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Showing impact in bowling and batting, Punjab Kings defeated Lucknow Super Giants by 8 wickets in Indian Premier League (IPL) cricket on Tuesday. Royal Challengers are the third team after Bengaluru and Delhi Capitals to win both their opening matches of the season.
Lucknow came into bat after losing the toss and were stopped by Punjab with a score of 171-7. Punjab completed the target in 16.2 overs after Prabhasimran Singh and captain Shreyash Iyer scored half-centuries. Player of the match Singh scored 69 off 34 balls and scored his second consecutive half-century while Ayer scored an unbeaten 52 off 30 balls.
Singh hit 9 fours and 3 sixes and Airer hit 3 fours and 4 sixes. Ayer, who scored an unbeaten 97 runs in the previous match, hit the winning six when the scores were tied. Nehal Wadhera hit 3 fours and 4 sixes while scoring an unbeaten 43 off 25 balls. Priyansh was dismissed for another 8 runs. Digvesh Rathi took both the wickets for Lucknow.
Earlier, Nicholas Pooran from Lucknow scored 44 off 30 balls with 5 fours and 2 sixes, Ayush Badoni scored 41 off 33 balls with 1 four and 3 sixes, Aidan Makram scored 28 off 18 balls, David Miller scored 19 off 18 balls and Abdul Samad scored 27 off 12 balls. Michesh Marsh was out for zero and captain Rishav Pant was out for 2 runs. From Punjab, Ashardeep Singh took 3 wickets for 43 runs in 4 overs and Lucky Ferguson, Glenn Maxwell, Marco Jansen and Yuzvendra Chahal took 1 wicket each.
