The destiny of the Punjab Kings-Rajasthan Royals Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025 fixture on Saturday was just about sealed as soon as pacer Jofra Archer hit the bull’s eye a few occasions within the first over of the second innings.
Chasing 206 is hard, and it’s even harder when you lose two wickets inside six balls.
RR went on to win by 50 runs, thereby consigning PBKS to its fifth straight loss on the Maharaja Yadavindra Singh Stadium.
The house followers went silent as PBKS misplaced opener Priyansh Arya and Shreyas Iyer early. After this, Sandeep Sharma despatched again Marcus Stoinis, and Affect Participant Kumar Kartikeya eliminated Prabhsimran Singh.
Nehal Wadhera (62, 41b, 4×4, 3×6) and Glenn Maxwell’s 88-run stand did pump up the group, however the excessive was short-lived because the Australian and the native boy perished making an attempt to clear the boundary off consecutive balls.
The remainder of the proceedings proved a mere formality, although there was confusion concerning whether or not RR had extra deep fielders than what’s allowed off the ultimate ball of the match.
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Earlier, Royals amassed 205 for 4 after being requested to bat first.
The 89-run opening stand between Yashasvi Jaiswal (67, 45b, 3×4, 5×6) and Sanju Samson (38, 26b, 6×4) gave the best platform for the remainder of the batters — led by Riyan Parag (43 n.o., 25b, 3×4, 3×6) — to go massive within the demise overs.
The primary time Samson mistimed a ball, he holed out straight to his reverse quantity Shreyas, off Lockie Ferguson. Jaiswal, unperturbed by what occurred on the different finish, latched onto something unfastened and punished Yuzvendra Chahal and Stoinis.
Ferguson struck once more as Jaiswal missed a slower ball. He might have added one other wicket to his tally had Chahal not missed a regulation catch to dismiss Shimron Hetmyer.
Parag went berserk after a sluggish begin and made full use of a reprieve given by Marco Jansen.
Arshdeep ensured Chahal’s miss was not expensive as he despatched again Hetmyer within the penultimate over. Nonetheless, Parag and Dhruv Jurel scored 19 off Stoinis’ ultimate over to propel the rating above 200, which proved too exhausting for PBKS to search out.