Punjab Kings carried out one of the biggest comeback by defending a record low clan against Kolkata Knight Riders in Mullanpur of Match No. 31, one of the biggest return in the IPL match. IPL 2025This victory helped PBK snatch the top four of the points in the tournament.
PBKS openers made a strong start, but Harshit Rana (3 for 25) Triple Strike in Powerplay slowed down the hosts. In the middle overs, Sunil Narin and Varun Chakraborty played their role in ensuring that PBK has collapsed with a paletry 111. KKR lost both of his openers within eight balls of Chase, but Ajinkya Rahane and Angkarish Raghuvanshi got a partnership that matches was getting matches. Enter Yuzvendra Chahal (4 for 28).
Rahane's Chahal's dismissal made one fall as KKR lost six wickets for 17 runs in 31 balls, in which Chahal took four of them. In the context of the required run rate, KKR was hovering, but had lost a lot of wickets. Andre Russell exploded in Chahal's last over for 16 runs and took a last stand, but did not retain the strike for the next over. Arshdeep Singh left an important wicket for Vaibhav Arora to the girl KKR, leaving with 17 runs to chase the last five overs, but only one wicket was left. Russell cut Marco Jansen and pulled the least successful defense in the IPL towards the house.
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Here are the most important numbers from the match
1 – Since the beginning of 2024, Glenn Maxwell's batting average in the IPL is 6.64, the lowest for any top six batsmen with minimum 10 innings during that period. In fact, Maxwell is the only in the list for average in single digits.
1 – Sunil Narendra went as the highest wicket -taker against PBK in the IPL and also broke the record for the most wickets against the same team in the IPL with 36 against Punjab Kings. Umesh Yadav with 35 wickets is also against PBK, second.
3 – Sunil Naren is now taking the most wickets in the IPL with 187 wickets. Bhuvneshwar Kumar also has the same number while Piyush Chawla (192) and Yuzvendra Chahal (211) are only ahead. R Ashwin (185) is also hot on his heel.
1 – Yuzvendra Chahal became the highest wicket -taker against KKR in the history of IPL, which was 33 wickets against Bhuvneshwar Kumar's defending champion before 32.
3 – Chahal's 33 wickets against KKR are the most wickets by a player against the same team in the IPL. Both Sunil Naren and Umesh Yadav are against PBK, 36 and 35 wickets respectively. Both Dwayne Bravo and Mohit Sharma, against MI, also have 33 wickets. The next two entries on the list are with 32 each against Bhubaneswar Kumar KKR and Chahal against PBKS.
1 – With 84, Arshdeep Singh is now the most common wicket -taking wicket for Punjab Kings in the IPL. Piyush Chawla also has many, but was last played for the franchise in 2013.
1 – In this match, 111 IPL defended by PBK has been successfully defended successfully. The previous record was CSK's successful defense of 116, which returned to herself in 2009 against PBKs.
1 – PBK also holds records for the highest successful pursuit in the IPL. Incidentally, both these records came against KKR.
5 – This was the fifth IPL match where all 20 wickets fell, that is, both teams were all out. Needless to say, the team that defended the team also won the last four.
4 – The collective batting average of 10.30 (206 for 206 runs for 206 runs for 206 runs) in this match is the fourth lowest in IPL history. In 2017, KKR's game against RCB in Kolkata was a mass match batting average of 9.00 after RCB was notorious for 49, yet the lowest team in IPL was the total. The game is the only one with a collective average below ten in the IPL.
3,4 – In IPL 2025, KKR won all three matches, where Moeen Ali was a part of playing and lost all four matches, where the British warmed the bench.
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