Watch: "Don't want to be Punjab Kings" — Jofra Archer mocks PBKS after IPL 2026 Eliminator win

Just after the Rajasthan Royals’ 47-run victory against the Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) in the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2026 Eliminator in New Chandigarh, Jofra Archer’s roasting comment against the Punjab Kings (PBKS) went viral on social media platforms.        

The Royals, who won a vital league-stage game against the Mumbai Indians to eliminate the Punjab side, blew away Hyderabad to advance to the second qualifier of the event, where they would face the Gujarat Titans (GT) on May 29 at the Maharaja Yadavindra Singh International Stadium.

"Don't want to be Punjab Kings" — Jofra Archer's exact words after knocking PBKS out of IPL 2026

The Punjab franchise, under the leadership of Shreyas Iyer, won their first six game out of seven, including a washed-out result, before losing six successive games and being eliminated from the event. That was the danger of picking early and falling apart at the business end of the event, and Jofra Archer pointed it out in a mocking comment.

Watch Jofra Archer's viral comment here: 

“Every game at a time. I think we are at our peak, well, I don't want to say peaking, and we're going in the right direction at the right time. We don't want what happened to Kings XI [PBKS] to happen to us. So, I think we're on the right path. Everyone chipping in every game, and that's the important part.” The England pacer expressed in the post-match presentation.

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“Honestly, you've just got to hold your nerve. As you said, they're really damaging, so your good balls are going to go for boundaries, your bad balls are going to go for boundaries as well.” He added to his bowling plans.

Jofra Archer's Eliminator performance: The spell that sent Punjab Kings packing from IPL 2026

Archer played a key role in knocking out the PBKS side during their last league stage game at the Wankhede Stadium. With the bat, the right-handed batter smashed 32 runs off 15 balls with the help of three sixes and one boundary before ending with 3/17 in four overs.

He continued the same dominance with three vital wickets against Hyderabad. On his second ball, the Barbados-born sent back India's Abhishek Shamra before winning the mini-battle against Ishan Kishan. Travis Head was his third wicket of the evening.

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Archer is currently the third leading wicket-taker of the IPL 2026 with 24 wickets in 15 innings at an economy rate of just over nine.

PBKS fans furious or fine with it? Archer's viral comment has the Internet divided

As expected, the fan groups of different sides were divided on the viral comment of Archer from the IPL 2026 Eliminator victory against the Sunrisers Hyderabad-

Follow live score of SRH vs RR IPL 2026 Eliminator- 

RR- 243/8 (Vaibhav Sooryavanshi 97, Dhruv Jurel 50, Praful Hinge 3/54) beat SRH 196 (Nitsh Reddy 38, Jofra Archer 3/58) by 47 runs.