Pandjab Kings (PBKS) defeated Kolkata Knight (KKR) by 16 runs in the 31 Indian Premier League 2025 (IPL 2025) on Tuesday, April 15 in Maharaja Yadavindra Singh International Criket Stage, Mullanpur, Chandigarh. Shreyas Iyer men prevented the lowest score in the history of IPL to give Kolkata a harsh soul.
After the Bat decided first, the pandjab was connected at only 111 at 15.3 overs like Harshit Rana (3/25, 3 overs), Varun Chakravarthy (2/21) and Sunil Narine (2/14) appeared as the highest goals for Kolkata. In response, KKR got all of them at 95 at 15.1 overs when Yuzvendra Chahal (4/28) and Marco Jansen (3/17) scripted a miracle in Mullanpur. The game defeated the best of Bollywood scripts when the momentum moved to one way to the other with each van, which gave fans a visiting pip of emotions.
IPL 2025: PBKS vs KKR Update
The KKR came to the shaking start of their persecution when Marco Jansen broke Sunil Narine (5 out of 4) stumps in the first. Two balls later, Xavier Bartlett got Quinton de Kock (2 out of 4) to a deep square leg and left the Krk 7/2 in 1.2 overs. After two fast strokes, Kolkata Angkrish RaghuvanShi brought as an impact and he joined the captain Ajinkya Rahane on the fold.
The duo sent a feeling of calm in their dressing room with a 55-run partnership of 38 balls, while Raghuvanki and Rahane played some wonderful shots. When Kkr needed only 52 runs to win from 13 balls, captain Shreyas Iyer threw the ball towards Yuzvendra Chahal, who was in a terrible season in the current season.
Chhal managed to interrupt the partnership by acquiring Ajinkya Rahane LBW (17 out of 17). Captain KKR decided not to go for DRS, but a lot of his misfortune, the repetition showed that he was hit by the stump, which would save him. Rahane’s release was just a happy break that Chahal needed to recall the forces he owned because the wrist brought his game to the forefront and made a dough stoller in front of him.
Angkrish Raghuvanki (37 out of 28) proved to be his second scalp that hit him directly to Xavier Bartlett at a point. On the other hand, Glenn Maxwell also joined the side and got Venkatesh Iyer (7 out of 4) LBW to leave the KKR to 74/5 in 10.4 overs. In no time, panic again expanded to the Kolkata dressing room, when Khahal turned the site around their launch and released Rink Singh (2 out of 9) and Ramandeep Singh (0 of 1) in his third place.
Marco Jansen also made Tailender Harshit Rana, who pulled one back to his stumps when the KRK fell from 72/3 to 79/8 in only 23 balls. If it was not enough drama, Andre Russell decided to take over Chhal, break it into two sixes and the border to win the required runs at 17 out of 33.
Previously, Punjab continued with their aggressive template, when the Openers of Priyansh Arya (22 OFF 12) and Prabhsimran Singh (30 out of 15) took the krklers after standing on the first few balls. Prabhsimran got his shifts when he took the arra on Vibhav during his second, turning it to two four and six.
In no time Pandjab was 39/0 at 3.1 breaks when they looked at another massive score. Their hopes, however, were a massive hit in the next three balls, because Harshit Rana gained a valuable scalp of Priyank Arya and made him catch him on a deep square leg. Speedster also sent his former captain Shreyas Iyer for his way back to the Hall, which was not concerned with the shooter on his first trip against Krk after led them to the iPL triumph in 2024.
After winning Captain Pandjab, Captain Ajinkya Rahane brought to his trump card Varun Chakravarthy and wrists immediately launched his usual trade when he ended his debut Jos Inglis “to 2 (6) by dismantling his stumps. On the other hand, Rana continued his pile of suffering when he got a dangerous prabbi Singh, who was caught at a point and left Kolkata at 54/4 at the end of PowerPlay.
Despite the loss of the goal in clusters, Pandjab tried to continue attacking the attack when he did not move Wadher everywhere and everywhere. His stay in the folds could only take ten balls when he also got out of playing one shot too much and at depth he went to 10 (9).
Glenn Maxwell (7 out of 10) also continued his terrible form when he could not read Chakravarthy Googly, who crashed into his stump, which crashed into his stump. Sunil Narine also accumulated on suffering with his double goal and released the players of the impact of SuryANSh Shegde (4 out of 4) and Marco Jansen (1 out of 2). SHASHANK SINGH (18 out of 17) and Xavier Bartlett (11 out of 15) got a pandjab at around 100, but both were released in the area of three balls when Pandjab got all of them at 111.
Published:
Rishabh beniwal
Published on:
April 15, 2025
