Punjab Kings defend 125 despite Holder heroics

Jason Holder's brilliant all-round show wasn't enough to prevent Sunrisers Hyderabad from going down by five runs against Punjab Kings in Sharjah. Holder first produced figures of 3 for 19 to keep PBKS to 125 for 7 and then smashed unbeaten 47 off 29 - a knock that had five sixes - but couldn't push the game to a Super Over when his team needed six off the last ball to tie the game. Ravi Bishnoi was the star for PBKS with his three middle-order wickets hurting SRH's chances.

PBKS' early realisation

The match was played on the adjacent pitch that was used for the RCB-CSK game and hence had the usual amount of wear and tear with players running over it. Stuck in, both KL Rahul and Mayank Agarwal realised repeating Virat Kohli and Devdutt Padikkal's