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IPL 2025: Punjab Kings show swagger with all-round display against lacklustre Lucknow Super Giants
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IPL 2025: Punjab Kings show swagger with all-round display against lacklustre Lucknow Super Giants

Punjab Kings bowlers get regular wickets on the red-soil pitch before Prabhsimran Singh, Shreyas Iyer and Nehal Wadhera muscle through the chase for a routine eight-wicket win over Lucknow Super Giants.After a lot of talk about the tournament being loaded in favour of the batsmen, Punjab Kings bowlers capitalised on the red-soil pitch at the Ekana Stadium, which had a reasonable amount of grass cover and offered something for the bowlers. With an easy subsequent chase, Shreyas Iyer’s side stormed to an eight-wicket victory over Lucknow Super Giants on Tuesday. Wickets at the right time The varied strengths of Punjab’s bowling line-up, and skipper Iyer’s utilisation of the resources at his disposal, allowed his team to take crucial wickets at the right time, choking the home team’s line-up ...
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Rajasthan Royals ring more alarm bells for Chennai Super Kings
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Rajasthan Royals ring more alarm bells for Chennai Super Kings

A romantic ending glimmered in the Guwahati skies. The probability of MS Dhoni turning the clock back and finishing the game with vintage swagger lurked. Needing 20 off the final over, Dhoni in pugnacious mood with 16 from 10 balls, nervous excitement soaked the stadium and the minds of the audience. But in pure anticlimax, he perished in the first legal ball of the over. Despite the strikes of Jamie Overton, Chennai Super Kings fell six runs short of Rajasthan Royals’ score of 182, thus handing out their opponents the first win of the season. Hangman Hasaranga Wanindu Hararanga exudes a monkish calm in the direst of situations. Where lesser-willed men sense danger, he sniffs an opportunity; when the tide seems to turn against him, he merely decides to change the course of the current hims...
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‘He should have batted ahead of Ashwin’: Shane Watson on MS Dhoni coming out at No. 9 vs RCB
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‘He should have batted ahead of Ashwin’: Shane Watson on MS Dhoni coming out at No. 9 vs RCB

Former Australia all-rounder Shane Watson batted for Mahendra Singh Dhoni to be promoted up the batting order for the Chennai Super Kings (CSK). This was after CSK suffered a heavy 50-run defeat against the Royal Challengers Bengaluru at the Chepauk on Friday with Dhoni coming in to bat at number 9 with Ravichandran Ashwin sent before him. The former CSK captain would play a vintage 16-ball 30 but the match was already out of CSK’s hands by then. “This is exactly what CSK fans come to see — 30 off 16 deliveries from Dhoni. I would have absolutely loved to see him come up the order. In my opinion, he should have batted ahead of Ashwin,” Watson said. “Given the game situation, Dhoni could have played like this for another 15 balls. Over the last couple of years, he has consistently shown tha...
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IPL 2025: Uncapped, unfazed – How Priyansh Arya made a strong early impression for PBKS on debut
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IPL 2025: Uncapped, unfazed – How Priyansh Arya made a strong early impression for PBKS on debut

It’s early stages in the 18th season of Indian Premier League, but a strong early trend that has emerged is how uncapped Indian players have made their presence felt. One of those who have caught the eye is Punjab Kings’ Priyansh Arya. The 24-year-old from Delhi came in for special praise from PBKS head coach Ricky Ponting after their side’s 11-run win in a high-scoring contest in Ahmedabad on Tuesday against Gujarat Titans. “I reckon we set the tone with a guy playing in his first IPL game… Priyansh, the way he started today,” Ponting said in his dressing room debrief speech. Priyansh, taking strike on his debut against a star-studded bowling lineup, scored a brisk 23-ball 47 with seven fours (the most on the night) and two sixes. In fact, Ponting had identified Priyansh as a player to wa...
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