A brilliant knock from Shreyas Iyer has guided Punjab Kings to a comfortable 7-wicket victory against Lucknow Super Giants in the IPL 2026 game played at Lucknow.
He smashed his maiden IPL hundred in the game, keeping their playoff hopes high. However, their qualification heavily depends on the result of the remaining games.
After being invited to bat first, Josh Inglis and Arshin Kulkarni opened the innings while Arshdeep Singh opened the bowling attack.
Azmatullah Omarzai bagged the first wicket of Arshin Kulkarni on a golden duck. He got dismissed on the back of a length outside off delivery, where the ball gets underedged and Prabhsimran Singh picks the catch behind the wickets.
With Marco Jansen picking the wicket of Nicholas Pooran for 2 runs, LSG lost two wickets in the power play.
However, Josh Inglis and Ayush Badoni forged a decent partnership, stabilising the innings before the dismissal of the latter for 43 runs.
He got dismissed on a delivery from Yuzvendra Chahal, where Prabhsimran picked the ball and stumped with Badoni’s foot in the air.
Meanwhile, Josh Inglis scored his fifty and accelerated the innings, reviving their innings. With decent contributions from Rishabh Pant and Abdul Samad, LSG scored 196 runs in their 20-over innings.
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Chasing 197 runs, Priyansh Arya and Prabhsimran Singh opened the innings while Mohammed Shami opened the bowling attack.
With the dismissal of Arya on the first ball of the innings, Cooper Connolly joined Prabhsimran Singh before being dismissed for 18 runs.
Mohammed Shami bagged the wicket of Connolly on a fuller length at stumps, where he played a wrong shot and got bowled out.
However, Prabhsimran Singh and Shreyas Iyer revived the innings with a 140-run partnership for the third wicket.
Both smashed fifties as the side marched close towards victory. However, Arjun Tendulkar provided a crucial breakthrough, dismissing Prabhsimran Singh for 69 runs on an lbw.
Suryanash Shedge joined Shreyas Iyer to complete the chase as the former remained unbeaten with 9 runs. However, the winning runs came from Shreyas Iyer, who hit a six to complete the chase and also brought his century.
His century comes of 51 deliveries, which included 11 fours and 5 sixes. Punjab Kings secured a 7-wicket victory with 12 balls to spare.
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