Cricket Highlights, 1 April: IPL 2023 (Match 3) – Lucknow Super Giants vs Delhi Capitals 

Lucknow Super Giants vs Delhi Capitals (Match 3) – Highlights

At the Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Cricket Stadium, the host Lucknow Super Giants defeated the visiting Delhi Capitals by 50 runs on Saturday (April 1). Batting first, Lucknow relied on the batting of Kyle Meyers to get 193 runs despite losing 6 wickets in the allotted 20 overs. Then Mark Wood bowled out Delhi in reply, allowing them to score 143 runs while losing 9 wickets. Hence, Lucknow triumphed by 50 runs. Besides, Mark Wood’s outstanding bowling helped him win the man of the match award as well. 

Lokesh Rahul, the captain of Lucknow, was asked to bat by David Warner, the captain of Delhi, after winning the toss. Batting first, Rahul, the captain, was dismissed early in the innings. In 12 balls, he only managed to score 8 runs.

Rahul was dismissed after the team scored 19 runs, but on the other side, Jamaican Kyle Myers unleashed a cyclone on the Delhi bowlers. Deepak Hooda was acting as a spectator on one side of the action. Hooda, however, was stopped after the squad scored 98 runs with his 17 runs off 18 balls.

Then Kyle Myers went out after playing storming innings of 73 runs from 38 balls at the team’s 100 runs. With two boundaries, he hit seven sixes. When Myers was dismissed with a flurry of batting, Delhi picked up wickets at regular intervals but was unable to slow Lucknow’s run rate.

For Lucknow, Nicholas Pooran scored 36 runs off 21 balls, Marcus Stoinis scored 12 runs off 10 balls, Ayush Badoni scored 18 runs off 7 balls, and Krishnappa Gowtham hit a six off one ball. Krunal Pandya has 15 runs from 13 balls and was still undefeated.

On the other hand, despite being thoroughly defeated in the first game, Delhi Capitals kept Mustafizur Rahman. In the opening game, the visiting club did not keep Mustafiz in the starting lineup. He is not even included among the other players on the bench. Nonetheless, Delhi noticed a cutter master shortage during the game. The ball misfired for Chetan Sakaria. In 4 overs, he conceded 53 runs while taking 2 wickets. Khaleel Ahmed, a left-handed bowler, finished with 2 wickets and 30 runs in 4 overs. In addition, Kuldeep Yadav and Axar Patel both claimed one wicket.

In T20, taking the field after winning the toss will turn out to be a mistake! Fielding after winning the toss has become a self-evident rule in T20 cricket. On the second day of the IPL, both teams, however, won the toss but lost the match after choosing to ball first.

Came down to bat for a target of 194 runs the Lucknow pacers attacked the Delhi batsmen from the very beginning. Where Wood and Avesh Khan started their astonishing bowling and at the team’s 48 runs, Prithvi Shaw (12), Mitchell Marsh, and Sarfraz Khan (4) exited the field. Among them, Marsh was unable to even access the account of runs.

After a disastrous start, Rilee Rossouw and Delhi’s captain David Warner both managed to score a couple of runs. Warner, however, used 48 balls in order to score 56 runs. The seven four innings did nothing except narrow Delhi’s loss margin. With 20 balls, Rossouw scored 30 runs. Among the remaining batters, Axar Patel outperformed the others by scoring double-digit runs. In 11 balls, he scored 16 runs. Delhi ultimately totaled 143 runs in the allowed 20 overs. They suffered a defeat as a result and exited the field.

Mark Wood, an English spinner from Lucknow, claimed 5 wickets for just 14 runs in 4 overs. Both Avesh Khan and Ravi Bishnoi claimed two wickets.

Lucknow Super Giants vs Delhi Capitals Scoreboard

Lucknow Super Giants – 193/6 (20.0)

Delhi Capitals – 143/9 (20.0) 

Result – Lucknow Super Giants won by 50 runs 

Player of the match – Mark Wood 

Mark Wood

Lucknow Super Giants vs Delhi Capitals Playing XIs