CSK vs LSG IPL 2023: In the 16th season of IPL, the team of Chennai Super Kings has opened its account of victory by defeating the team of Lucknow by 12 runs in its second match. Chasing the score of 218 runs in this match, the team of Lucknow Super Giants could only manage to reach the score of 205 runs at the loss of 7 wickets in 20 overs. Moin Ali took the maximum 4 wickets from Chennai Super Kings.
After the first play, Chennai had scored 217 runs for 7 wickets in 20 overs. In response to this, Lucknow, which scored 79 runs in 5 overs without any loss, was able to score only 205 runs in the stipulated overs. This is Chennai’s first win in this season.
Lucknow team’s innings faltered after a good start, batsmen trapped in Moin’s spin
Chasing a score of 218 runs, the pair of captain KL Rahul and Kyle Meyers, who started the innings for the team of Lucknow Super Giants, started the process of scoring runs from the very first over. Together, both made a partnership of 79 runs for the first wicket within 6 overs. After this, Moin Ali made Meyers his victim on a personal score of 53 and gave the first blow to the Lucknow team.
After this, the second blow to the Lucknow team was given by Mitchell Santner on the score of 82 in the form of Deepak Hooda. At the same time, Lucknow team captain KL Rahul also became the victim of Moin Ali on a personal score of 20. After a good start, suddenly there was pressure on the Lucknow team’s innings.
From here, a 23-run partnership was seen between Krunal Pandya and Marcus Stoinis for the fourth wicket, after which Pandya returned to the pavilion after scoring 9 while Stoinis scored 21 runs. Half of the Lucknow team had returned to the pavilion till the score of 130. Nicholas Pooran definitely tried to keep the team’s hope of victory alive but he also returned to the pavilion after scoring 32 runs in 18 balls.
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The team of Lucknow Super Giants could manage to score only 205 runs in this match after the end of 20 overs. In this match for Chennai, Moin Ali took 4 wickets giving just 26 runs in 4 overs, while Tushar Deshpande took 2 wickets while Mitchell Santner took 1 wicket in his name.
Gaikwad and Kanve showed in Chennai’s innings
Talking about the innings of the Chennai Super Kings team in this match, the opening pair of Riturat Gaikwad and Devon Conway gave a great start to the team and made a brilliant partnership of 110 runs for the first wicket. Rituraj’s bat also saw a brilliant half-century innings in this match, in which he scored a brilliant inning of 57 runs in 31 balls, apart from this, Kanve’s bat also saw an inning of 47 runs in 29 balls.
In the last over for Chennai, Ambati Rayudu played an important role in taking the team’s score beyond 200 with an unbeaten 27 off 14 balls. In the last over, Dhoni also hit 2 brilliant sixes, due to which the Chennai team managed to reach a score of 217 for the loss of 7 wickets in 20 overs. In bowling from Lucknow, Mark Wood and Ravi Bishnoi took 3-3 wickets.
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