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Welcome to Sportstar’s live coverage of the IPL 2025 match between Punjab Kings and Rajasthan Royals at the Mullanpur Stadium in Chandigarh. This is Anish Pathiyil and Sahil Mathur taking you through all the action.
Ferguson with his last over. Hetmyer defends one to short midwicket for one. Parag keen on a second, sent back, just manages to make it back. Parag once again too early into his attempted pull. Parag misses his attempted cut outside off, Prabhsimran sloppy in conceding a bye. Wide given. Six!!! Short of a length on the body, Hetmyer swivel pulls it to Chahal at deep fine, makes a mess of it and it falls across the boundary for six.
Arshdeep back into the attack. Three dots to start the over. Parag looks to slap the latest ball over midwicket, misses. Short ball, misses his pull again. Four dots. Four!! Full and wide this time, Riyan edges it over the short third fielder and finds the fence. Four!! Full and straight, gets his timing right this time to punch it down the ground for four.
Marco Jansen back. Yorker on legstump to Parag, dug out to point for a single. Jansen surprises Rana with a short ball, Rana lets it go. WICKET!! Width this time, invites Rana to go over the offside. Not enough distance on the shot, holes out to the offside sweeper.
Nitish Rana c Maxwell b Marco Jansen 12(7)
Shimron Hetmyer in at 5. Short of a length on the body, defended by Hetmyer. Four!! Hetmyer pulls the last ball of the over to the fence to get off the mark.
Parag gets an outside edge as he looks to whip one off his pads, flies through to deep third for a single. WICKET!! Ferguson with the slower one that beats Jaiswal’s bat swing and cleans up the offstump.
Jaiswal b Ferguson 67(45)
Nitish Rana in at 4. Four!! Rana gets off the mark with a crisp shot through cover. Four!! Lofts one over backward point and manages to find the fence again. Clips a fuller one to midwicket for a couple.
Stoinis with his third, Parag fends the first ball to midwicket for one. Jaiswal puts in a dive at the striker’s after being sent back. Slower ball wide outside the stump, slapped to long off for one. Four!! Short slower ball, Parag gets a top edge that flies over short fine leg for a boundary. Six!! Slower ball was in the slot, Jaiswal lofts it over cow corner for a huge six. Four!! Wide outside off, Jaiswal waits for it and slaps it through cover for a boundary.
Chahal with his third. Parag punches a full ball through long off for a single. Jaiswal punches a short of a length delivery to long on for one. Turn from the legstump, Parag edges it towards point. No run. Four!! Overpitched outside off, lofted straight down the ground for a boundary. Fifty for Jaiswal with the boundary. Six!! Jaiswal picks the bones out of the slog, deposits the ball into the stands. Expensive over at the end.
Ferguson with his second over. Four!! Overpitched slower ball, driven through extra cover for a boundary. WICKET!! Samson lofts a full length straight to the hands of mid off. Pace on this time, a little too quick for Samson.
Samson c Shreyas Iyer b Ferguson 38(26)
Riyan Parag in at 3. Edges his first ball to short third for a single. Full outside off, Jaiswal misses his slash. Picks up a single to long off. Quick on the pads, flicked fine but deep fne leg keeps it to one.
Stoinis. Not a lot of boundaries since PowerPlay but Samson and Jaiswal are making sure the dot balls don’t pile up. Jaiswal tries to ramp but doesn’t connect well and can only take a single. Six runs from the over.
Chahal. Wide down the leg and Prabhsimran fails to grab it; five wides. Plenty of singles around the ground. 10 runs from the over.
Marcus Stoinis now. Isn’t a fully flat surface to be aggressive on each delivery. Four! Samson goes on backfoot and drives the ball straight down the ground. Seven runs from the over.
Yuzvendra Chahal is brought in. Four! Samson pulls the ball towards midwicket. Five singles more in that over.
Glenn Maxwell into the attack. Samson punches the ball towards covers for four! A good over to the end PowerPlay for Punjab, just six came from the over.
Lockie Ferguson into the attack. Squares up Samson off the first ball. Jaiswal continues his party as he goes on backfoot and slogs the ball over long on for a six. Jaiswal drives and Maxwell celebrates like he has taken a catch.
Jansen. Samson pushes the ball past mid on for four! Bouncer to Jaiswal and he upper cuts over keeper for SIX. SIX! Clears leg and launches the ball over midwicket region.
Arshdeep. Jaiswal makes room and hits over the top of extra cover fielder, gets two runs. Jaiswal chips the ball JUST over mid on. A desperate jump by Shreyas there but couldn’t get near the ball. This time Jaiswal times the ball and goes well over mid on and finds the fence. Eight runs from the over.
Marco Jansen from the other end. Pace and bounce for Jansen! So far, so good by him; just two from the over off first five balls. Jaiswal takes a single off the last ball to make it three from the over.
Yashasvi Jaiswal and Sanju Samson open the innings. Arshdeep Singh with the new ball.
Jaiswal on strike, Arshdeep swings away from the left hander and it’s a wide to start with. Jaiswal is off the mark with a single. Samson is off the mark with a four. Pulls it towards fine leg. He pushes the ball towards midwicket and runs three. 10 runs from the over.
