Punjab Kings vs Lucknow Super Giants: IPL H2H Record
By CricketTaken EditorialPublished Cricket in the Indian Premier League9 min read
Punjab lead Lucknow Super Giants 5-3 in eight Indian Premier League matches, and the split is chronological. Lucknow won three of the first four, between April 2022 and March 2024. Punjab have won all four since, two in 2025 and two in 2026, by eight wickets, 37 runs, 54 runs and seven wickets.
The other defining feature is the scoring. Three innings in this fixture have passed 235, and the bowling figures show what that has cost: of the fourteen bowlers who have taken the most wickets here, only one has an economy rate under eight an over.
Lucknow have hosted four of the eight at the Ekana Stadium and won only one of them. Punjab have hosted three, at three different grounds — the IS Bindra Stadium in 2023, Dharamsala in 2025 and New Chandigarh in 2026 — and won two. The eighth was in Pune in the 2022 season, when the whole competition was played in Maharashtra.
The eight meetings
| Season | Date | Venue | Scores | Won by | Margin | Player of the match |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 29 Apr | MCA Stadium, Pune | LSG 153/8; PBKS 133/8 | LSG | 20 runs | Krunal Pandya |
| 2023 | 15 Apr | Ekana Stadium, Lucknow | LSG 159/8; PBKS 161/8 | PBKS | 2 wickets | Sikandar Raza |
| 2023 | 28 Apr | IS Bindra Stadium, Mohali | LSG 257/5; PBKS 201 | LSG | 56 runs | Marcus Stoinis |
| 2024 | 30 Mar | Ekana Stadium, Lucknow | LSG 199/8; PBKS 178/5 | LSG | 21 runs | Mayank Yadav |
| 2025 | 1 Apr | Ekana Stadium, Lucknow | LSG 171/7; PBKS 177/2 | PBKS | 8 wickets | Prabhsimran Singh |
| 2025 | 4 May | HPCA Stadium, Dharamsala | PBKS 236/5; LSG 199/7 | PBKS | 37 runs | Prabhsimran Singh |
| 2026 | 19 Apr | New Chandigarh | PBKS 254/7; LSG 200/5 | PBKS | 54 runs | Priyansh Arya |
| 2026 | 23 May | Ekana Stadium, Lucknow | LSG 196/6; PBKS 200/3 | PBKS | 7 wickets | Shreyas Iyer |
Three totals above 235
Lucknow's 257 for 5 at the IS Bindra Stadium on 28 April 2023 is the highest total the fixture has produced and one of the largest either franchise has made anywhere. Marcus Stoinis hit 72 from 39, Kyle Mayers 54 from 22 and Nicholas Pooran 45 from 19, and Punjab were bowled out for 201 in reply, which is still the highest losing total in the pairing.
Punjab have answered twice. At Dharamsala in May 2025 they made 236 for 5 and won by 37, Prabhsimran Singh scoring 91 from 48. At New Chandigarh in April 2026 they made 254 for 7 and won by 54, Priyansh Arya hitting 93 from 37 with nine sixes and Cooper Connolly 87 from 46.
All three of those matches were won by the side batting first. Two of the three were won by more than fifty runs, and in both of those the chasing side passed 199 and was still not close.
Lucknow's ground has not been Lucknow's
| Venue | Matches | PBKS | LSG |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ekana Stadium, Lucknow | 4 | 3 | 1 |
| IS Bindra Stadium, Mohali | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| HPCA Stadium, Dharamsala | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| New Chandigarh | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| MCA Stadium, Pune | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Lucknow's only win in four attempts at home came on 30 March 2024, when they made 199 for 8 and held Punjab to 178 for 5, with Mayank Yadav taking 3 for 27 on his way to the match award. The other three at the Ekana have gone to Punjab: a two-wicket chase of 160 with three balls left in 2023, an eight-wicket chase of 172 with twenty-two balls left in 2025, and a seven-wicket chase of 197 with twelve balls left in 2026.
All three of Punjab's wins in Lucknow came chasing, and those are the only three successful chases in the fixture. Neither side has won this pairing batting second anywhere else.
Punjab's own hosting has been spread thin. The one match at the IS Bindra Stadium was the 257 defeat, and their two wins at home came at Dharamsala and New Chandigarh, at grounds they had not used for this fixture before.
Punjab's four in a row
Lucknow's three wins were built on containment rather than on scoring: 153 for 8 defended at the MCA Stadium in Pune in 2022, 199 for 8 defended in Lucknow in 2024, and the one heavy total in 2023. In two of the three, Punjab were held below 180.
Punjab's four consecutive wins since April 2025 have come with the bat in every case. They chased 172 and 197 and made 236 and 254. Their lowest score across the four is 177 for 2, and no Lucknow bowler has taken three wickets in any of them.
That switch coincides with a change in Punjab's top order. The four match awards in the run went to Prabhsimran Singh twice, Priyansh Arya and Shreyas Iyer, and Iyer, Arya and Cooper Connolly had not played in this fixture at all before 2025.
