LSG vs DC IPL 2022: Lucknow Super Giants scored a hat-trick of victory by defeating Delhi Capitals in the 15th match of IPL 2022. Batting first, Delhi Capitals had set a target of 150 runs in front of Lucknow due to the stormy innings of 61 runs by Prithvi Shaw. Lucknow achieved this score with two balls to spare. Quinton de Kock played a brilliant innings of 80 runs for Lucknow. At the same time, young talent Ayush Badoni played an important innings of 10 runs in 3 balls. Badoni made the team win the match by hitting a six off Shardul Thakur. With this win, Lucknow Super Giants have moved up to the second position in the points table.
KL Rahul won the toss and decided to bowl first in this match. Giving a stormy start to Delhi, Prithvi Shaw played a stormy innings of 61 runs in 34 balls with the help of 9 fours and 2 sixes. Delhi got the first blow in the form of Shaw on a personal score of 61. After this, Warner got out after scoring 4 and Powell 3 runs. The faltering Delhi was handled by captain Rishabh Pant and Sarfaraz and played an innings of 39 and 36 runs respectively to take Delhi’s score to 149.
Chasing this target, Lucknow Super Giants also got a good start. Quinton de Kock and KL Rahul (24) added 73 runs for the first wicket. After this, Lewis, who came to bat, got out after scoring 5 runs in 13 balls. Kuldeep Yadav gave the third blow to Lucknow and here the match appeared to be stuck. But in the end, Krunal Pandya scored 19 runs in 14 balls and brought the team close to the score and the remaining work was done by Ayush Badoni. Earlier Deepak Hooda had scored 11 runs.