PBKS beat LSG by 7 wickets and 2 overs to spare at the Bharat Ratna Sri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Stadium in Lucknow to keep their playoffs hopes alive, although Punjab's destiny is not in their hands anymore.
Nicholas Pooran, too, was unable to continue his newfound form, but Ayush Badoni laid into the Punjab bowlers. Badoni made 43 runs in a partnership of 49 with Inglis. Inglis continued his good form by smashing 72 in the end, and put up 65 with Rishabh Pant.
Mohammed Shami sent Priyansh Arya packing on the first ball of the chase, and Cooper Connolly too fell shortly after. But Prabhsimran Singh and Shreyas Iyer ensured that there were no other hiccups.
Iyer was racing against the scoreboard for his century, but eventually got there by hitting a six when he was batting on 94, and Punjab needed 3 runs to win.
"We were sloppy in the field" - Ricky Ponting
“We've done it the hard way, let's put it that way. We've done what we needed to do today. Sloppy in the field again, gave them 20 more runs than what they should've got,” Ponting said.
“Pretty clinical chase, especially being in trouble early. The captain has done that all season. When there's been a run chase on like that, he's pretty much every time put his hand up and got the job done. That's his first IPL century tonight. We'll celebrate that, and then we'll sit around and wait for those results tomorrow," he added.
“The level of cricket we played in the first half was a level I've never seen before. And then we just made some crucial errors at different times in the last six games. Today was a whole lot better,” the PBKS coach said.
PBKS qualification scenario
After their season of two halves, the Punjab Kings are now depending on other results to send them through to the top four.
If RR beat MI instead, Punjab will be out. And if RR don't beat MI, but KKR beat DC, it will come down to an NRR battle between them and Punjab.
Also Read: IPL 2026 playoffs race: RR, KKR and PBKS qualification scenarios explained
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