The match was played between Lucknow Super Giants and Chennai Super Kings in the Indian Premier League. Lucknow Super Giants team won this match with great ease. Lucknow won this match by 8 wickets. After losing two consecutive matches, Lucknow Super Giants team is back on the winning track. They have now won three of the four matches played on their home ground. With this win, Lucknow team has gone ahead of Chennai Super Kings in head to head. Both the teams have now played four matches against each other in IPL history. Where Lucknow has won two matches and Chennai has won one match. One match could not be played due to rain.
How was the match?
Apart from the bowlers, the opening batsmen also performed brilliantly for Lucknow in this match. KL Rahul and Quinton de Kock made a century partnership for the first wicket, due to which their team maintained pressure on Chennai from the very beginning and did not give them a chance to make a comeback in the match even once. Talking about Lucknow’s victory against Chennai, in this match Lucknow Super Giants KL Rahul won the toss and decided to bowl first. After this, Chennai Super Kings team came to bat first and scored 176 runs by losing 6 wickets in the stipulated 20 overs.
During this, Ravindra Jadeja scored the maximum 57 runs for Chennai, while MS Dhoni scored 28 runs in just 9 balls in the last few overs of the innings and finished the innings in a brilliant manner for the team. Apart from these two batsmen, Ajinkya Rahane scored 36 runs on 24 balls and Moeen Ali scored 30 runs on 20 balls. For Lucknow, Krunal Pandya took two wickets for 16 runs in 3 overs, while Mahsin Khan, Yash Thakur, Ravi Bishnoi and Marcus Stoinis got one wicket each.
Amazing work of openers in run chase
Chennai Super Kings gave Lucknow Super Giants a target of 177 runs to win this match. It was a respectable score, but Lucknow openers KL Rahul and Quinton de Kock got the team off to a great start. 134 runs were added for the first wicket between the two batsmen. The partnership of these two did almost all the work for the team. During this, KL Rahul scored 82 runs on 53 balls and Quinton de Kock scored 54 runs on 43 balls. In the end Nicholas Pooran and Marcus Stoinis finished the match. In this match, Lucknow scored 180 runs by losing 2 wickets in 19 overs and won the match by 8 wickets. In this match, Mustafizur Rahman and Mathisha Pathirana took one wicket each for Chennai. Chennai team still remains at third position in the points table. Whereas Lucknow team is at number 5.
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