Nicholas Pooran: The 15th match of the 16th season of IPL was played between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Lucknow Supergiants. This match was played at RCB’s home ground Chinnaswamy Stadium. In this very exciting match, Lucknow defeated Bangalore by just 1 wicket on the last ball of the 20th over. There were a lot of ups and downs in this match. In this match, Niklas Puran of Lucknow scored the fastest half-century of IPL 2023. He scored 50 runs in 15 balls and put them in Lucknow’s bag in the lost match. Nicholas Pooran, who scored an inning of 62 runs in 19 balls, was adjudged the player of the match.
Lucknow captain KL Rahul won the toss and decided to bowl first but RCB scored 212 runs under the leadership of their captain Faf. Batting first, RCB scored 212 runs at the loss of 2 wickets in 20 overs. Captain Faf du Plessis scored the most runs in this match. He scored an inning of 79 runs in 46 balls at a strike rate of 171.74. Apart from him, Glenn Maxwell also played an inning of 59 runs in 29 balls at a strike rate of 203.45. This innings included 3 fours and 6 sixes. Before these two, Virat Kohli also became the victim of Amit Mishra by giving a fast start to his team in this match. Virat had scored an inning of 61 runs in 44 balls, in which he had hit 4 fours and 4 sixes.
After this, RCB made a great start in bowling as well and dropped the first three wickets of Lucknow very quickly. After that Marcus Stonis hit some good shots, but then he also went back to the pavilion. Niklas Puran of batting came after Stoinis, who brought Lucknow back into the match by scoring runs at a strike rate above 300. Kyle Myers and Krunal Pandya got out on 0 from Lucknow. KL Rahul scored 18 runs in 20 balls, Marcus Stonis played a brilliant inning of 65 runs in 30 balls. After that Nikenas Pooran came to bat and overturned the entire match in just 19 balls. He played a brilliant inning of 62 runs in 19 balls, which included 4 fours and 7 sixes. In this match, Impact player Ayush Badoni also supported Nickson Puran well, but while hitting the last six, his bat hit the wicket and he got out hit wicket.
The real thrill started in the last over
After that Lucknow needed 5 runs to win in the last over and they had 3 wickets left. Harshal Patel did the last over for RCB and after that the final thrill of the match started. Jaydev Unadkat took 1 run on the first ball of Harshal Patel and Mark Wood came on strike. Mark Wood was bowled on Harshal’s second and best ball. After that Ravi Bishnoi came on the field to bat, who cleverly touched the third ball with his bat and ran away to take two runs. Even on the fourth ball, Ravi equalized the score by taking 1 run. Now Lucknow needed 1 run from 2 balls to win and Jaydev Unadkat was on strike.
Harshal bowled the fifth ball and Jaydev shot a shot towards mid-on, which was caught by captain Faf du Plessis. The excitement was back once again in this match. Now Lucknow needed one run on one ball to win and they had only one wicket left.
Harshal tried to dismiss Bishnoi in the manner of Mankading on the last ball, but the umpire said that he had gone too far to bowl, so the runout was not valid. Harshal once again bowled the sixth ball and that ball went to wicketkeeper Dinesh Karthik without hitting the bat, but he could not collect that last ball properly. By the time Dinesh Karthik caught the ball and threw it, Avesh Khan and Bishnoi ran and took one run in the bye and made the match in the name of Lucknow.