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IPL 2024, LSG vs MI: Lucknow Super Giants’ Marcus Stoinis (BCCI)
Marcus Stoinis smashed a 45-ball 62 after taking a crucial wicket to help Lucknow Super Giants beat Mumbai Indians by 4 wickets.
Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) defeated Mumbai Indians (MI) by 4 wickets in their 2024 Indian Premier League (IPL) clash at the Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Cricket Stadium in Lucknow on Tuesday.
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Debutant Arshin Kulkarni was bowled by Nuwan Thushara on the fourth ball of the innings as KL Rahul and Marcus Stoins stitched a 58-run partnership.
The LSG skipper was removed by his opposite number as Mohammad Nabi took a good catch in the deep off Hardik Pandya to send back KL for 22-ball 28.
Deepak Hooda was the next to go as he hit Hardik straight to Jasprit Bumrah at mid-off for a run-a-ball 18.
Nabi got Stoinis out with Tilak Varma taking the catch at deep mid-wicket but star Aussie all-rounder made 62 off 45 deliveries with seven fours and two sixes.
Gerald Coetzee turned up to send back Ashton Turner for a 9-ball five as LSG looked in trouble in their meagre chase. But, Nicholas Pooran and Ayush Badoni stayed till the end to see their teams through.
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Earlier, Nehal Wadhera’s 46 and Tim David’s late fire of 35 propelled MI to 144/7. LSG came with a different bowling plan in the Powerplay overs against Mumbai, and it paid off well as Marcus Stoinis in his second over of the spell got rid of dangerous Suryakumar Yadav on the score of 10. Mohsin Khan had dismissed skipper Rohit Sharma for four runs in the second over of the innings.
Tilak Varma got run out in the chaos of an lbw appeal by Ravi Bishnoi guiding the backward point, as he forgot about where the ball was. Then walked skipper Hardik Pandya in the crease. He got out for a first-ball duck. Mumbai were in serious trouble with 28 for 4 on the scoreboard in the powerplay.
Mayank Yadav, on return from injury bowled the seventh over of the innings and was a fairly long first over and got smoked for eight runs in the over. And once the field spread and LSG went to their spinners, it became harder to score boundaries for MI.
Five boundaries in eight overs and Kishan trying to go for more was out caught for 32 off 36. Ravi Bishnoi, nominally a leg spinner, took out another left-hander with his googly. Nehal Wadhera and Ishan Kishan added run-up ball 53 for the fifth wicket.
In the midst of a difficult time for Mumbai, Nehal Wadhera was leading Mumbai forward. He finished on 46 off 41. It was the kind of innings no batter wanted to play in T20s. Much of his acceleration was the result of him taking on Mayank. Their head-to-head was 21 off 12 with two fours and two sixes.
Mayank left the field due to injury with the figure of 1 for 31 in 3.1 overs. However, the nature of injury is still unknown.
Mumbai lost more wickets (4) than boundaries (3) in the powerplay. Four of those six overs went for a run a ball or less. Their top-scorer had to play an innings where he had to be 9 off 15, then 13 off 20 and finally 46 off 41. But they went to put 144 for 7 in 20 overs on the board as Tim David charged late and scored 35 in 18 deliveries including three boundaries and two sixes.
(With inputs from Agencies)
