New Delhi. Even though not a single player from the Lucknow Supergiants was selected in the Indian squad for the T20 World Cup, it did not affect their performance in the IPL 2024. Lucknow Super Giants put up a strong performance on Tuesday and defeated Mumbai Indians by 6 wickets. In this match, the Mumbai Indians team was under pressure from the beginning. She lost 4 wickets for just 27 runs and could not get out of the pressure till the end of the match. With this, Mumbai Indians have equaled Royal Challengers Bangalore’s record of losing the most matches in IPL 2024.
With this win, Lucknow Supergiants (LSG) team has completely changed the equation of IPL Playoffs (IPL 2024 Playoffs Scenario). With this win, KL Rahul’s team LSG has secured the third position in the points table. They left Chennai Super Kings and Sunrisers Hyderabad with one win each. Mumbai Indians team is ninth in the points table after losing 7 matches in the tournament. She is almost out of the playoff race. Now only a miracle can take Mumbai Indians to the top-4.
In the match played at Ekana Stadium in Lucknow, LSG captain KL Rahul won the toss and decided to bowl first. LSG (Lucknow Super Giants) bowlers vindicated their captain’s decision and took 4 wickets of Mumbai Indians within 27 runs. Captain Hardik Pandya could not even open the account. Rohit Sharma scored 4 runs, Tilak Verma scored 7 runs and Suryakumar Yadav scored 10 runs.
Tim David-Vadhera gave a respectable score
Mumbai Indians completed their 50 runs in the 10th over. At that time it looked difficult for Mumbai to reach 100 runs. But Nehal Vadhera (46 runs, 41 balls) and Tim David (35 runs, 18 balls) batted quickly in the last overs and took their team to 144 runs for 7 wickets. Before this, Ishan Kishan scored 32 runs in 36 balls. Mohsin took two wickets from Lucknow. Marcus Stoinis, Naveen Ul Haq, Mayank Yadav and Ravi Bishnoi got one wicket each.
Opener Arshin could not even open the account
Chasing the target, Lucknow Supergiants suffered a major setback early on when their young opener Arshin Kulkarni was dismissed without opening the account. But after this Mumbai Indians had to wait for a long time for another wicket. Captain KL Rahul (28) and Marcus Stoinis (62) combined to take Lucknow to 59 runs. On this score, KL Rahul was caught out by Nabi by Hardik Pandya.
The result came in the last over
After the dismissal of KL Rahul, Marcus Stoinis and Deepak Hooda (18) took their team to a score of 99. Nixal Puran came to the crease after Deepak was dismissed on this score. He formed a small partnership with Stoinis, Aston Turner (5) and Ayush Badoni (6) in the last overs to ensure victory for Lucknow Supergiants. The only saving grace for Mumbai Indians in this match was that their captain Hardik Pandya bowled well and took 2 wickets. Hardik bowling a complete spell of 4 overs is good news for the Indian team.
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Tags: IPL 2024, Lucknow Super Giants, Marcus Stoinis, Mumbai Indians
First published: April 30, 2024, 23:24 IST