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NEW DELHI: Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) survived a precocious fightback from Tim David (40 disconnected 17 balls) to bushed Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) by 9 runs successful their IPL 2026 lucifer astatine the Ekana Stadium successful Lucknow connected Thursday.
Prince Yadav picked up 3 wickets arsenic LSG defended their full successful a rain-hit 19-overs-a-side game.
RCB were chasing 213 nether the DLS method.RCB needed 20 runs successful the last over, but Digvesh Rathi gave distant lone 10 runs to seal the triumph for LSG.It was a much-needed triumph for LSG aft six consecutive losses this play and 8 consecutive defeats astatine home. Even aft the win, they remained astatine No. 10 successful the points table, but determination was immoderate alleviation successful the camp.RCB, meanwhile, missed the accidental to determination to the apical of the table.This was besides LSG’s archetypal triumph successful 5 matches successful Lucknow this play and their archetypal triumph against RCB astatine the Ekana Stadium successful 3 attempts.It was RCB’s archetypal decision portion chasing successful 5 matches this season, portion LSG registered their archetypal triumph portion defending a full successful 5 games.Earlier, Mitchell Marsh scored a period arsenic repeated rainfall interruptions affected LSG’s innings and they posted 209/3.
Three rainfall breaks delayed the crippled by adjacent to an hr earlier the lucifer was reduced to 19 overs per side.Marsh scored 111 disconnected 56 balls and added 95 runs for the opening wicket with Arshin Kulkarni (17). He past enactment connected different 70 runs with Nicholas Pooran (38). Captain Rishabh Pant aboriginal scored 32 not retired disconnected conscionable 10 balls.Marsh started attacking from the opening and deed boundaries and sixes each astir the ground. His innings included 9 fours and 9 sixes.With LSG needing a triumph severely to enactment live successful the playoff race, Marsh attacked the RCB bowlers from the commencement aft LSG were asked to bat first.Josh Hazlewood faced astir of the aboriginal onslaught arsenic Marsh deed 2 consecutive sixes implicit his caput earlier adding 3 boundaries successful the aforesaid spell.LSG reached 95/0 successful 9 overs earlier the archetypal rainfall interruption stopped play for astir 30 minutes. After the restart, Krunal Pandya dismissed Kulkarni.Nicholas Pooran past got going rapidly with 2 boundaries disconnected Rasikh, portion Marsh reached his period with consecutive fours earlier hitting different six implicit screen constituent conscionable earlier rainfall stopped play again.Marsh was dropped by Devdutt Padikkal connected 110 but could not marque the astir of it arsenic helium was aboriginal caught astatine heavy constituent disconnected Hazlewood.After Marsh’s dismissal, Pant took implicit and deed 4 fours and 2 sixes successful his speedy unbeaten knock.Chasing the total, RCB were constricted to 203 for six with Prince Yadav (3/33) and Shahbaz Ahmed (2/33) sharing wickets for LSG.Skipper Rajat Patidar was the highest scorer for RCB with a 31-ball 61.For RCB, Krunal Pandya (1/31) and Josh Hazlewood (1/49) claimed a wicket each.
