Yesterday IPL match result: Vaibhav Sooryavanshi on fire again; Donovan Ferreira, RR chase down 223 vs PBKS
In the end, it came down to two men who refused to read from anyone else’s script — Shubham Dubey, walking in as an ‘impact sub’ with Rajasthan Royals’ chase wobbling, and Donovan Ferreira, who took one look at what Dubey was doing and decided he wanted a piece of it too.
NEW CHANDIGARH: In the end, it came down to two men who refused to read from anyone else’s script. Shubham Dubey, walking in as an Impact Sub with Rajasthan Royals’ chase wobbling, and Donovan Ferreira, who took one look at what Dubey was doing and decided he wanted a piece of it too. Between them, an unbroken 77-run stand turned a match Punjab Kings thought they had won into one Rajasthan Royals emphatically claimed by six wickets at the Maharaja Yadavindra Singh International Stadium here on Tuesday.
It was Punjab’s first defeat of IPL-2026. It had to come eventually, but it would hurt Shreyas Iyer & Co. a little more because they had done so much right.
It began with Vaibhav Sooryavanshi (43 off 16b; 3x4, 5x6) doing what he does with extraordinary regularity these days. Two defences to start, and then the 15-year-old was at it again. Arshdeep Singh went for a six and two boundaries in the first over.
Lockie Ferguson, bowling at 145-plus, was treated with utter disdain as Sooryavanshi hit the Kiwi fast bowler for two sixes and a boundary, one of those sixes clearing the ropes faster than the ball had arrived. Arshdeep had the last laugh with a low full toss that Sooryavanshi skied in his eagerness to clear the boundary yet again. A boy playing like a man.
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