In the 26th match of IPL 2023, Lucknow Super Giants defeated Rajasthan Royals by 10 runs despite a low score. Batting first after losing the toss, Lucknow scored 154 runs losing seven wickets in 20 overs. Kyle Meyers played an inning of 51 runs in 42 balls. Apart from this, captain KL Rahul scored 39 runs.
In response, at one time Rajasthan's team had scored 87 runs after losing one wicket. However, after this wickets kept falling at regular intervals and the team could manage only 144 runs in 20 overs losing six wickets. Yashasvi Jaiswal scored the highest 44 runs. At the same time, Jose Butler played an inning of 40 runs. Lucknow has come out to defend a total of 11 times in IPL so far. The team has won nine times, while the team has lost only two matches. In the last seven matches in Jaipur, the team batting later has won six matches. Lucknow won the match batting first for the first time.
Avesh Khan took two wickets in the last over. He took the wicket of Devdutt Padikkal on the third ball of the over and Dhruv Jurel on the fourth ball. Earlier, he also took the wicket of Shimron Hetmyer. Avesh took three wickets in total. However, the Player of the Match award was given to Marcus Stoinis. He took two wickets and scored 21 runs.
Innings of Lucknow
Batting first after losing the toss, KL Rahul and Kyle Meyers got Lucknow off to a slow start. Both had added 43 runs in seven overs. After this, both changed gears and scored 31 runs in the next two overs. However, to increase this run rate, captain Rahul was caught by Jason Holder in the 11th over to Jos Buttler. Rahul played an inning of 39 runs in 32 balls with the help of four fours and a six. At the same time, Ayush Badoni was dismissed by scoring one run and birthday boy Deepak Hooda by two runs.
Kyle Mayers hit his third fifty in IPL 2023. However, he was dismissed soon after scoring his half-century. Ashwin dismissed both Deepak Hooda and Meyers in the 14th over. Ashwin clean bowls Meyers. He got out after scoring 51 runs in 42 balls with the help of four fours and three sixes. Marcus Stoinis was dismissed after scoring 21 runs in 16 balls.
At the same time, Nicholas Pooran and Yudhvir Singh Charak were run out in the last over. Puran scored 28 runs in 20 balls and Yudhveer was dismissed after scoring one run. Krunal Pandya remained unbeaten after scoring four runs. Ashwin took the maximum two wickets from Rajasthan. At the same time, Trent Boult, Sandeep Sharma, and Jason Holder got one wicket each.
Rajasthan innings
Chasing the target of 155, Rajasthan got off to a great start. Yashasvi Jaiswal and Jos Buttler shared an 87-run partnership for the first wicket. However, both of them played 69 balls for this. Rajasthan got the first blow in the form of Yashasvi. He got out after scoring 44 runs in 35 balls with the help of four fours and two sixes.
