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New Chandigarh, 19 April. Punjab Kings (PBKS), the only unbeatable team so far in the Tata Indian Premier League (IPL-19), not only registered their name on the highest score of the current season amidst a mighty performance with bat and ball in front of the home crowd on Sunday night but also retained their top position in the points table with an impressive 54-run win over Lucknow Super Giants (LSG).

Hosts reached 254 runs with the explosive fifties of Priyansh and Cooper

Opting to bat first at the Maharaja Yadvinder Singh International Cricket Stadium, the home team scored a mountain-like score of 254 runs for seven wickets due to the explosive innings of two young left-handed batsmen – Delhi resident Priyansh Arya (93 runs, 37 balls, nine sixes, four fours) and Australian Cooper Connolly (87 runs, 46 balls, seven sixes, eight fours) and a valuable century partnership between them. In this sequence, Shreyas Iyer and Company left behind RCB, who made the highest score of the current season with 250 runs against CSK in Bengaluru on April 5.

Despite the efforts of Pant and other batsmen, the guests remained at 200.

During the counter action, Punjab Kings bowlers led by Marco Jansen (2-37) did not allow any batsman from the opposition to touch the 50 mark. Despite the efforts of other batsmen including captain Rishabh Pant (43 runs, 23 balls, four sixes, one four), who became the highest scorer in this sequence, the Lucknow team stopped at 200 runs for five wickets.

Punjab Kings lead with fifth win

Punjab Kings, leading the points table, have now collected 11 points with their fifth and fourth consecutive win in six matches. Its match against Kolkata Knight Riders was washed out due to rain. This was LSG’s third consecutive and fourth defeat in six matches and it is in eighth place with four points.

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Talking about the match, apart from Rishabh Pant, apart from Rishabh Pant, Aiden Markram (42 runs, 22 balls, three sixes, three fours), Mitchell Marsh (40 runs, 28 balls, two sixes, three fours) and Ayush Badoni (35 runs, 21 balls, one six, five fours) showed their sharp hands, but not a single batsman could go very far.

Marsh-Badoni and Markram-Mukul made half-century partnerships

Marsh and Badoni added 61 runs on 36 balls for the first wicket, while Markram and Mukul Chaudhary (21 not out, 17 balls, one six, one four) added 60 runs on 34 balls. Apart from Yansen, Arshdeep Singh, Vijaykumar Vishak and Yuzvendra Chahal shared three wickets among themselves.

Punjab Kings fielders dropped many catches

However, the performance of the fielders of Punjab Kings was very poor, who dropped a lot of catches during the match. In these, Shashank Singh dropped about three catches on the field. If these catches had been taken, the home team’s victory margin could have been bigger.

Arya and Connolly scored 182 runs in 80 balls.

Before this, if we look at the innings of Punjab Kings, even though Prabhasimran Singh (0) was out on the third ball. Shami (1-56) became the victim. But after that, ‘Player of the Match’ 24-year-old Priyansh and Connolly, two years younger than him, not only scored their second half-centuries of the season amidst stormy innings, but also saw a total of 16 sixes (9 for Priyansh) and 12 fours during their brilliant partnership of 182 runs in 80 balls.

However, after the return of these two batsmen within four balls, Shreyas Iyer (five runs) did not work. But before being run out on the last ball of the innings, Marcus Stoinis (29 runs, 16 balls, two sixes, two fours), Nehal Wadhera (13 runs, seven balls, one six, one four) and Shashank Singh (17 runs, six balls, two sixes, one four) also showed their sharp hand and took the team beyond 250. For Lucknow, Prince Yadav (2-25) and Manimaran Siddharth (2-35) shared four wickets among themselves.

monday match : : Gujarat Titans vs Mumbai Indians (Ahmedabad, 7.30 PM).