India, April 2 -- Controversies regarding pitches in the IPL 2025 refuse to die after Zaheer Khan, the Lucknow Super Giants mentor, questioned the nature of the surface used for the team's home game against Punjab Kings on Tuesday. Lucknow suffered their second defeat of the season, losing to PBKS by eight wickets, with Zaheer partially blaming the defeat on the curator. LSG were probably hopeful of a more spin-friendly surface, but pacers ruled the roost, with Arshdeep Singh picking up three wickets, with Lockie Ferguson and Marco Jansen taking a wicket each as well, to bowl keep Lucknow to 171/7 in 20 overs.

In reply, Lucknow's bowlers could only pick 2 wickets, both by mystery spinner Digvesh Singh Rathi, as Punjab chased down the tar...