The 40th match of IPL 2026 was very high-scoring. This match was played between Punjab Kings (PBKS) and Rajasthan Royals (RR), which took place on 28 April at the Maharaja Yadvendra Singh International Cricket Stadium, Mullanpur. In this match, Punjab, batting first, gave a big target of 223 runs to Rajasthan. Rajasthan Royals achieved this target by batting brilliantly and won the match by 6 wickets. With this defeat, Punjab Kings have faced defeat for the first time in IPL 2026.

There has been no significant change in the points table after this match. Only a slight change has been seen in the net run rate. Now Punjab Kings remain on the top of the table after 6 wins, 1 loss and 1 match cancellation in 8 matches. The team has 13 points and their net run rate is +1.043. On the other hand, Rajasthan Royals have registered 6 wins and 3 losses in 9 matches. The team is currently at third position in the points table. He has 12 runs and a net run rate of +0.617.

PBKS innings

Punjab Kings started their innings brilliantly. In the powerplay itself, the team scored 65 runs after losing 1 wicket. After this, the pace of the batsmen did not decrease even in the middle overs and between 7 and 15 overs, they added 85 runs at the loss of 2 wickets. Even in the last overs, Punjab batsmen continued batting aggressively. Between 16 and 20 overs, the team scored 72 runs losing only 1 wicket. The result was that PBKS scored a big score of 222 runs after losing 4 wickets in 20 overs.

Marcus Stoinis scored the highest 62 runs for Punjab Kings and remained unbeaten. Whereas Prabhsimran Singh played a brilliant inning of 59 runs. Captain Shreyas Iyer and Cooper Connolly also added 30 runs each. Yashraj Punja took 2 wickets for Rajasthan. Apart from this, Joffra Archer and Nandre Berger got 1-1 wicket.

Rajasthan’s innings

Rajasthan Royals’ batting was much better than Punjab Kings. The team scored 84 runs losing only 1 wicket in the powerplay. After this, Rajasthan’s run rate did not decrease even in the middle overs and between 7 and 15 overs, the team added 81 runs after losing 3 wickets. Then in the death overs, Rajasthan scored 63 more runs without losing any wicket. The result was that Rajasthan Royals scored 228 runs for 4 wickets in 19.2 overs and won the match by 6 wickets with 4 balls remaining.

Donovan Ferreira scored the highest 52 runs for Rajasthan Royals and remained unbeaten. Whereas Yashasvi Jaiswal played an inning of 51 runs. Apart from these, Vaibhav Suryavanshi scored 43 runs and Shubham Dubey scored 31 not out. On the other hand, for Punjab, Yuzvendra Chahal alone took 3 wickets, while Arshdeep Singh got 1 wicket.