Sports Top 10: Lucknow Super Giants played their 7th match in this season of IPL against Chennai Super Kings at their home ground Ekana Cricket Stadium. In this match, CSK team got a chance to bat first, after which they scored 176 runs at the loss of 6 wickets in 20 overs. Lucknow team achieved this target at the loss of 2 wickets in 19 overs on the basis of half-century innings of captain KL Rahul and Quinton de Kock. After this match, the captains of both the teams had to face fine from BCCI due to slow over rate.
Lucknow recorded its fourth win this season
Lucknow Super Giants registered a big win by 8 wickets in the match against Chennai Super Kings, breaking their last two consecutive defeats in this season of IPL. In this match, Chennai Super Kings, who came to bat first after losing the toss, at one time lost half of their team till the score was 90. From here, Ravindra Jadeja, handling the innings from one end, played an important role in taking the team’s score to 176 in 20 overs by playing an unbeaten inning of 57 runs. Lucknow team achieved this target in 19 overs in which captain KL Rahul played an important role in winning by playing an inning of 82 runs while Quinton de Kock played an inning of 54 runs.
Fine imposed on KL Rahul and Ruturaj Gaikwad
BCCI has fined KL Rahul and Ruturaj Gaikwad after the match for slow over rate. Lucknow Super Giants team was one over behind the scheduled time in the match against Chennai Super Kings. Since this was the first mistake of Rahul and Gaikwad this season, a fine of Rs 12 lakh each has been imposed on them. So far in this season of IPL, 7 captains have faced this fine, all of whom are Indians.
Ruturaj Gaikwad said 10 to 15 runs less was the reason for the defeat.
After the defeat in the match against Lucknow Super Giants, Chennai Super Kings captain Ruturaj Gaikwad termed being 10 to 15 runs short as a big defeat. Gaikwad said that we ended our innings very brilliantly and nothing more can be expected from it. After the powerplay, we could not take our start well and due to continuous loss of wickets, we scored 10 to 15 runs less.
Dhoni hit a six of 101 meters in the match against Lucknow
While batting in the match against Lucknow Super Giants, MS Dhoni played an unbeaten inning of 28 runs in just 9 balls. Dhoni is batting very well this season. In this match, MS Dhoni hit two long sixes and also hit three fours. One of Dhoni’s sixes was so long that looking at it no one could say that he was 42 years old. He hit a 101 meter long six in the last over of Yash Thakur.
Matt Henry returns to compete in IPL after 7 years
In the match against Chennai Super Kings, Lucknow Super Giants included Matt Henry in place of Shamar Joseph in their playing 11, who got a chance to play a match in the IPL after 7 years. Henry had earlier played for Punjab Kings team in the 2017 IPL season. In this match against CSK, Henry bowled 3 overs in which he gave 26 runs.
KL Rahul told why MS Dhoni is so special for everyone
KL Rahul recalled some special moments he spent with former Indian captain MS Dhoni ahead of the clash with five-time champion team Chennai Super Kings in Lucknow on Friday. Speaking on a Star Sports video, Rahul admitted that Dhoni holds a special place in his and the entire nation’s heart, and his fondest memory is that he got India caps from Dhoni in all three formats.
Deepak Punia and Sujit Kalkal’s hopes of participating in the Olympics suffered a setback
The Olympic Games will be organized in Paris from July 26 this year. In this series, wrestling matches in the Asia Olympic Qualifier started from April 19 to achieve the quota in the Paris Olympics. Before this event, two Indian wrestlers have suffered a major setback, one name is Deepak Punia, who narrowly missed winning a medal in the Tokyo Olympics, and the other name is Sujit Kalkal. Both these players could not reach Dubai on time due to delay in the flight due to heavy rains in Dubai, due to which the organizers did not allow them to participate.
KL Rahul became the player to play most fifty plus innings as a wicketkeeper in IPL.
KA Rahul has now become the player to play the most fifty plus innings as a wicketkeeper in IPL. Rahul achieved the first position by playing an innings of 82 runs in the match against CSK, leaving Dhoni behind in this record. Rahul now holds the record of playing 25 fifty plus innings as a wicketkeeper in IPL.
Lucknow team is currently at fifth position in the points table.
After the match against Chennai Super Kings, there was no major difference in the points table of IPL 2024. While CSK is still at the third position in the points table with 8 points after 4 wins and 3 losses in 7 matches, Lucknow Super Giants is also at the fifth position with the same number of points. While CSK’s net run rate is 0.529, Lucknow’s is 0.123.
The match between Delhi Capitals and Sunrisers Hyderabad will be played in Delhi today.
The 35th match of IPL 2024 will be played between Delhi Capitals and Sunrisers Hyderabad at the Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi. This will be the first match of this season in this stadium. Delhi team has played 7 matches so far in the 17th season of IPL, in which they have won three matches, while Sunrisers Hyderabad have won 4 after playing 6 matches.
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