Punjab beats Lucknow to go second in IPL and Kolkata stays in top-four contention

DHARAMSALA, India (AP) — Prabhsimran Singh led the way with 91 off 48 balls as Punjab Kings beat Lucknow Super Giants by 37 runs to go second in the Indian Premier League on Sunday.

Singh’s fourth half-century of the season included seven sixes and six fours as Punjab scored 236-5 in 20 overs. Skipper Shreyas Iyer contributed 45 off 25 balls, hitting two sixes.

Lucknow’s chase finished at 199-7 despite Ayush Badoni’s 74 off 40 balls, and the Super Giants took a blow in its bid for a top-four place. Lucknow is now seventh after 11 games – with five wins and six losses. Punjab has 15 points from 11 games and sits between leader Royal Challengers Bengaluru and Mumbai Indians. Gujarat Titans completes the top four.

Earlier, Kolkata Knight Riders beat Rajasthan Royals by one run to keep its top-four bid alive.

Stand-in skipper Riyan Parag smashed five sixes in one over but still finished on the losing team as Rajasthan’s chase fell agonizingly short.

Parag hit eight sixes overall in his 45-ball 95. Rajasthan finished on 205-8 in its 20 overs with Varun Chakravarthy (2-32), Harshit Rana (2-41) and Moeen Ali (2-43) taking six wickets between them.

This was after Andre Russell’s 57 not out off 25 balls propelled Kolkata to a total of 206-4.

Kolkata is now sixth in the points’ table, with five wins in 11 games, and can still make the top four. Rajasthan is eighth with its ninth loss in 12 games, and was already eliminated along with Chennai Super Kings.

Punjab batters lit up its second home despite losing hard-hitting opener Priyansh Arya for one.

Singh raced to 50 off 30 balls, adding 48 off 22 with Josh Inglis (30) and then another 78 off 47 balls with skipper Iyer.

It was the second partnership that really fueled Punjab’s score – Singh and Iyer hit nine sixes overall between them.

Iyer fell against the run of play – out caught off Digvesh Rathi’s leg spin – but Singh carried Punjab past 200.

It was Singh’s highest score of the season and he fell nine short of a second IPL hundred. Shashank Singh hit 33 not out off 15 balls as Lucknow faced a challenging target.

The Super Giants lost both openers cheaply – Arshdeep Singh bowled Aiden Markram for 13, while Mitchell Marsh was caught for a five-ball duck.

Arshdeep trapped Nicholas Pooran lbw for six and Lucknow was down to 27-3 in 4.2 overs.

Rishabh Pant fell for 18 off 17 balls – another indifferent innings – but Badoni’s half-century revived Lucknow.

Abdul Samad hit 45 off 24 balls later in the innings.

Opting to bat first, Kolkata lost Sunil Narine for 11. Rahmanullah Gurbaz made an early impact with 35 off 25, including four fours and a six.

He added 56 off 33 balls with Ajinkya Rahane, who scored 30 off 24 before he was caught behind off Parag in the 13th over.

Kolkata was well placed at 111-3 in the 13th over. Russell added 61 off 33 balls with Angkrish Raghuvanshi (44 off 31).

Their partnership allowed Kolkata to get within sniffing distance of 200. Russell hit 50 off 22 balls with six sixes and four fours – his first half-century of the season. He also added 34 off 11 balls with Rinku Singh (19 not out), who hit two sixes.

In reply, Rajasthan lost teenage batter Vaibhav Suryavanshi (4) early. It became a double blow as Kunal Rathore fell for a five-ball duck to leave the team at 8-2 in the second over.

Yashasvi Jaiswal struck a calm 34 off 21 balls, with five fours and a six, to revive the innings. He added 58 off 31 balls with stand-in skipper Parag, who took charge after the opener fell in the seventh over to Moeen Ali.

While Parag went about his business, Kolkata’s spinners put Rajasthan in a bind. Chakravarthy led the way – he struck twice in the eighth over – bowling Dhruv Jurel and Wanindu Hasranga in the space of three balls, both batters out for ducks.

Rajasthan had lost three wickets in six deliveries when Parag found Shimron Hetmyer for company. They added 92 off 48 balls to resurrect the chase.

