Lucknow Super Giants defeated defending champions Chennai Super Kings to win their first match in the Indian Premier League at the Brabourne Stadium in Mumbai on Thursday. Evin Lewis highlights LSG win with half-century in 23 balls, fastest of IPL 2022.
Quinton de Kock scored 61 while captain KL Rahul made 40 and Ayush Badoni made his half-century with a brilliant cameo against Gujarat Titans as LSG scored 211 to condemn CSK to their second consecutive defeat in this year’s Indian Premier League. Of.
CSK lost the first match of the season to Kolkata Knight Riders after a horror batting show. On Thursday, they were much better off on a good batting pitch with Robin Uthappa and Moeen Ali setting a strong platform for them. Shivam Dubey and Ambati Rayudu also played crucial innings while MS Dhoni came out and scored an unbeaten 16 off 6 balls to set up a challenging chase for Lucknow Super Giants.
On a flat pitch against two inexperienced new-ball bowlers, Rahul and de Kock got off to a fine start and added 99 runs for the opening wicket before Lewis’ attack ensured two points in LSG’s bank.
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KL Rahul and Quinton de Kock are experienced openers. He didn’t make a great start in his first IPL match against Gujarat Titans but against defending champions Chennai Super Kings, both of them caught fire. Rahul and de Kock were ruthless against Mukesh Choudhary, while Tushar Deshpande did well against the intention of attacking an opening pair for 17 runs in his 2 overs.
KL Rahul won the Orange Cap in 2020 and was up for the top scorer’s award in 2021, but he fell for a duck against GT. On Thursday, Rahul showed why he is one of the most dangerous openers in the world – on a pitch that assisted in making strokes, something Rahul rejoiced.
Quinton de Kock reached his fifty off 34 balls, but he was lucky to survive that point until Dwayne Bravo was dismissed by Moeen Ali in the first over.
csk strike back
LSG were cruising with Dwayne Pretorius on his CSK debut, thanks to a good run catch from Ambati Rayudu to dismiss KL Rahul in his first over. The LSG captain was angry with himself for his shot selection but his 26-ball 40 set the tone for Lucknow.
Manish Pandey came to bat at number three but he did not last long. Tushar Deshpande had Pandey caught at mid-off for his second spell as the pace changed in the high-scoring game.
Another dangerous partnership was beginning to take shape between Quinton de Kock and Evin Lewis. Two left-handers, notably Lewis, managed to retain LSG for 211 while CSK slipped in a few economical overs. Lewis was brutal against Deshpande in his final over but CSK bounced back when Pretorius removed fellow South African Quentin de Kock.
Bravo beat Malinga
Dwayne Bravo became the leading wicket-taker in the Indian Premier League when Deepak Hooda was dismissed in the deep and Ravindra Jadeja took a good, quick catch. Bravo could have already achieved this position but Moeen Ali gave relief to Quinton de Kock by taking a simple catch.
Bravo now has 171 wickets in IPL. He equaled Malinga’s record by taking 3 for 20 in 4 overs in the opening match of IPL 2022 against Kolkata Knight Riders.
Massacre of Uthappa
Robin Uthappa was promoted to open order and was disastrous. 2021 Orange Cap winner Ruturaj Gaikwad continued his poor start in IPL 2022 – after being dismissed for naught in the season opener, he was run out for 1 against Lucknow Super Giants on Thursday. But that didn’t stop Robin Uthappa from attacking the LSG bowlers. He remained invincible and scored a half-century in just 25 balls with 8 fours and a six.
Robin Uthappa was looking a little better before Ravi Bishnoi ended his stay with a googly, which pinned him on the backfoot. The on-field umpire turned down a loud appeal but Bishnoi urged LSG captain KL Rahul to use the DRS – it was a good review and LSG got their second breakthrough.
return of moin
Moeen Ali was not there for CSK against KKR but he was coming back with a bang. Batting at No. 3, Moin scored 35 runs in 22 balls and hit 4 fours and 2 sixes in his innings. When he was at the crease, CSK’s estimated total had reached scary proportions. Scary for LSG, of course. Moin was eventually sent back by Avesh Khan – the cameo was entertaining while it lasted but now it was over for Shivam Dube and Ambati Rayudu.
Dubey fire
Shivam Dubey and Ambati Rayudu did not let the rhythm fall. The two added 60 runs in 6.1 overs – Dubey was the more aggressive of the two, but Rayudu did the damage of his share before being bowled for 27 off 20 balls by Ravi Bishnoi. That partnership ensured that CSK made for a colossal total.
Shivam Dubey was relentless in his attack on the LSG bowlers, but he fell short of a half-century when he was caught by Evin Lewis off Avesh Khan. Dubey’s 49 runs included 5 fours and 2 sixes.
MS Dhoni became the 6th Indian to score 7000 T20 runs in his 6-ball 16. After dismissing Shivam Dubey, he blew all the guns out with a six and a four off Avesh Khan. In the last over of CSK’s innings, Andrew Tye was brilliant, dismissing Ravindra Jadeja and Dwayne Pretorius in successive deliveries, but Dhoni achieved his milestone with a boundary off the final ball as CSK were 210 for 7 in 20 overs. Ended up scoring runs.