New Delhi. Due to the excellent bowling of their bowlers, Lucknow Super Giants registered a spectacular victory by defeating Gujarat Titans by 33 runs. This is Lucknow’s third win in 4 matches. Whereas this is Gujarat’s third defeat in 5 matches.
All-rounders Krunal Pandya and Yash Thakur bowled brilliantly for LSG, due to which the team was successful in defending the score of 163 runs. In this match played at Ekana Stadium in Lucknow, Marcus Stoinis scored the highest 58 runs for LSG. However, during this time LSG suffered a big blow when fast bowler Mayank Yadav had to leave the ground after bowling one over.
Mayank did not come to bowl again.Chasing the target of 164 runs, Gujarat Titans scored 130 runs in 18.5 overs. The opening pair of Shubman Gill and Sai Sudarshan gave a half-century start. Both of them made a partnership of 54 runs for the first wicket. Gill was out after scoring 19 runs in 21 balls while Sudarshan contributed 31 runs.
Kane Williamson went out after scoring 1 run while wicketkeeper Sharat BR contributed 2 runs. Darshan Nalkande was out after scoring 12 runs while Rashid Khan could not even open the account. Umesh Yadav was out after scoring 2 runs. Yash Thakur took 5 wickets for LSG.Earlier, Lucknow Super Giants scored 163 runs for 5 wickets with the help of Nicholas Pooran’s unbeaten 32-run innings after the half-century of Marcus Stoinis (58 runs).
After winning the toss and opting to bat, the LSG team won the match with the help of Stoinis’ (43 balls) first half-century of this IPL phase and a partnership of 73 runs in 62 balls for the third wicket with his captain KL Rahul (33 runs in 31 balls). Score was scored in which in the end Puran scored unbeaten 32 runs in 22 balls.