Parag scored his first half-century of the season off 27 balls and then went into power-hitting mode. He hit five successive sixes off Ali in the 13th over, and then made it six out of six, hitting his first ball of the next over from Chakravarthy for six as well.

Impact sub Rana got the breakthrough, dismissing Hetmyer, but Parag’s charge had put Rajasthan back in the game.

Shubham Dubey, impact sub for Rajasthan, scored 25 not out off 14 balls to take the chase into the final over after Rana also dismissed Parag in the 18th over.

Needing 22 off the last six balls, Dubey brought it down to three off three but then was run out on the last ball trying to take the game to a Super Over.

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Punjab Kings' Prabhsimran Singh reacts as he walks off the field after losing his wicket during the Indian Premier League cricket match between Lucknow Super Giants and Punjab Kings at Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association Stadium in Dharamshala, India, Sunday, May 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Ashwini Bhatia)

Lucknow Super Giants' Ayush Badoni celebrates after scoring fifty runs during the Indian Premier League cricket match between Lucknow Super Giants and Punjab Kings at Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association Stadium in Dharamshala, India, Sunday, May 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Ashwini Bhatia)

Lucknow Super Giants' Ayush Badoni plays a shot during the Indian Premier League cricket match between Lucknow Super Giants and Punjab Kings at Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association Stadium in Dharamshala, India, Sunday, May 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Ashwini Bhatia)

Punjab Kings' Shashank Singh bats during the Indian Premier League cricket match between Lucknow Super Giants and Punjab Kings at Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association Stadium in Dharamshala, India, Sunday, May 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Ashwini Bhatia)

Rajasthan Royals' captain Riyan Parag bats during the Indian Premier League cricket match between Kolkata Knight Riders and Rajashtan Royals at Eden Gardens in Kolkata, India, Sunday, May 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Bikas Das)

Rajasthan Royals' Jofra Archer celebrates the wicket of Kolkata Knight Riders' Angkrish Raghuvanshi during the Indian Premier League cricket match between Kolkata Knight Riders and Rajashtan Royals at Eden Gardens in Kolkata, India, Sunday, May 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Bikas Das)

Kolkata Knight Riders' Andre Russell bats during the Indian Premier League cricket match between Kolkata Knight Riders and Rajashtan Royals at Eden Gardens in Kolkata, India, Sunday, May 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Bikas Das)

Kolkata Knight Riders Vaibhav Arora and Harshit Rana celebrate after winning the Indian Premier League cricket match against Rajashtan Royals at Eden Gardens in Kolkata, India, Sunday, May 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Bikas Das)

Kolkata Knight Riders players celebrate after winning the Indian Premier League cricket match against Rajashtan Royals at Eden Gardens in Kolkata, India, Sunday, May 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Bikas Das)

Kolkata Knight Riders' captain Ajinkya Rahane (3) celebrates with teammates after taking the catch to dismiss Rajasthan Royals' Vaibhav Suryavanshi during the Indian Premier League cricket match between Kolkata Knight Riders and Rajashtan Royals at Eden Gardens in Kolkata, India, Sunday, May 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Bikas Das)

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Federal agents carrying out immigration arrests in Minnesota's Twin Cities region already shaken by the fatal shooting of a woman rammed the door of one home Sunday and pushed their way inside, part of what the Department of Homeland Security has called its largest enforcement operation ever.

In a dramatic scene similar to those playing out across Minneapolis, agents captured a man in the home just minutes after pepper spraying protesters outside who had confronted the heavily armed federal agents. Along the residential street, protesters honked car horns, banged on drums and blew whistles in attempts to disrupt the operation.

Video of the clash taken by The Associated Press showed some agents pushing back protesters while a distraught woman later emerged from the house with a document that federal agents presented to arrest the man. Signed by an immigration officer, the document — unlike a warrant signed by a judge — does not authorize forced entry into a private residence. A warrant signed by an immigration officer only authorizes arrest in a public area.

Immigrant advocacy groups have conducted extensive “know-your-rights” campaigns urging people not to open their doors unless agents have a court order signed by a judge.

But within minutes of ramming the door in a neighborhood filled with single-family homes, the handcuffed man was led away.

