Match 15: Royal Challengers Bangalore Vs Lucknow Super Giants.
Hello everyone, Welcome back here. We take look on match 15 between Royal Challengers Bangalore Vs Lucknow Super Giants, where in another interesting match Lucknow Super Giants beat Royal Challengers Bangalore by 1 wicket.
The match was held in M.Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru. Lucknow Super Giants won the toss and opted to bowl first. This is fourth match of LSG, in first and third match they won against DC & SRH by 50 runs and by 5 wickets respectively while lose second match against CSK by 12 runs. This is third match of RCB and they won first match against MI by 8 wickets while in second match lose against KKR by 81 runs.
The opening batman from RCB was Virat Kohli and Faf du Plessis. Both players made very good opening for RCB. Kohli started hitting to LSG bowlers. He played good shots. In first power play of 6 overs RCB were made 56 runs losing no wicket. By hitting 4 fours and 3 big sixes, Virat made his fifty in 35 balls, where score of RCB was 72 runs. After 10 overs score of RCB was 87 runs without losing any wicket. But Virat lose his wicket on 61 runs made in 44 balls to Amit Mishra. Glenn Maxwell was next player on field. Both players made good runs and played shots all over the ground. After 15 overs score of RCB was 137 runs losing 1 wicket. After that Faf du Plessis complete his fifty by hitting six to Wood, just in 35 balls. From other end Glenn Maxwell started hitting to LSG bowlers. He also completed his fifty by hitting six to Avesh Khan. He made fifty just in 24 balls. But in second last ball of 20th over he lose his wicket. He made 59 runs just in 29 balls containing 6 bigger sixes. Finally, RCB mad a huge score of 212 runs just losing 2 wickets in 20 overs, where Faf du Plessis remains not out on 79 runs just made in 46 balls containing 5 fours and 5 big sixes. This is the second highest score made by any team in this IPL.
Taking target of 213 runs in 20 overs, opening batsman from LSG were Kyle Mayers and KL Rahul. The start of LSG was not good. Kyle Mayers lose his wicket in first over to Siraj on zero runs. Deepak Hooda was next player on field. He lose his wicket to Wayne Parnell on just 9 runs. Krunal Pandya was next one on the field. He also not did good and lose wicket on zero runs. LSG was looking in big trouble. Marcus Stoinis was next player on field. After first power play of 6 overs LSG were made 37 runs losing 3 wickets. Now Marcus Stoinis took charge on field. He started hitting to bowlers of RCB. In 10th over by hitting big six to Shahbaz Ahmed, he made fifty runs just in 25 balls. After 10 overs LSG were made 91 runs on 3 wickets. But while hitting big shots he lose his wicket to Karn Sharma on 65 runs made in 30 balls hitting 6 fours and 5 big sixes. KL Rahul also lose his wicket on 18 runs to Mohammed Siraj. Nicholas Pooran and Ayush Badoni were next batmen on field. At this time score of LSG was 105 runs in 11 overs. They were needed 108 runs in 54 balls to win the match. But Nicholas Pooran change condition on field. He made big shots all over ground and hit on RCB bowlers.
He made his fifty just in 15 balls by hitting six to Parnell. This is the fastest fifty in this IPL. After 15 overs score of LSG was 171 runs by losing 5 wickets. From other side Ayush Badoni stand on field and made some good runs for LSG. But on last ball of 17 over Nicholas Pooran lose his wicket on 65 runs made in just 19 balls, hitting 4 fours and 7 big sixes. The score of LSG was 189 runs losing 6 wickets. Now match again was on interesting mode. LSG were require 24 runs just in 18 balls. But in 19th over Ayush Badoni which was set batman, lose his wicket. He made important 30 runs in 24 balls. In last 6 balls LSG required 5 runs to win match. But wood lose his wicket on second ball and now LSG required 4 runs in 4 balls. Next player Ravi Bishnoi made 3 runs in 2 balls and equals the score of 212 runs. Now striker Jaydev Unadkat lose his wicket on 9 runs and LSG needed 1 runs in 1 ball. Avesh Khan was next player on field. But drama yet remained. Harshal tried run out the non-striker! But he misses and then has a throw at the stumps, but it won’t count! Because you can’t throw after attempting to run the non-striker out. Harshal had to bowl again! It’s gone absolutely crazy the moment Faf took the catch. He bobbled but hung on. LSG surely the more nervous team at that moment. But on last ball Harshal beat Avesh but he sets off for the run. DK fumbled! And they get the single run! LSG win amid high drama. Karthik didn’t collect cleanly ball and Bishnoi was already halfway down after throwing his bat while setting off only. Avesh throws his helmet as the celebrations begin. And this is first time successful chase of second highest run. That’s another interesting, unbelievable match in this IPL. LSG won match on last ball and by 1 wicket.