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Lucknow Super Giants defeated Mumbai Indians by 18 runs in the 67th match of IPL-2024. Despite this win, the team was out of the playoff race. On the other hand, Mumbai is at the bottom with 8 points after this defeat. The team has remained at number 10 for the second consecutive season.
Host Mumbai won the toss and elected to bowl at the Wankhede Stadium on Friday. Lucknow scored 214 runs for 6 wickets in 20 overs. In reply, Mumbai could score only 196 runs for 6 wickets in 20 overs. Nicholas Puran played an inning of 75 runs on 29 balls. His innings included 5 fours and 8 sixes. Puran was adjudged player of the match.
Why is LSG out even after winning?
With the help of 2 points from this win, LSG has been able to score only 14 points out of 14 matches in the current season. CSK and DC also have the same number of points. Chennai has one match left, while Delhi has played all its matches.
So far, Lucknow’s net run rate (-0.667) is worse than Chennai (0.528) and Delhi (-0.377). In such a situation, even if Chennai loses the match by a big margin, Delhi will remain ahead of Lucknow in the race. If the match is won and canceled, Chennai will become the fourth team to enter the playoffs.
Players’ performance: Rahul-Puran’s fifty, Bishnoi-Naveen’s 2-2 wickets
For LSG, Nicholas Puran played a half-century innings of 75 runs in 29 balls. His innings included 5 fours and 8 sixes. Whereas, KL Rahul scored 55 runs. Piyush Chawla and Nuwan Thushara from Mumbai got 3 wickets each.
For MI, Rohit Sharma scored 68 runs on 38 balls, while Naman Dheer played an unbeaten inning of 62 runs. Ravi Bishnoi and Naveen-ul-Haq got 2 wickets.
LSG match winners…
Performance of MI players
Reasons for Mumbai’s defeat
- Bowlers could not create pressure in powerplay Mumbai’s Nuwan Thushara sent Devdutt Padikkal to the pavilion on zero on the third ball of the first over. Here the team score was one run, but in the absence of Jasprit Bumrah, Mumbai bowlers could not put pressure on Lucknow in the powerplay. Lucknow’s score in powerplay was 49/2.
- 121 runs were given away in the middle 10 overs Mumbai bowlers, after taking two wickets in the powerplay, spent 121 runs in the middle 10 overs and got only one wicket. 44 runs came in the last 4 overs also. In such a situation, Lucknow managed to score 200+.
- Middle order failed, Surya out on zero Rohit-Brevis could not maintain the momentum after a strong start in the run chase. Rohit and Brewis gave a strong start to the team by making an opening partnership of 88 runs on 52 balls. After Brevis was out, the team lost the next two wickets for just 9 runs. Surya (0 runs), Ishaan (14 runs), Hardik (16 runs) and Nehal (1 run) failed.
Match report from here…
Bad start for Lucknow, lost wicket in first over
Batting after losing the toss, Lucknow had a bad start. The team lost a wicket in the very first over. From here KL Rahul and Marcus Stoinis took over the innings. The team lost the wicket of Stoinis on the last ball of the powerplay, when the score was 49 runs.
Rahul-Puran’s century partnership
After losing the third wicket for 69 runs, captain KL Rahul made a century partnership of 109 runs on 44 balls with Marcus Stoinis for the fourth wicket. This partnership took the team to a strong score.
Strong start for Mumbai in run chase, Rohit-Brevis added 88 runs
Mumbai, which is chasing the big target of 215 runs, is not off to a good start. The team had scored 53 runs in the powerplay without losing any wicket. The pair of Rohit and Brewis made an opening partnership of 88 runs on 52 balls.
Ishaan-Dhir’s fifty partnership
After losing 5 wickets at the team score of 120, Ishan Kishan made a fifty partnership with Naman Dheer. Both added 68 runs on 32 balls for the sixth wicket.
Playing-11 of both the teams
Mumbai Indians: Hardik Pandya (captain), Ishan Kishan (wicketkeeper), Namar Dheer, Suryakumar Yadav, Dewald Brevis, Nehal Wadhera, Romario Shepherd, Anshul Kamboj, Piyush Chawla, Nuwan Thushara and Arjun Tendulkar.
Impact Player: Rohit Sharma.
Lucknow Super Giants: KL Rahul (captain and wicketkeeper), Devdutt Padikkal, Marcus Stoinis, Deepak Hooda, Ayush Badoni, Krunal Pandya, Nicholas Pooran, Arshad Khan, Matt Henry, Ravi Bishnoi, Mohsin Khan.
Impact Player: Naveen Ul-Haq.
