Punjab Kings scored their lowest score this season in the 31st match of IPL 2025 against Kolkata Knight Riders. Punjab failed in every region. Then his fielders gave additional runs to KKR by fielding poorly. During KKR’s innings, there was an incident in the 8th over that all the people were stunned. This benefited KKR and 5 runs in his score. Due to the mistake of Punjab Kings Xavier Bartlett, where KKR was going to get only one run. He got five runs there. Such misfielding has been done for the first time in IPL history.
What happened that KKR got five runs
During KKR’s innings, Yajuvendra Chahal brought the 8th over from Punjab Kings. On the fifth ball of this over, KKR batsman Venkatesh Iyer sweep the long leg. Punjab Kings fielder Xavier Bartlet ran to his left and picked up the ball. Then when she turned to throw the ball towards the wicketkeeper, the ball slipped from her hand and went across the boundary. In this way, four runs were added to KKR’s score as overthrow, besides the batsmen had also taken a run. Such Miss Fielding is the first time in IPL history.
Xavier Bartlett made such a improved mistake
After this, on the first ball of the 10th over, Xavier Bartlett corrected his mistake. It happened that on Chahal’s ball, Bartlet caught a good catch by diving Angkrish Raghuvanshi on the backward point. Angkrish Raghuvanshi scored 37 runs in 28 balls, including 5 fours and a six. After this, KKR fell two wickets in the 12th over. In the 12th over, Yuzvendra Chahal threw flying outside the third ball of stump of the over. Rinku Singh came out of the pitch in the process of taking a single. Wicketkeeper Josh English stumped him. The fourth ball of the same over was thrown by Chahal flytred, Ramandeep Singh went to sweep, but caught Shreyas Iyer in leg slip. Ramandeep could not even open an account. Yajuvendra Chahal bowled brilliantly for Punjab and sent 4 players to the pavilion for 28 runs in 4 overs.