{"id":20380,"date":"2025-04-02T07:52:01","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T02:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=20380"},"modified":"2025-04-02T07:52:01","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T02:07:01","slug":"punjab-secures-second-consecutive-win-in-ipl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/punjab-secures-second-consecutive-win-in-ipl\/","title":{"rendered":"Punjab Secures Second Consecutive Win in IPL"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p class=\"\" data-start=\"57\" data-end=\"288\"><strong>Kathmandu, April 2:<\/strong> Punjab Kings continued their winning momentum in the Indian Premier League (IPL) with a commanding 8-wicket victory over Lucknow Super Kings on Tuesday night. This marks their second consecutive win in the tournament.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"290\" data-end=\"748\">Chasing a target of 172, Punjab displayed a dominant batting performance, reaching 177\/2 in just 16.2 overs. Prabhsimran Singh and captain Shreyas Iyer were the stars of the chase, both scoring crucial half-centuries. Singh dazzled with a blistering 69 off 34 balls, smashing 9 fours and 3 sixes, while Iyer played a solid knock of 53 off 30 balls, hitting 4 sixes and 3 fours. Nehal Wadhera added a valuable 43 runs, while Priyansh Arya chipped in with 8.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"750\" data-end=\"912\">Lucknow\u2019s bowling attack struggled to contain Punjab\u2019s batters, with Digvesh Rathi being the lone bright spot, taking 2 wickets for 30 runs in his 4-over spell.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"914\" data-end=\"1169\">Earlier, after being put in to bat first, Lucknow managed to post 171\/7 in 20 overs. Nicholas Pooran top-scored with 44 runs, while Ayush Badoni contributed 41. Aiden Markram (28), Abdul Samad (27), and David Miller (19) also made notable contributions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1171\" data-end=\"1420\">Punjab\u2019s bowling unit delivered an impressive performance, with Arshdeep Singh leading the attack by taking 3 wickets. Lockie Ferguson, Glenn Maxwell, Marco Jansen, and Yuzvendra Chahal each picked up a wicket to restrict Lucknow\u2019s batting lineup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1422\" data-end=\"1636\">With this victory, Punjab has climbed to second place on the points table with 4 points from two matches. Meanwhile, Lucknow, having played one extra match but securing only 2 points, currently sits in sixth place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu, April 2: Punjab Kings continued their winning momentum in the Indian Premier League (IPL) with a commanding 8-wicket victory over Lucknow Super Kings on Tuesday night. This marks their second consecutive win in the tournament. Chasing a target of 172, Punjab displayed a dominant batting performance, reaching 177\/2 in just 16.2 overs. Prabhsimran Singh [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20381,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20380"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20380"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20383,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20380\/revisions\/20383"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}