Captain Shreyas Iyer brought up his first Indian Premier League century with a match-winning six as Punjab Kings beat Lucknow Super Giants by seven wickets to keep their play-off hopes alive.<\/p>\n
Iyer set up the win with a 140-run third-wicket partnership with Prabhsimran Singh (69) and then brought up his 51-ball ton in style as Kings chased a target of 197 with two overs to spare.<\/p>\n
Victory in the final match of their regular season ends a run of six consecutive defeats for Kings, who won six of their opening seven fixtures, with the other game a no result.<\/p>\n
They move above Rajasthan Royals into the fourth and final play-off place, but could be overtaken by either Royals or Kolkata Knight Riders, who both play on the final day of the regular season on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Lucknow lost Arshin Kulkarni for a golden duck and Nicholas Pooran for two inside the first three overs, but Josh Inglis made 72 from the top of the order as the bottom side reached 196-6 after being put into bat.<\/p>\n
Ayush Badoni (43 off 18 balls), Rishabh Pant (26) and Abdul Samad (37 not out) all chipped in runs for the home side, who finish their 14-game campaign with four wins and 10 defeats.<\/p>\n
Kings lost Priyansh Arya, caught by Arjun Tendulkar off Mohammed Shami, from the first ball of their reply, and the India seamer bowled Cooper Connolly (18) two overs later.<\/p>\n
Shreyas and Prabhsimran settled any nerves as they dominated the Lucknow attack, with their partnership eventually ended when Tendulkar trapped the latter lbw at the end of the 15th over. <\/p>\n
Five short of his century and needing three for victory, Shreyas finished the match in memorable fashion, hitting his fifth six of the match high over long-on.<\/p>\n
Scorecard<\/a>; Table<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Captain Shreyas Iyer brought up his first Indian Premier League century with a match-winning six as Punjab Kings…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":690187,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-690186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=690186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/690187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}