Punjab Kings won by 8 wickets against Lucknow Supergiants. After winning the toss, Punjab Kings captain Shreyas Iyer decided to bowl first. Which proved to be effective for them. Based on Arshdeep Singh's brilliant bowling, Punjab stopped Lucknow on runs. When the Punjab Kings team came out to chase, they won in just 16.2 overs.

Opener Markram also hit a four and a six on consecutive balls of Lockie Ferguson (one wicket for 26 runs) but was bowled on the next ball. Mitchell Marsh, who came with him, was out on 0. Nicholas Pooran played a good innings of 44 runs but his dangerous form was not seen. Captain Rishabh Pant (02) failed once again and got caught by Yuzvendra Chahal at short fine leg off Glenn Maxwell (one wicket for 22 runs), taking the team's score to 35 runs for three wickets in the fifth over.

Pooran scored 44 while Badoni scored 41 runs. Badoni played an important role in taking the team's score beyond 170 runs by adding 47 runs in just 21 balls for the sixth wicket with Abdul Samad (27) in the death overs. Arshdeep Singh was the most successful bowler for Punjab Kings, who took three wickets for 43 runs. In this way, Lucknow scored 171 runs in 20 overs.

Punjab won the match.

When the team of Punjab Kings came out to bat, Priyansh Arya was out early. His wicket was taken by Digvesh Rathi. He could score only 8 runs. After this, Shreyas Iyer came on the field and he shared a 110-run partnership with opener Prabhsimran Singh. Prabhsimran could score 69 runs in 34 balls. After this, Iyer (52 off 30 balls) also hit a fifty and won the match by hitting a six. Nehal Vadhera also scored 46 runs. Digvesh Rathi took only 2 wickets for Lucknow.

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