Mullanpur. In the IPL, Punjab Kings will rely on strong batting to maintain their winning streak against Lucknow Super Giants on Sunday. The Lucknow team is also worried about the injury of captain Rishabh Pant. Punjab Kings has been the only unbeaten team so far this season, having won four out of five matches. A match against Kolkata was canceled due to rain. Under the captaincy of Shreyas Iyer, the team’s net run rate is +1.067, which shows his strong batting and ability to chase the target. Punjab has won 9 out of the last 11 matches while chasing the target since the 2025 season. This was clearly visible in the recent win against Mumbai also.
To stop this momentum of the host team, LSG will have to perform brilliantly. LSG, which is at number seven in the points table, is under pressure after two consecutive defeats. The team’s problems have increased due to captain Pant’s elbow injury in the last match against Royal Challengers Bangalore. Pant retired hurt due to pain after playing just three balls. He later returned to bat, but had a bandage on his elbow. In such a situation, his availability in Sunday’s match is not decided yet.
The match will be played between Punjab and Supergiants on Sunday.
The match against RCB was one-sided. Despite the struggle of Mukul Chaudhary and Ayush Badoni, LSG team could score only 146 runs. Lucknow’s batting has not been in rhythm so far and the team has not been able to score 200 runs so far this season. At the same time, Punjab has crossed the 200 mark twice and in the last match against Mumbai, it was moving towards victory by scoring 198 runs for 3 wickets in 16.3 overs. Punjab opener Prabhsimran Singh (211 runs) is in excellent form.
He and captain Shreyas Iyer (203 runs) are playing at strike rates of 172.95 and 187.96 respectively. Both of them had made an important partnership in the victory against Mumbai. Priyansh Arya and Cooper Connolly have also strengthened the team’s batting. In bowling, Arshdeep Singh showed signs of returning to form by taking three wickets for 22 runs against Mumbai. Prince Yadav has been the most successful bowler for LSG with nine wickets. After him are Avesh Khan (five wickets) and Mohammed Shami (four wickets).
Shami looked weak in front of Virat Kohli and Rajat Patidar in the last match. Digvesh Rathi also proved costly in the last match, where Jitesh Sharma and Tim David scored quickly against him. In batting, Mukul Chaudhary (127 runs), Aiden Markram (120 runs), Mitchell Marsh (115 runs) and Ayush Badoni (113 runs) have scored the most runs, but the team will have to play more aggressively to make a comeback. The team will expect good performance from Marsh, Markram and Nicholas Pooran, who has not played a big innings till now. To win against Punjab Kings, the team’s batsmen will have to show their best performance.
Teams:
Punjab Kings: Shreyas Iyer (captain), Priyansh Arya, Payla Avinash, Harnoor Singh, Prabhsimran Singh (wicketkeeper), Vishnu Vinod (wicketkeeper), Nehal Wadhera, Azmatullah Omarzai, Cooper Connolly, Marco Yanson, Musheer Khan, Mitchell Owen, Shashank Singh, Marcus Stoinis, Suryansh Shedge, Arshdeep Singh, Xavier Bartlett, Yuzvendra Chahal, Praveen Dubey, Ben Dwarshuis, Lockie Ferguson, Harpreet Brar, Vishal Nishad, Vijaykumar Vaishyak, Yash Thakur.
Lucknow Super Giants: Rishabh Pant (captain), Aiden Markram, Himmat Singh, Matthew Bretzke, Mukul Chaudhary, Akshat Raghuvanshi, Josh Inglis, Mitchell Marsh, Abdul Samad, Shahbaz Ahmed, Arshin Kulkarni, Wanindu Hasranga, Ayush Badoni, Mohammed Shami, Avesh Khan, M Siddharth, Digvesh Rathi, Akash Singh, Prince Yadav, Arjun Tendulkar, Enrique Norcia, Naman Tiwari, Mayank Yadav, Mohsin Khan.
