WATCH: Why Bartlett missing the field when ball went for boundary counted as five runs?

The Punjab Kings and Kolkata Knight Riders are taking on each other in the most thrilling game of the ongoing Indian Premier League 2025. The game has been a seesaw so far since the first ball of the game. PBKS were bundled out at the score of just 111 runs in just 15.3 overs in the first innings.

Furthermore, a moment came in the second innings during KKR’s run-chase when the debutant PBKS pacer tried to save a boundary, but things took a comic turnaround. The moment came in the eighth over of the KKR innings when Yuzvendra Chahal was bowling to Venkatesh Iyer, and the latter played a sweep shot towards the long leg region. 

Here's why Bartlett's boundary misfield conceded 5 runs

PBKS’ debutant Xavier Bartlett successfully picked up the ball very clearly before getting into the shape of throwing it back to the pitch but unfortunately, the ball slipped from his hand and went out of the boundary. As he had already initiated the process of throwing the ball back so, four runs were counted as overthrow in addition to the single ran by the batters.

The video of this hilarious and comic incident involving a big and unexpected error made by Xavier Bartlett also went viral on social media as soon as it was shared by a user on X (formerly Twitter).

Here’s the video:

Xavier Bartlett brother what?? 😭😭#PBKSvKKR #KKRvsPBKS#PBKSvsKKRpic.twitter.com/htltViRyBb

— A D U (@cricfootadnan) April 15, 2025

Speaking of the action of the thrilling encounter between Punjab Kinga and Kolkata Knight Riders, the hosts' skipper Shryeas Iyer won the toss and decided to bat first. Batting first, the Kings were bundled out at the score of just 111 runs in 15.3 overs. 

Harshit Rana scalped 3 wickets, alongside 2 wickets each, bagged by Varun Chakrvarthy and Sunil Narine. Besides these three, Vaibhav Arora and Anrich Nortje also picked a wicket each for KKR in the first innings. 

While chasing a low target of 112 runs, KKR batters completely fumbled against the PBKS bowling attack and were bundled out at the score of just 95 runs in 15.1 overs. Eventually, Shreyas Iyer-led PBKS managed to register a memorable 16-run win against KKR to defend the lowest total in the history of the Indian Premier League. 

The veteran leg spinner Yuzvendra Chahal scalped 4 wickets at just 28 runs in his 4 overs for PBKS in the second innings, alongside 3 wickets bagged by Marco Jansen. Xavier Bartlett, Arshdeep Singh and Glenn Maxwell also claimed a wicket each to help their side register an unbelievable victory against the defending champions.