Punjab Kings vs Lucknow Super Giants: Punjab Kings (PBKS) gave a crushing defeat to Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) by 87 runs in the 29th match of IPL 2026. In this match played at Maharaja Yadvinder Singh International Cricket Stadium, New Chandigarh, Punjab first scored a big score while batting and then registered victory by performing brilliantly in bowling. Punjab Kings won this match by 54 runs.
Punjab Kings put a big score on the board
In the match, Lucknow Super Giants won the toss and decided to bowl first, but Punjab Kings made a stormy start. Opener Priyansh Arya played a explosive inning of 93 runs in just 37 balls, which included 4 fours and 9 sixes. His strike rate remained above 251. During this, Cooper Connolly also provided amazing support along with Priyansh and scored 87 runs on 46 balls. There was a tremendous partnership of 182 runs between the two for the second wicket. After this, Marcus Stoinis scored 29 runs and Shashank Singh scored 17 runs, taking the team’s score to 254 runs.
Lucknow team could score only 200 runs
Lucknow Super Giants had a good start while chasing the target, but wickets kept falling continuously. Rishabh Pant scored 43 runs in 23 balls, while Mitchell Marsh contributed 40 runs and Ayush Badoni contributed 35 runs. Aiden Markram also played an inning of 42 runs, but the team could score only 200 runs at the loss of 5 wickets in 20 overs and lost the match by 54 runs.
Marco Yanson took 2 wickets in the bowling of Punjab Kings. Whereas, Arshdeep Singh, Yuzvendra Chahal and Vijaykumar Vyasak got 1 wicket each. For Lucknow, Prince Yadav and Manimaran Siddharth took 2 wickets each, but the rest of the bowlers could not do anything special, which became the difference between victory and defeat in this match.
Punjab Kings opened the claws of victory
This is the 5th win of Punjab Kings this season. He has played a total of 6 matches, out of which 1 match was canceled due to rain. That means Punjab has not lost even a single match so far this season. That is the only team which is still invincible. At the same time, Lucknow has faced its fourth defeat in the season. She has been able to win only 2 out of 6 matches.
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