Lucknow Super Giants beat Chennai Super Kings by 6 wickets, Marcus Stoinis hits century, Ruturaj Gaikwad, IPL 2024 CSK vs LSG

CSK vs LSG: Lucknow Super Giants have defeated Chennai Super Kings by 6 wickets. Playing first, CSK had scored 210 runs in the stipulated 20 overs. Captain Ruturaj Gaikwad played an inning of 108 runs in 60 balls and took the team to a big score. On the other hand, LSG had a very poor start while chasing the target. Quinton de Kock returned to the pavilion after scoring zero and captain KL Rahul scored 16 runs. The maximum runs for Lucknow were scored by Marcus Stoinis, who completed his century in 56 balls and scored 124 runs in his 63-ball innings. In this innings, Stoinis also hit 13 fours and 6 sixes. In the last overs, Deepak Hooda also made an important contribution to Lucknow's victory by playing a stormy innings of 17 runs in 6 balls.

By the completion of 11 overs, Lucknow Super Giants had lost 3 wickets at the score of 88 runs. The team still needed 123 runs to win in 9 overs. In such a situation, the 70-run partnership between Marcus Stoinis and Nicholas Pooran started increasing the heartbeats of CSK fans. But in the 17th over, Mathisha Pathirana dismissed Puran. Nicholas Puran scored 34 runs in 15 balls. The situation was that LSG needed 47 runs to win in the last 3 overs. The match got stuck there when Mustafizur Rahman gave away 15 runs in the 18th over. Now LSG needed 32 runs to win in 12 balls. Even in the 19th over, 15 runs came. It was entirely possible to score 17 runs to win in the last 6 balls. 15 runs were scored in the first two balls of the last over, which included one no-ball. Stoinis ensured LSG's victory by 6 wickets by hitting a four on the third ball of the over.

CSK bowling

Especially Moeen Ali and Tushar Deshpande proved to be very expensive for Chennai Super Kings. Mathisha Pathirana took 2 wickets for CSK. Apart from him, Deepak Chahar and Mustafizur Rahman also took 1 wicket each. Shardul Thakur could not show anything special, giving away 42 runs in just 3 overs. Chennai bowlers were beaten so badly that they gave away 76 runs in the last 27 balls.

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