Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) achieved their second successive win within the 2024 version of the IPL as they beat the Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) by 28 runs at M Chinnaswamy Stadium on Tuesday, April 2. Lucknow principally confirmed a manner to the opposite groups how to put a sizeable whole on two-paced surfaces of Bengaluru with a set batter batting until fifteenth over and a finisher giving the momentum on the demise earlier than the bowlers run riot within the center overs to full an all-round efficiency as RCB have now a number of questions to search solutions for within the remaining video games.
At the midway mark, contemplating how RCB pulled it again with the ball regardless of Nicholas Pooran hitting 5 sixes within the remaining two overs, 182 felt like a chasable whole, particularly with the way in which Faf du Plessis and Virat Kohli started. Lucknow Super Giants deployed their sluggish left-arm orthodox match-up with M Siddharth and Krunal Pandya opening the bowling. Both Kohli and du Plessis have been affected person sufficient earlier than getting these boundaries and going hell for leather-based towards Naveen ul Haq within the fourth over.
However, what adopted within the final two overs was a automotive crash of monumental proportions. Kohli bought a boundary towards Siddharth on the primary ball of his third over earlier than lofting it straight to the backward level fielder. In the very subsequent over, bowled by Mayank Yadav, Faf bought run out and Glenn Maxwell attempting to battle hearth with hearth mistimed straight to brief mid-off.
RCB have been instantly three down. If that wasn’t sufficient, Cameron Green was dismissed within the subsequent over too as Mayank was principally taking RCB for a experience, on which he took Punjab Kings a few nights in the past.
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