This article will discuss Cricket Highlights of IPL 2024 on March 31 Match 11– Lucknow Super Giants vs Punjab Kings. LSG started their campaign for this season of IPL. Lucknow Super Giant (LSG) started their campaign for this season of IPL with a defeat. However, Nicholas Pooran’s team turned around the things in the second match at home. LSG achieved a great win against the Punjab Kings (PBKS). PBKS went down to bat with a target of 200 runs and scored 100 runs without losing any in 10 overs.
Lucknow Super Giants beat Punjab Kings by 21 runs at the Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Cricket Stadium on Saturday (March 30).
After winning the toss and batting first, Quinton de Kock’s half-century, and Pooran and Krunal Pandya’s stormy 40-run innings helped LSG to collect 199 runs after losing 8 wickets in the scheduled 20 overs. In reply, Shikhar Dhawan scored a half-century, but PBKS collected 178 runs after losing 5 wickets in the allotted 20 overs.
Super Giants got off to a stormy start at home. They collected 54 runs losing 2 wickets in 6 overs of power play. However, they lost wickets at regular intervals. KL Rahul scored 15 off 9 balls, Devdutt Padikkal scored 9 off 6 balls and Marcus Stoinis made 19 off 12 balls.
But De Kock at the other end had just picked up his half-century. This Protea scored 54 runs in 38 balls, with 5 fours and 2 sixes. He departed as the team’s fourth wicket on the first ball of the 14th over. By that time, 125 runs had accumulated on LSG’s scorecard.
Captain Pooran also raised a storm. He scored 42 runs off 21 balls with an equal number of 3 fours and sixes. Ayush Badoni departed with 8 runs off 10 balls but Krunal Pandya started to play aggressively. In the end, no one could support Pandya, but he remained unbeaten by scoring 43 runs off 22 balls smashing 4 fours and 2 sixes.
For PBKS, Sam Curran took the maximum number of 3 wickets with 28 runs in 4 overs. Arshdeep Singh got 2 wickets with 30 runs in 3 overs. Besides, Kagiso Rabada and Rahul Chahar took 1 wicket each.
PBKS got off to a solid start in response. They were on their way to an easy victory by completing 100 runs in just 10.2 overs without losing wickets. But after the departure of Jonny Bairstow after scoring 42 runs off 29 balls, the rhythm fell for PBKS. The English star scored 3 fours and 3 sixes.
One down, Prabhsimran Singh started the storm but could not stay on the wicket. He departed after scoring 19 runs off 7 balls. Mayank Yadav returned him and Jitesh Sharma (6) in his spell in two consecutive overs.
Even after scoring a half-century, Shikhar Dhawan could not score runs at the required speed. He became a victim of Mohsin Khan after scoring 70 runs in 50 balls with 7 fours and 3 sixes. Sam Curran also departed on the first ball he faced.
Liam Livingstone hit Naveen-ul-Haq for 2 sixes and 1 four in the last over. For LSG, Mayank Yadav took the highest number of 3 wickets conceding 27 runs in 4 overs. Mohsin Khan picked up 2 wickets with 34 runs in 4 overs.
Lucknow Super Giants – 199/8 (20.0)
Punjab Kings – 178/5 (20.0)
Result – Lucknow Super Giants won by 21 runs
Player of the match – Mayank Yadav
Mayank Yadav
Lucknow Super Giants | Nicholas Pooran (c), Quinton de Kock (wk), KL Rahul, Ayush Badoni, Marcus Stoinis, Devdutt Padikkal, Krunal Pandya, Mohsin Khan, Ravi Bishnoi, Mayank Yadav, and Manimaran Siddharth. |
Punjab Kings | Shikhar Dhawan (c), Jitesh Sharma (wk), Jonny Bairstow, Sam Curran, Shashank Singh, Liam Livingstone, Harpreet Brar, Kagiso Rabada, Harshal Patel, Rahul Chahar, and Arshdeep Singh. |
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