IPL 2026 PBKS vs LSG 29th Match Highlight: The 29th match of IPL 2026 was played between Punjab Kings and Lucknow Super Giants in Mullanpur New Chandigarh. In this match, Punjab Kings gave a big defeat to Rishabh Pant’s Lucknow by 54 runs. Earlier, LSG captain Rishabh Pant won the toss and invited Punjab to bat. Punjab Kings scored the highest score of IPL 2026 due to the strong innings of Priyansh Arya and Cooper Connolly. Punjab made a mountain score of 254 runs in 20 overs. In response, Lucknow Super Giants could score 200 runs at the loss of 5 wickets in 20 overs. In this way Punjab won the match by 54 runs.

Lucknow bowlers got defeated in front of Priyansh and Cooper

The biggest architects of this special victory of Punjab Kings were young batsmen Priyansh Arya and Cooper Connolly. Both of them turned half the match in their favor while the team was batting. Explosive innings of Priyansh Arya and Cooper Connolly thrashed the bowlers of Lucknow Super Giants and took the team to the score of 254 runs. Punjab achieved a historic feat in this match by scoring more than 250 runs and became the first team to do so against Lucknow.

Match winning partnership of 182 runs

Punjab Kings had a very aggressive start. Priyansh Arya and Cooper Connolly made an explosive partnership of 182 runs in just 80 balls for the second wicket. Both the batsmen maintained constant pressure on the Lucknow bowlers. Priyansh played a stormy innings of 93 runs in 37 balls, while Cooper Connolly scored 87 runs in 46 balls. Together they hit 16 sixes and 12 fours and made almost the entire match one-sided. However, both the players fell short of their century.

Scored 32 runs in Aiden Markram’s over.

The 13th over of the innings proved to be the most important and explosive over of this match. Aidan Markram bowled this over for Lucknow Super Giants, but he had to pay a heavy price. Cooper Connolly hit three consecutive sixes on the first three balls of the over, due to which the bowlers came under pressure. After this a wide ball came and then a run was scored. Priyansh Arya also showed his talent on the last two balls of the over. He hit a brilliant six on the fifth ball towards deep midwicket, while playing a straight shot on the last ball he hit another six. In this way, a total of 32 runs were scored in this single over, which completely changed the direction of the match.

Disappointing performance of Lucknow bowlers

In this match, the bowlers of Lucknow Super Giants were badly beaten. Apart from Prince Yadav, all the bowlers gave away runs with an economy above 10. If we talk about wickets, Prince Yadav and Manimaran Siddharth took 2 wickets each. Apart from this, Mohammed Shami and Mohsin Khan got 1-1 wicket.

batting of lucknow super giants

Lucknow Super Giants, who came to chase the huge target of 255 runs of Punjab Kings, had a great start. Ayush Badoni and Mitchell Marsh added 61 runs in the powerplay to put the team in a good position. But Badoni was out on the last ball of the sixth over and after this Marsh also returned to the pavilion after scoring 40 runs. By 11.1 overs, Lucknow had lost 2 wickets for 109 runs, but after this the team’s run rate slowed down and the pressure increased.

After this, Lucknow’s innings completely disintegrated and the team lost 4 wickets for 139 runs. Aiden Markram and Mukul Choudhary fought in the end, but could not reach the target. Lucknow team could score only 200 runs for 5 wickets in 20 overs and Punjab Kings won the match by 54 runs.