RR vs CSK IPL 2023 Match 38: In the 38th league match of the 16th season of IPL, Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) registered a huge 56-run win against Punjab Kings (PBKS), avenging their defeat this season. Batting first against Punjab, Lucknow scored 257 runs at the loss of 5 wickets in 20 overs. After this, chasing this target, the Punjab team was reduced to scoring 201 runs in 19.5 overs. Yash Thakur took 4 wickets in bowling from Lucknow.
Captain Dhawan disappointed, Punjab managed to reach the score of 55 in first 6 overs
The Punjab team expected an explosive start from their opening batsmen to chase down a huge score of 258 runs, but in this case they were disappointed. The Punjab team got the first blow on the score of 3 in the form of captain Shikhar Dhawan who returned to the pavilion after scoring only 1 run.
After this, there was a partnership of 28 runs in 17 balls for the second wicket between Atharva Tayde and Prabhsimran Singh. Punjab got the second blow on the score of 31 in the form of Prabhasimran, who returned to the pavilion after playing an innings of 9 runs in 13 balls. After this, the team could only manage to reach a score of 55 for the loss of 2 wickets in the first 6 overs.
Atharva Tayde and Sikandar Raza tried to bring Punjab back into the match
After the end of the initial 6 overs, the pair of Atharva Tayde and Sikandar Raza tried to bring Punjab Kings back in this match. Both started the process of scoring runs with speed and took the score to 93 runs in 10 overs. From here everyone expected that both these players would definitely make the match exciting, but at the crucial time, Yash Thakur made Sikandar Raza his victim on a personal score of 36 and gave the third blow to the Punjab team. A partnership of 78 runs in 47 balls was seen for the third wicket between Atharva and Sikandar.
Punjab lost quick wickets in the process of scoring fast
On the score of 109, the Punjab Kings team got the third blow in this match in the form of Sikandar Raza. After this, the team started losing wickets quickly in order to score fast runs. At the score of 127, the team got the fourth blow in the form of Atharva Tayde, who returned to the pavilion after playing an excellent inning of 66 runs in 36 balls. On the score of 152, Punjab got the fifth blow in the form of Liam Livingston, while the sixth blow on the score of 178 came in the form of Sam Karan.
Jitesh Sharma definitely played a quick inning of 24 runs in 10 balls but he could not succeed in winning the team. The Punjab team was reduced to scoring 201 runs in 19.5 overs in this match. From Lucknow, Yash Thakur got 4 wickets, Naveen-ul-Haq got 3 and Ravi Bishnoi got 2 wickets. At the same time, Marcus Stoinis also took 1 wicket.
The power of the bat of Meyers, Stoinis and Puran was shown in Lucknow’s innings.
In this match, if we talk about the innings of Lucknow Super Giants, then there were excellent innings from the bats of Kyle Meyers, Marcus Stoinis and Nicholas Pooran. Where Kyle Meyers worked to give an explosive start to the Lucknow team in this match, in which his bat saw an innings of 54 runs in 24 balls. At the same time, Marcus Stoinis played an excellent inning of 72 runs in 40 balls.
Apart from this, Ayush Badoni scored 43 runs in 24 balls while Nicholas Pooran also played an excellent inning of 45 runs in just 19 balls, due to which the Lucknow team managed to reach a score of 257 for the loss of 5 wickets in 20 overs.
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