“Muscoroy, you are in Lucknow,” is the tagline often associated with the city of Nawabs. However, Punjab Kings fast bowlers Arsdeep Singh The famous slogan got an interesting twist after his team destroyed Lucknow Supergiants (LSG) in an IPL 2026 match on Sunday. “Ghabroy, you are in Milanpur,” Arsdeep Singh said in a reel posted on his Instagram account after the match in Milanpur, New Chandigarh.
Punjab Kings registered a 54-run win over LSG, helped by a 182-run partnership between Priyansh Arya and Cooper Connolly For the second wicket in the first innings. The stand put the match out of Lucknow’s reach even before the chase began.The 24-year-old from Delhi, whose innings came off just 37 balls, joined hands with Cooper Connolly, Australia’s most talked-about next-generation batting star, who also impressed with class in his 45-ball 87 as Punjab Kings posted 254 for 7 in 20 overs.Lucknow Supergiants responded with 200/5. Mitchell Marsh, Rishabh Pant and Aiden Markram started, but the team could not form a partnership and lost their third match in a row.Punjab Kings are at the top of the table with five wins and one draw from six matches.Lucknow had an early chance when Connolly survived an LBW appeal from Mohsin Khan on four after Pant opted not to review. Replay shows that the ball must have hit the stumps. Connolly then added 182 runs with Arya.Arya completed his fifty in 19 balls. Connolly later hit Aidan Markram for three consecutive sixes, and Arya hit two more sixes in the same over, which moved to 32 runs.In the chase, Marsh scored 40 and Ayush Baduni scored 35. Pant added 43, but intermittent wickets and a rising required rate held Lucknow back.Markram scored 42 off 22 balls and despite a few drop catches by the Punjab fielders from Lucknow, they lost their third match in a row.
