh Arya, Prabhasimran Singh, Shreyas Iyer (Captain), Nehal Vadhera, Josh English, Shashank Singh, Glenn Maxwell, Marco Jansen, Xavier Bartlet, Arshdeep Singh, Yuzvendra Chahal

KKR’s playing XI: Quinton de Kock, Sunil Naren, Ajinkya Rahane (captain), Venkatesh Iyer, Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Ramandeep Singh, Harshit Rana, Vaibhav Arora, Enrich Nortje, Varun Chakraborty

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