{"id":22071,"date":"2025-04-01T19:09:41","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T13:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=583278"},"modified":"2025-04-01T19:09:41","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T13:39:41","slug":"lsg-vs-pbks-live-punjab-kings-opt-to-bowl-first-lockie-ferguson-makes-debut-for-punjab-kings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/ipl\/lsg-vs-pbks-live-punjab-kings-opt-to-bowl-first-lockie-ferguson-makes-debut-for-punjab-kings\/","title":{"rendered":"LSG vs PBKS Live: Punjab Kings opt to bowl first, Lockie Ferguson makes debut for Punjab Kings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Punjab Kings captain Shreyas Iyer won the toss and opted to bowl first against Lucknow Super Giants in Match 13 of IPL 2025, being played at the Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Cricket Stadium in Lucknow.<\/p>\n<article class=\"w-full text-token-text-primary\" dir=\"auto\" data-testid=\"conversation-turn-247\" data-scroll-anchor=\"true\">\n<div class=\"text-base my-auto mx-auto py-5 px-6\">\n<div class=\"mx-auto flex flex-1 text-base gap-4 md:gap-5 lg:gap-6 md:max-w-3xl lg:max-w-[40rem] xl:max-w-[48rem] group\/turn-messages focus-visible:outline-none\">\n<div class=\"group\/conversation-turn relative flex w-full min-w-0 flex-col agent-turn @xs\/thread:px-0 @sm\/thread:px-1.5 @md\/thread:px-4\">\n<div class=\"relative flex-col gap-1 md:gap-3\">\n<div class=\"flex max-w-full flex-col flex-grow\">\n<div class=\"min-h-8 text-message relative flex w-full flex-col items-end gap-2 whitespace-normal break-words text-start [.text-message+&]:mt-5\" dir=\"auto\" data-message-author-role=\"assistant\" data-message-id=\"d8457f29-5f9f-42c6-9e3b-fd8f58d73b2c\" data-message-model-slug=\"gpt-4o\">\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-col gap-1 empty:hidden first:pt-[3px]\">\n<div class=\"markdown prose w-full break-words dark:prose-invert dark\">\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"307\" data-end=\"635\">Explaining the decision, Iyer said, \u201cIt\u2019s a new ground, new pitch so we are going to chase. The players have the freedom to express themselves. You have to play the situation and the important goal is to win.\u201d He also confirmed Lockie Ferguson\u2019s inclusion in the playing XI, with the fast bowler receiving his debut cap earlier.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"637\" data-end=\"875\">Lucknow Super Giants captain Rishabh Pant, on the other hand, said he too would\u2019ve preferred to bowl but is happy to bat first. \u201cThere are a lot of people who have come to support us, we are definitely going to give our best,\u201d Pant added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"877\" data-end=\"1164\">The match is set to be a closely contested one on a red-soil pitch, expected to assist both seamers and spinners. Punjab Kings are riding high on confidence after scoring 243 in their opener against Gujarat Titans, with standout performances from Iyer, Priyansh Arya, and Shashank Singh.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1166\" data-end=\"1382\">Lucknow too have momentum on their side after a strong performance against SRH. Nicholas Pooran and Mitchell Marsh are in sublime form, although the team will hope their middle-order and skipper Pant step up tonight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1384\" data-end=\"1400\"><strong data-start=\"1384\" data-end=\"1400\">Playing XIs:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1402\" data-end=\"1604\"><strong data-start=\"1402\" data-end=\"1419\">Punjab Kings:<\/strong> Priyansh Arya, Prabhsimran Singh (wk), Shreyas Iyer (c), Shashank Singh, Marcus Stoinis, Glenn Maxwell, Suryansh Shedge, Marco Jansen, Lockie Ferguson, Yuzvendra Chahal, Arshdeep Singh<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1606\" data-end=\"1803\"><strong data-start=\"1606\" data-end=\"1631\">Lucknow Super Giants:<\/strong> Mitchell Marsh, Aiden Markram, Nicholas Pooran, Rishabh Pant (wk\/c), Ayush Badoni, David Miller, Abdul Samad, Digvesh Singh Rathi, Shardul Thakur, Avesh Khan, Ravi Bishnoi<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<div class=\"pointer-events-none h-px w-px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-edge=\"true\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Punjab Kings captain Shreyas Iyer won the toss and opted to bowl first against Lucknow Super Giants in Match 13\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":42366,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[3801,772],"class_list":["post-22071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ipl","tag-ipl","tag-lockie-ferguson"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}