A downpour got here as a respite for Lucknow Super Giants because it managed to finish its sequence of losses at dwelling within the IPL match in opposition to Chennai Super Kings on the Ekana Cricket Stadium on Wednesday.
Steady rain, which stopped play with 4 deliveries remaining within the Super Giants innings, didn’t relent, forcing the umpires to name off the match at 7 p.m. The groups received a degree every. At the time of interruption, Super Giants had limped to 125 for seven in 19.2 overs.
The Chennai Super Kings spinners tied the Super Giants batters in knots and it wanted a brisk knock from Ayush Badoni, who hit 4 sixes and two fours in his unbeaten 59 off 33 balls, to resurrect the innings.
Scripting a revival
Badoni figured in a 59-run sixth-wicket stand off 48 balls with the uncharacteristically subdued Nicholas Pooran (20) as Super Giants recovered from a precarious place (44 for 5) to achieve a par whole on a sluggish pitch.
Badoni offered the ultimate flourish, smashing 20 off Deepak Chahar’s closing over — the penultimate one of many Super Giants innings.
Badoni, after top-edging a 4, imperiously pulled Chahar over mid-wicket for a six and struck a most over extra-cover.
After the beginning was delayed by rain, the Super Kings bowlers, particularly the tweakers, justified Dhoni’s determination to bowl first by rocking the Super Giants line-up.
The rut began when Kyle Mayers’ try and hit Moeen Ali over long-off ended within the palms of Ruturaj Gaikwad.
Maheesh Theekshana’s two in two — he cleaned up Manan Vohra and compelled Krunal Pandya to edge to Ajinkya Rahane at slip off the following supply — pushed Lucknow deeper into bother. Ravindra Jadeja castled Marcus Stoinis with a ball that spun throughout and beat the bat, leaving the Australian shocked.
Karan Sharma danced down the observe however hit the ball straight again to bowler Moeen. But Badoni rose to the event to rescue Super Giants earlier than the heavens opened.
Source: sportstar.thehindu.com