Shreyas Iyer's Century Leads Punjab Kings to Victory Over Lucknow Super Giants

Kathmandu. With the help of Shreyas Iyer's excellent century innings, Punjab Kings kept their playoff chances alive by defeating Lucknow Super Giants by 7 wickets in the Indian Premier League.

Punjab completed the challenging target of 197 runs set by Lucknow with only 12 balls remaining in the 18th over, losing just 3 wickets. Shreyas Iyer played a explosive batting innings of an unbeaten 101 off 51 balls in Punjab's victory. He was strongly supported by Prabhsimran Singh, who scored 69 runs off 39 balls, while Cooper Connolly contributed 18 runs off 10 balls. In bowling for Lucknow, Mohammed Shami took 2 wickets and Arjun Tendulkar took 1 wicket.