Lucknow made the biggest score of this IPL - beat PBKS by all out and 56 runs

PBKS vs LSG: PBKS vs LSG: Lucknow Supergiants beat Punjab Kings by a huge margin of 56 runs in Indian Premier League-16. This is the team's 5th win in the current season. Punjab won the toss and chose bowling at the PCA IS Bindra Stadium in Mohali. Batting first, Lucknow scored 257 runs for 5 wickets in 20 overs. In reply, the Punjab batsmen were all out for 201 runs in 19.5 overs. Lucknow has scored the second highest score in the history of the league. The highest score in the league is 263, made by RCB against Pune Warriors in Bengaluru in 2013. This is the biggest score of the current season. 250+ runs have been scored for the second time in IPL.

Punjab's wickets fell like this...

First: Krunal Pandya was caught by Stoinis at deep point.

Second: On the fourth ball of the fourth over, Naveen-ul-Haq got Prabhasimran caught by Daniel Symes.

Third: On the third ball of the 12th over, Yash Thakur got Sikandar Raza caught by Krunal Pandya.

Fourth: Atharva Tayde was caught and bowled by Ravi Bishnoi on the last ball of the 13th over.

Fifth: Ravi Bishnoi lbw Liam Livingstone on the second ball of the 16th over.

Sixth: Naveen-ul-Haq got Sam Karan caught by Ayush Badoni on the last ball of the 16th over.

Tayde scored his first half-century on 26 balls

Atharva Tayde scored his maiden half-century in the league. He completed the half century in 26 balls. Tayde scored 66 runs in 36 balls at a strike rate of 183.33. 8 fours and 2 sixes came from his bat.

Both openers of Punjab returned to the pavilion in Powerplay

Chasing the target from the mountain of 258 runs, the beginning of Punjab was not special. The team lost 2 wickets in the powerplay scoring 55 runs. Captain Shikhar Dhawan and Prabhasimran were dismissed after scoring 9 runs.

Meyers-Stoinis's half-century, Lucknow scored 257 runs

Batting first after losing the toss, Lucknow scored 257 runs for 5 wickets in 20 overs. This is the second highest score in the history of the league. The highest score in the league is 263, made by RCB against Pune Warriors in Bengaluru in 2013. 250+ runs have been scored for the second time in IPL. This is the biggest score of the current season.

Punjab won the toss and elected to bowl at the PCA IS Bindra Stadium in Mohali. Marcus Stoinis (72 off 40 balls) and Kyle Meyers (54 off 24 balls) played half-century innings for Lucknow. Ayush Badoni scored 43 and Nicholas Pooran scored 45 off 19 balls.

Kagiso Rabada took two wickets. Arshdeep, Sam Karan, Liam Livingstone took one wicket each.

Lucknow's wickets fell like this...

First: On the third ball of the fourth over, Rabada got Rahul caught by Shahrukh Khan.

Second: On the fifth ball of the sixth over, Kagiso Rabada got Kyle Meyers caught by Dhawan.

Third: On the third ball of the 14th over, Livingstone got Ayush Badoni in the hands of Chahar.

Fourth: On the second ball of the 19th over, Marcus Stoinis was caught by wicketkeeper Jitesh Sharma off Sam Karan's ball.

Fifth: On the fourth ball of the 20th over, Arshdeep Singh ran out Nicholas Pooran.

Stoinis scored the second fifty of the season

Stoinis completed the sixth half-century of IPL career in 31 balls. This is Stoinis' second half-century of this season.

Fifty partnership in Badoni-Stoinis

After losing 2 wickets in the powerplay, Lucknow's innings was handled by Ayush Badoni and Marcus Stoinis. Both batted at a strike rate of over 150 and made a fifty partnership in just 26 balls. Both shared a partnership of 89 runs on 47 balls.

Explosive Fifty by Kyle Mayers

Kyle Meyers completed the fourth half-century of the season in 20 balls. He completed his fifty by hitting big shots in the powerplay itself. This is Meyers' fourth half-century in the current season. This is also his overall fourth half-century. Meyers scored 54 runs in 24 balls at a strike rate of 225.00. Meyers' innings included 7 fours and 4 sixes.

Lucknow's fast start

Lucknow Supergiants got off to a brisk start. The team has scored 74 runs in the powerplay, although the team lost the wicket of KL Rahul. The captain got out after scoring 12 runs. After that Kyle Meyers and Ayush Badoni shared a half-century partnership.

Dhawan and Raza return

The Punjab team has landed with 2 changes. Skipper Shikhar Dhawan himself is back, while Sikandar Raza is back in place of Matthew Short.

Playing-11 of both the teams...

Punjab Kings: Shikhar Dhawan (Captain), Atharva Tayde, Sikandar Raza, Liam Livingstone, Sam Karan, Jitesh Sharma, Shah Rukh Khan, Kagiso Rabada, Rahul Chahar, Gurnoor Brar and Arshdeep Singh.

Impact Players: Prabhsimran Singh, Mohit Rathi, Rishi Dhawan, Matthew Short and Harpreet Brar.

Lucknow Super Giants: KL Rahul (captain), Kyle Mayers, Deepak Hooda, Marcus Stoinis, Krunal Pandya, Nicholas Pooran (wicketkeeper), Ayush Badoni, Naveen-ul-Haq, Yash Thakur, Avesh Khan and Ravi Bishnoi.

Impact Players: Krishnappa Gautam, Daniel Symes, Prerak Mankad, Amit Mishra and Mark Wood.