Lucknow Super Giants vs Delhi Capitals: In IPL 2024, the 26th match of this season was played between Lucknow Super Giants and Delhi Capitals on Friday. In this match, Delhi Capitals defeated Lucknow by 6 wickets. Kuldeep Yadav and Jack Fraser-McGurk were the heroes of this victory of Delhi. While Kuldeep wreaked havoc with the ball, McGurk played a stormy innings with the bat, the result was that the Lucknow team lost for the first time at home by scoring more than 160 runs.
After the brilliant bowling of Kuldeep Yadav (three wickets for 20 runs in four overs), on the basis of aggressive batting of Jack Fraser McGurk (55 runs in 35 balls) and captain Rishabh Pant (41 runs in 24 balls), Delhi Capitals defeated Lucknow on Friday. Recorded its second win by defeating India by six wickets. Captain Rishabh Pant and McGurk, who was playing the debut match, made a partnership of 77 runs in 46 balls for the third wicket, in which Pant hit four fours and two sixes. Whereas 22 year old McGurk of Australia hit five sixes and two fours.
After restricting Lucknow team to 167 runs for seven wickets, Delhi Capitals achieved the target at the loss of four wickets in 18.1 overs. For Lucknow, Ravi Bishnoi took two wickets while Naveen Ul Haq and Yash Thakur took one wicket each. Lucknow set a challenging score with the half-century innings of Ayush Badoni (55 not out) and unbroken partnership of 73 runs in 42 balls with Arshad Khan (20 not out) for the eighth wicket. This partnership of Badoni and Arshad is the biggest partnership for the eighth wicket in IPL history.
DELHI CAPITALS BECOME THE FIRST TEAM IN IPL HISTORY TO CHASE DOWN 160+ RUNS AGAINST LUCKNOW 🤯
– Pant & his boys have created history. pic.twitter.com/oaxfbqFNqc
— Johns. (@CricCrazyJohns) April 12, 2024
Lucknow team was struggling in front of the brilliant bowling of ‘Player of the Match’ Kuldeep Yadav, losing seven wickets for 94 runs after 13 overs, but Badoni and Arshad together took the team to a good score. Delhi has become the first IPL team to chase more than 160 runs in Lucknow.
While chasing the target, David Warner (six runs) hit a four against Arshad in the first over, while Prithvi Shaw (32 runs) hit two fours against Naveen Ul Haq. Yash Thakur bowled Warner in the fourth over. After this McGurk opened the account with a six. After this he also hit a six on Arshad Khan. Shaw hit fours on consecutive balls of Krunal Pandya in the sixth over, due to which Delhi’s score in the powerplay became 62 runs for one wicket. Puran took a brilliant catch of Shaw on the ball of Ravi Bishnoi who came to bowl in the seventh over. Shaw hit six fours in his innings of 32 runs in 22 balls.
After this, Lucknow’s bowlers tightened the grip on Delhi’s batsmen for some time, but captain Rishabh Pant increased the run pace a bit by hitting sixes and fours on consecutive balls against Bishnoi in the 11th over. With this he completed the figure of 3000 runs in this league.
In the next over, Bishnoi took an easy catch of McGurk on Stoinis’ ball and Pant completed the team’s hundred runs by hitting two fours in the same over. McGurk celebrated the benefit of Jeevandan by hitting three consecutive sixes in Krunal’s over. He completed his half-century in 31 balls by taking four and three runs against Thakur in the 14th over. In the same over, Pant hit the second six of his innings, due to which for the first time the number of required runs was reduced with the ball.
Naveen showed McGurk the way to the pavilion in the 15th over of the match and then Pant got stumped while trying to get Bishnoi’s ball out of the crease. Shai Hope (11 runs not out) and Truston Stubbs (15 runs not out) then completed the formalities of victory by scoring the required runs.