RR: Kunal Singh Rathore, Shubham Dubey, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Kumar Kartikeya, Akash Madhwal
PBKS: Priyansh Arya, Harpreet Brar, Praveen Dubey, Vishnu Vinod, Vyshak Vijaykumar
RR: Yashasvi Jaiswal, Sanju Samson(C), Nitish Rana, Riyan Parag, Dhruv Jurel (WK), Shimron Hetmyer, Wanindu Hasaranga, Jofra Archer, Maheesh Theekshana, Yudhvir Singh Charak, Sandeep Sharma
PBKS: Prabhsimran Singh(WK), Shreyas Iyer(C), Marcus Stoinis, Nehal Wadhera, Glenn Maxwell, Shashank Singh, Suryansh Shedge, Marco Jansen, Arshdeep Singh, Lockie Ferguson, Yuzvendra Chahal
PBKS wins the toss, opts to bowl first.
“First game in this pitch so we reckon it’ll be better to bowl first. Boys are in high spirits and template for playing has been set from the first match. We’ve got the mindset of champions. We’re going with the same team,” says Shreyas Iyer.
“Looking forward to bat first and put up a big total on the board. Very new team and it takes a bit if time to get along. Tushar misses out due to a niggle. Yudhvir Charak comes in his place,” says Sanju Samson.
IPL 2025 points table: Find the latest updated standings of the Indian Premier League after the Lucknow Super Giants vs Mumbai Indians match on April 4.
Batting 1st: Yashasvi Jaiswal, Sanju Samson (C), Riyan Parag, Nitish Rana, Dhruv Jurel (wk), Shimron Hetmyer, Shubham Dubey, Wanindu Hasaranga, Jofra Archer, Maheesh Theekshana, Tushar Deshpande
Bowling 1st: Yashasvi Jaiswal, Sanju Samson (C), Riyan Parag, Nitish Rana, Dhruv Jurel (wk), Shimron Hetmyer, Wanindu Hasaranga, Jofra Archer, Maheesh Theekshana, Tushar Deshpande, Sandeep Sharma
Impact Player options: Shubham Dubey/ Sandeep Sharma, Kumar Kartikeya, Vaibhav Suryavanshi, Kwena Maphaka, Akash Madhwal
Batting 1st: Prabhsimran Singh (wk), Priyansh Arya, Shreyas Iyer (c), Shashank Singh, Marcus Stoinis, Glenn Maxwell, Suryansh Shedge, Azmatullah Omarzai, Marco Jansen, Arshdeep Singh, Yuzvendra Chahal
Bowling 1st: Prabhsimran Singh (wk), Shreyas Iyer (c), Shashank Singh, Marcus Stoinis, Glenn Maxwell, Suryansh Shedge, Azmatullah Omarzai, Marco Jansen, Arshdeep Singh, Yuzvendra Chahal, Vijaykumar Vyshak
Impact Player options: Nehal Wadhera, Praveen Dubey, Vyshak Vijaykumar/ Priyansh Arya, Harpreet Brar, Vishnu Vinod
Matches played – 28
PBKS won – 11
RR won – 16
Tied – 1
Last result – Punjab Kings won by five wickets (Guwahati, 2024)
Punjab Kings, after rollicking victories away in Ahmedabad and Lucknow, is set to don the role of a host for the first time in IPL 2025.
Saturday’s fixture against the Rajasthan Royals is also a good opportunity for the in-form team to snap its four-match winless run at the Maharaja Yadavindra Singh Stadium.
After the 11-run win over Gujarat Titans in a run feast, PBKS hunted down Lucknow Super Giants’ 171 in a canter. Skipper Shreyas Iyer (149 runs at a strike rate of 206.94) has been at the forefront of Kings’ charge with the bat.
The team’s astute use of the Impact Player rule (V. Vyshak vs GT and Nehal Wadhera vs LSG) has also been praiseworthy.
– Sankar Narayanan EH
Punjab Kings, after rollicking victories away in Ahmedabad and Lucknow, is set to don the role of a host for the first time in IPL 2025.
PBKS: Nehal Wadhera, Harnoor Singh, Shreyas Iyer, Musheer Khan, Pyla Avinash, Prabhsimran Singh, Vishnu Vinod, Josh Inglis, Marcus Stoinis, Glenn Maxwell, Praveen Dubey, Priyansh Arya, Azmatullah Omarzai, Aaron Hardie, Marco Jansen, Harpreet Brar, Suryansh Shedge, Shashank Singh, Lockie Ferguson, Yuzvendra Chahal, Arshdeep Singh, Xavier Bartlett, Kuldeep Sen, Vijaykumar Vyshak, Yash Thakur
RR: Sanju Samson (c), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Riyan Parag, Dhruv Jurel, Shimron Hetmyer, Sandeep Sharma, Jofra Archer, Wainindu Hasaranga, Maheesh Theekshana, Akash Madhwal, Kumar Kartikeya Singh, Nitish Rana, Tushar Deshpande, Shubham Dubey, Yudhvir Charak, Fazal Farooqi, Vaibhav Suryavanshi, Kwena Maphaka, Kunal Rathore, Ashok Sharma.
Hello and welcome to the live coverage of the IPL 2025 encounter between Punjab Kings and Rajasthan Royals at Mullanpur. Stay tuned for the live scores and updates from the game.
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