Iyer's hundred and the batting
| Batter | For | Innings | Runs | Strike rate | Best |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prabhsimran Singh | PBKS | 7 | 261 | 179 | 91 off 48 |
| Ayush Badoni | LSG | 8 | 253 | 163 | 74 off 40 |
| Shreyas Iyer | PBKS | 4 | 203 | 181 | 101 off 51 |
| Nicholas Pooran | LSG | 7 | 148 | 161 | 45 off 19 |
| Abdul Samad | LSG | 3 | 109 | 195 | 45 off 24 |
| KL Rahul | LSG | 4 | 107 | 126 | 74 off 56 |
| Marcus Stoinis | LSG | 4 | 107 | 162 | 72 off 39 |
| Cooper Connolly | PBKS | 2 | 105 | 188 | 87 off 46 |
| Priyansh Arya | PBKS | 4 | 102 | 200 | 93 off 37 |
Shreyas Iyer's 101 from 51 at the Ekana on 23 May 2026 is the only century the fixture has produced, and it came in a chase of 197 completed with two overs to spare. Prabhsimran Singh leads the record for runs, with two match awards and a strike rate of 179 across seven innings.
Ayush Badoni has batted in all eight matches, more than anyone else, for 253 runs at 163 with fifteen sixes — the most by any batter in the pairing. He has been Lucknow's most consistent contributor in a side whose bigger names have been intermittent here: Nicholas Pooran has 148 runs from seven innings without passing 45, and KL Rahul made 107 in four.
The two fastest scorers are both Punjab's and both recent. Priyansh Arya has 102 runs from 51 balls and Cooper Connolly 105 from 56, six innings between them and every one of those in 2025 or 2026.
Almost no cheap bowling
| Bowler | For | Innings | Wickets | Economy | Best |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arshdeep Singh | PBKS | 8 | 11 | 9.69 | 3/43 |
| Kagiso Rabada | PBKS | 4 | 9 | 10.13 | 4/38 |
| Sam Curran | PBKS | 3 | 7 | 8.82 | 3/31 |
| Mohsin Khan | LSG | 4 | 6 | 9.31 | 3/24 |
| Marco Jansen | PBKS | 4 | 6 | 8.06 | 2/37 |
| Ravi Bishnoi | LSG | 5 | 5 | 10.18 | 2/18 |
| Yuzvendra Chahal | PBKS | 4 | 5 | 9.19 | 2/25 |
| Krunal Pandya | LSG | 4 | 3 | 7.45 | 2/11 |
Arshdeep Singh has bowled in all eight matches for eleven wickets, the most in the fixture, at an economy of 9.69 — a figure that would look poor anywhere else and is close to par here. Krunal Pandya's 7.45 across four innings is the only economy rate under eight in the table, and his 2 for 11 in Pune in April 2022 is the cheapest four-over spell the pairing has seen.
Neither side has produced a five-wicket haul. The only four-wicket returns are Kagiso Rabada's 4 for 38 in that Pune match and Yash Thakur's 4 for 37 in Lucknow's 257-run innings in 2023 — and Thakur's came in the only match in which a bowler has taken four wickets and finished on the winning side.
Ravi Bishnoi's economy of 10.18 across five innings is the highest of any bowler here with more than three appearances, which for a wrist-spinner in a fixture with three 235-plus totals is less surprising than it looks.
Where it stands
Punjab's four-match run is the longest either side has managed and it is recent enough to be the most useful thing in the record. Before it, Lucknow led the fixture 3-1.
The scoring has climbed in steps rather than smoothly. The first two matches produced no total above 199. The six since have produced nine innings above 195 and three above 235, and both sides have now passed 250 once.
Only one of the eight has gone to the last over: the two-wicket chase at the Ekana in April 2023, finished with three balls left. Every other result was settled by twenty runs or more, or with at least two overs unused, which is unusual in a fixture this closely matched on paper.
Fuller histories are on the Punjab Kings and Lucknow Super Giants pages, the competition on the Indian Premier League hub, and the domestic game around it under cricket in India.
Sources and method
All eight Punjab–Lucknow Super Giants matches from April 2022 to May 2026 were compiled from ball-by-ball scorecard data, with results, venues, margins, match awards and innings figures checked against ESPNcricinfo Statsguru and the official IPL archive. The record is complete to the end of the 2026 season.
Figures are restricted to this head-to-head, attributed by the franchise a player was with when the match was played. Wickets exclude run-outs. Strike rates and economy rates are rounded, and where a bowler has fewer than four innings the figures describe those spells rather than measuring anything wider.
"Highest losing total" and "lowest completed total" both count only innings in which a side was bowled out or batted its full twenty overs. The Ekana Cricket Stadium is listed officially as the Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Cricket Stadium and shortened here; the Maharaja Yadavindra Singh International Cricket Stadium appears as both Mullanpur and New Chandigarh in official listings and is given here under the latter. The comparison of eras in the closing section is computed from the innings list rather than taken from a published summary.