Cricket Highlights, 12th April: IPL 2024 (Match 26) – Lucknow Super Giants vs Delhi Capitals

Lucknow Super Giants vs Delhi Capitals (Match 26) – Highlights

In this article, we will discuss the Cricket Highlights of IPL 2024 on 12th April of Match 26. Lucknow Super Giants vs Delhi Capitals. After losing the first two matches, Delhi got its first win in the third match. Then they lost two more matches. After that, Delhi Capitals got their second win in the 6th match. Rishabh Pant’s team defeated Lucknow Super Giants in this match.

The Delhi team defeated the hosts Lucknow Super Giant by 6 wickets at the Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Cricket Stadium on Friday night. Young cricketer Jack Fraser-McGurk contributed to their victory. Pant himself gave a worthy accompaniment. Besides, Lucknow’s Ayush Badoni’s fight went in vain. Lucknow lost this first match at home.

Batting first, Lucknow Super Giants collected 167 runs after losing 7 wickets. In reply, Delhi reached the target losing 4 wickets in 18.1 overs (with 11 balls in hand).

Prithvi Shaw started well for the visitors. He kept playing well. But David Warner on the opposite side was out, unfortunately. Yash Thakur’s ball hits his pads and falls down the stumps. Warner looked disappointed. Fraser, who was down for three, hit Thakur for a six off the second ball. He Paired with Prithvi and started scoring runs quickly.

Prithvi Shaw returned with the team’s 63 runs. He scored 32 runs off 22 balls. After the fall of the second wicket, Delhi could not be stopped. In the 13th over, Fraser struck Krunal Pandya for three straight sixes. 21 runs from that over. Besides, 15 runs came from Krunal’s previous over.

Fraser completed his fifty in the 14th over. He got out in the next over. Naveen Ul Haq’s ball was caught by Arshad Khan. Pant was playing well. In the 16th over, he came forward to hit Ravi Bishnoi and Lokesh Rahul stumped. Pant scored 41 off 24 balls with the help of 4 fours and 2 sixes. But that did not stop Delhi’s victory.

Batting first, Lucknow started well. Quinton de Kock was playing exactly the way he needed to start in the power play. But in the third over he was lbw by Khalil Ahmed. After that Lucknow wicket fell, the batters came and went one by one.

In this game, Devdutt Padikkal (3) was again unable to regain his previous level of play. Marcus Stoinis (8), Nicholas Pooran (0), Deepak Hooda (10), and Krunal Pandya (3) also failed. It was not easy to score runs on the pitch played on Friday. Lokesh Rahul fought. Scored 39 off 22 balls with the help of 5 fours and 1 six. 

However, no one could have thought that Badoni would bat like this at the end. At the time he came to bat, Lucknow was reeling with the loss of 6 wickets. They lost seven wickets when Krunal returned after a while. From there he fought alone with Arshad Khan. In the end, Badoni remained unbeaten for half a century. Which of course did not work.

Lucknow Super Giants vs Delhi Capitals Scoreboard

Lucknow Super Giants – 167/7 (20.0)

Delhi Capitals – 170/4 (18.1)

Result – Delhi Capitals won by 6 wickets

Player of the match – Kuldeep Yadav

Kuldeep Yadav

Lucknow Super Giants vs Delhi Capitals Playing XIs

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