New Delhi: Arsdeep Singh Punjab Kings faced a nightmare as they faced Lucknow Supergiants in their crucial IPL 2026 clash at the Ekna Cricket Stadium in Lucknow on Saturday.The left-arm fast bowler was expected to lead Punjab’s bowling attack, provide early success and maintain the scoring rate. Instead, he was picked apart by the LSG batsmen, who attacked him relentlessly throughout his tenure.Arsdeep bowled three overs and conceded 52 runs at an economy rate of 17.30. His costly spell included four wides.The poor outing also saw Arshad register an unpopular record – the most instances of 50-plus runs by a PBKS bowler in IPL history.
- PBKS bowlers with 50+ runs most often:
- 7 – Arsdeep Singh
- 4 – Sam Curran
- 3 – Kagiso Rabada.
- 3 – Muhammad Shami
- 3 – Xavier Bartlett
LSG managed 196 for six, with a brilliant innings from Josh Inglis, who scored a typically aggressive 72 runs.Inglis and Rishabh Pant (26 off 21 balls) put on a 65-run partnership for the fourth wicket as LSG slumped to 69 for three in the seventh over.The Australian wicketkeeper-batsman launched an early onslaught, hitting Arshad for four fours in the opening over for 16 runs.Ayush Baduni then took charge after dismissing opener Arshin Kulkarni in place of Mitchell Marsh and Nicholas Pooran.Baduni played a sensational cameo of 43 runs off just 18 balls and added 49 runs for the third wicket with Inglis.The young batsman tore through Azmatullah Umarzai, scoring 24 runs in a brutal sequence of 4,6,6,4 in the fifth over.The counter-attack helped LSG recover strongly from early setbacks and end the Powerplay at 66 for two.Baduni’s entertaining knock ended when Prabhasmaran Singh completed a quick stumping on Yuzvinder Chahal, with DRS confirming the dismissal.Inglis, meanwhile, continued his onslaught and hit Arsdeep with consecutive sixes, fours and fours to enter another devastating phase of his innings.In all, Inglis hit six fours and two sixes off Arshad, adding to the PBKS pacer’s difficult season.Pant, who survived Shreyas Iyer’s drop catch at Chahal’s covers for 18, struggled to find fluency but provided solid support for Inglis.The Australians reached their fifty in just 28 balls before Pant finally fell to Chahal, who finished with figures of 2/25.Inglis was eventually dismissed by part-time bowler Shashank Singh, with Iyer taking a comfortable catch at long-on after straightening himself.Abdul Samad scored an unbeaten 37 off 20 balls and hit two big hits, but once Mukul Chaudhary fell cheaply to Marco Johnson (2/33), LSG’s hopes of crossing the 200-run mark were dashed.Meanwhile, legendary batsman Sachin Tendulkar’s son Arjun Tendulkar made a rare appearance in the IPL, featuring in just his sixth match in the tournament.