More than 2,000 immigration arrests have been made in Minnesota since the enforcement operation began at the beginning of December, said Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem told Fox News on Sunday that the administration would send additional federal agents to Minnesota to protect immigration officers and continue enforcement.

The Twin Cities — the latest target in President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement campaign — is bracing for what is next after 37-year-old Renee Good was shot and killed by an immigration officer on Wednesday.

“We’re seeing a lot of immigration enforcement across Minneapolis and across the state, federal agents just swarming around our neighborhoods,” said Jason Chavez, a Minneapolis city councilmember. “They’ve definitely been out here.”

Chavez, the son of Mexican immigrants who represents an area with a growing immigrant population, said he is closely monitoring information from chat groups about where residents are seeing agents operating.

People holding whistles positioned themselves in freezing temperatures on street corners Sunday in the neighborhood where Good was killed, watching for any signs of federal agents.

More than 20,000 people have taken part in a variety of trainings to become “observers” of enforcement activities in Minnesota since the 2024 election, said Luis Argueta, a spokesperson for Unidos MN, a local human rights organization .

“It’s a role that people choose to take on voluntarily, because they choose to look out for their neighbors,” Argueta said.

The protests have been largely peaceful, but residents remained anxious. On Monday, Minneapolis public schools will start offering remote learning for the next month in response to concerns that children might feel unsafe venturing out while tensions remain high.

Many schools closed last week after Good’s shooting and the upheaval that followed.

While the enforcement activity continues, two of the state’s leading Democrats said that the investigation into Good's shooting death should not be overseen solely by the federal government.

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and U.S. Sen. Tina Smith said in separate interviews Sunday that state authorities should be included in the investigation because the federal government has already made clear what it believes happened.

“How can we trust the federal government to do an objective, unbiased investigation, without prejudice, when at the beginning of that investigation they have already announced exactly what they saw — what they think happened," Smith said on ABC’s "This Week."

The Trump administration has defended the officer who shot Good in her car, saying he was protecting himself and fellow agents and that Good had “weaponized” her vehicle.

Todd Lyons, acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, defended the officer on Fox News Channel’s “The Sunday Briefing.”

"That law enforcement officer had milliseconds, if not short time to make a decision to save his life and his other fellow agents,” he said.

Lyons also said the administration’s enforcement operations in Minnesota wouldn't be needed “if local jurisdictions worked with us to turn over these criminally illegal aliens once they are already considered a public safety threat by the locals.”

The killing of Good by an ICE officer and the shooting of two people by federal agents in Portland, Oregon, led to dozens of protests in cities across the country over the weekend, including New York, Los Angeles, Washington D.C. and Oakland, California.

Contributing were Associated Press journalists Giovanna Dell’Orto in Minneapolis; Thomas Strong in Washington; Bill Barrow in Atlanta; Christopher Weber in Los Angeles; and John Seewer in Toledo, Ohio.

A woman gets into an altercation with a federal immigration officer as officers make an arrest Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/John Locher)

A federal immigration officer deploys pepper spray as officers make an arrest Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/John Locher)

A family member, center, reacts after federal immigration officers make an arrest Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Bystanders are treated after being pepper sprayed as federal immigration officers make an arrest Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/John Locher)

A family member reacts after federal immigration officers make an arrest Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Federal agents look on after detaining a person during a patrol in Minneapolis, Minn., Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026. (Christopher Katsarov/The Canadian Press via AP)

Bystanders react after a man was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents during a traffic stop, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026, in Robbinsdale, Minn. (AP Photo/John Locher)

People stand near a memorial at the site where Renee Good was fatally shot by an ICE agent, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Jen Golbeck)

A man looks out of a car window after being detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents during a traffic stop, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026, in Robbinsdale, Minn. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Border Patrol agents detain a man, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Adam Gray)

People shout toward Border Patrol agents making an arrest, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Adam Gray)

Demonstrators protest outside the White House in Washington, Saturday, Jan. 10, 2026, against the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent who fatally shot Renee Good in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey holds a news conference on Saturday, Jan. 10, 2026, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Jen Golbeck)

Protesters react as they visit a makeshift memorial during a rally for Renee Good, who was fatally shot by an ICE officer earlier in the week, Saturday, Jan. 10, 2026, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/John Locher)