Red was the dominant colour on a cold night at the foothills of the Himalayas. The gorgeous HPCA stadium’s aesthetically designed pavilion-roofs were lit up in red. There were plenty of red shirts in the big crowd. The Punjab Kings were in red, of course.

And the man in red hot form, Prabhsimran Singh, did it again. His muscular 48-ball 91 (6×4, 7×6) powered Punjab Kings to a 37-run win over Lucknow Super Giants on Sunday. The host’s 236 for five proved too tall a score.

It didn’t take Prabhsimran long to get going. It was fireworks mostly from the other end too, though the personnel kept changing.

Josh Inglis, promoted to No. 3, clobbered 30 off 14 balls (1×4, 4×6), skipper Shreyas Iyer, dropping himself to No. 4, cracked 45 off 25 balls (4×4, 2×6) and there was also a hard-hit cameo from Shashank Singh (33 n.o., 15b, 4×4, 1×6).

The only one to miss out the party was Priyansh Arya. He fell to left-arm seamer Akash Singh, playing his first match for LSG.

Inglis straightaway went after Mayank Yadav, one of India’s few genuine fast bowlers. The quick is playing only his second match on his return from injury. And he wasn’t bowling anywhere near as fast as he was last year. Inglis ensured he did not settle into a rhythm, as he hit him for three sixes in a row.

Prabhsimran, who had been dropped on 21 by Nicholas Pooran at mid-off off Avesh Khan, unleashed some mighty hits, such as the six off Avesh over long-off, to take the game away from LSG.

And the Super Giants were hardly in the game as they chased the daunting target. Arshdeep Singh was the main reason for that, getting rid of the top three inside five overs.

A sixth-wicket stand of 81 between Ayush Badoni (74, 40b, 5×4, 5×6) and Abdul Samad (45, 24b, 2×4, 4×6) delayed the inevitable. But one of the images of the night was LSG captain Rishabh Pant’s bat going to the square leg and the ball to point, in Shashank’s hands.