Chennai Superkings vs Lucknow Super Giants Marcus Stoinis: There was amazing excitement in the IPL match played between Chennai Super Kings and Lucknow Super Giants on Tuesday. When CSK had scored 210 runs, no one would have thought that LSG team would achieve this target. But it was Marcus Stoinis who made the impossible possible. Along with this, Marcus Stynis has also broken a 13 years old record in IPL. Also, for the first time a batsman has made such a big score in the IPL run chase.
Marcus Stoinis played an unbeaten inning of 124 runs.
Actually, Marcus Stoinis played an unbeaten inning of 124 runs against CSK. He came to bat at number three, when Quinton de Kock had already returned to the pavilion after getting out in the first over. Stoinis played such a big innings on 63 balls. Before this, such a big innings had never been played in the run chase of IPL. In the 2011 IPL, Punjab batsman Paul Valthaty had scored an unbeaten 120 against CSK in Mohali. From then till now this record was unbreakable, but now Marcus has done the work of demolishing it. However, if we talk about Indian batsman, Paul Valthaty is at number one.
Virender Sehwag’s number after Stoinis and Valthati
If we talk about the third batsman after Marcus Stoinis and Paul Valthaty, then he is Virender Sehwag, who scored 119 runs against Deccan Chargers while playing for Delhi Capitals in the 2011 IPL. Sanju Samson, while playing for Rajasthan Royals in the 2021 IPL, played an important inning of 119 runs against Punjab Kings.
Came to bat in the first over and remained unbeaten till the last over.
Marcus Stoinis first got the support of captain KL Rahul for some time in batting and after that he also had a partnership with Devdutt Padikkal. But after LSG lost 3 important wickets for 88 runs, this target started looking difficult. But Nicholas Puran supported him for some time. Puran played a brilliant inning of 34 runs in 15 balls. In the end, Deepak Hooda scored 17 runs on 6 balls and along with Marcus Stoinis took his team to the door of victory.
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