Right through the season with their overseas players and bowlers struggling for form, SRH badly missed an all-rounder like Shahbaz who provided the team the balance last season.
Yash Dayal is acing the death overs role for his team, and earning plaudits.
Earlier Rishabh Pant won the toss and put Punjab Kings into bat. Prasbhsimran played a blistering innings to take Punjab to 236/5 in their quota of 20 overs while other batters contributed with cameos.
Thousands of RCB fans, dubbed 12th Army lined the streets from Chinnaswamy to hotel, after tgev2-run win over CSK that all but ensured Playoffs qualification.
The big hitter from West Indies acquired a new nickname Rhino Romario after his stunning innings against CSK.
Punjab Kings on Sunday announced Australian youngster Mitchell Owen as the replacement for his senior compatriot and all-rounder Glenn Maxwell, who was recently ruled out of the IPL 2025 season with an injury.
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Chennai Super Kings' Khaleel Ahmed bowled the most expensive over of IPL 2025, leaking 33 runs against Royal Challengers Bengaluru on Saturday.
Lucknow Super Giants will be looking to exploit Punjab Kings' patchy home form at Dharamsala and get their own campaign back on track after coming off the back of 3 losses.
Needing 35 from 19 balls in the chase, CSK would have won if not for the impressive leggie Suyash Sharma’s 6-run 18th over and Yash Dayal’s brilliant final over, where he defended 15 runs.
Punjab Kings shifts to Dharamsala which is their home base for a couple of matches as they take on an inconsistent Lucknow Super Giants on Sunday.
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Vaibhav Suryavanshi’s family left no stone unturned to match his passion for cricket. His father Sanjeev built a practice pitch with a net beside their home, “inviting local and university bowlers” to bowl to his son. “My brother arranged their food, sometimes travel costs, to ensure Vaibhav’s practice never faltered. The bowlers got to face a gifted batsman, so they came eagerly,” said his uncle Rajeev Suryavanshi.
Following Kohli and Sudharsan in the top 5 are Mumbai Indians' Suryakumar Yadav, Gujarat Titans' Jos Buttler and Shubman Gill.
Kohli is followed by 263 by Chris Gayle for RCB, 262 by Rohit Sharma for MI, 258 by Kieron Pollard for MI and 257 by MS Dhoni for CSK.
They have last all four matches at the venue since 2023, but need to step up to seal first playoff spot since 2014.
Gill had scored a 38-ball 76 which helped GT post 224, a target which was too steep to climb for SRH.
Suryavanshi burst into the collective cricketing consciousness when he became the youngest IPL centurion ever with his blistering 35-ball 100 against the Gujarat Titans on April 28.
Only Abhishek Sharma was the lone bright spot for SRH with 74 runs as the Pat Cummins-led side lost wickets at regular intervals to fall short of the 224-run target set by GT.
Kolkata Knight Riders will battle to survive in the Playoffs race when they face the Rajasthan Royals. Currently locked at nine points, KKR will hope to make the best of their remaining fixtures and hope that they will have a say in the eventual four-team Playoffs grid.
Kolkata Knight Riders will lock horns with Rajasthan Royals in a must-win clash at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata on Sunday afternoon.
Kohli was part of that very first IPL auction in 2008, still fresh off captaining India to a U-19 World Cup title. Now, he stands as the league’s most consistent performer and its most enduring face.
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IPL 2025, GT vs SRH: Despite a comfortable 38-run victory amidst a jam-packed home ground, tempers flared when Shubman Gill was seen holding lengthy chats with the umpires across both innings.