WATCH: LSG vs PBKS match highlights and analysis

Lucknow Super Giants captain Okay.L. Rahul will look again at tonight’s two-wicket defeat – its first at house this 12 months – towards  Punjab Kings in an  IPL 2023 match on the Ekana Cricket Stadium in Lucknow with a curious smile. His 56-ball 74, although the bedrock of his staff’s innings, as soon as once more raised questions on his standing as a classic automobile amongst Ferraris within the format.

But his transfer to carry again leggie Ravi Bishnoi, on a wicket the place the ball gripped and turned, until the fifteenth over practically proved to be a masterstroke; what with figures of two for 10 after two overs. But with seven wanted from six, Bishnoi stuttered as PBKS rode on Shahrukh Khan’s blockbuster 10-ball 23 and Sikandar Raza’s 41-ball 57 to snap its shedding streak and transfer to fourth within the factors desk.

Bishnoi had accounted for PBKS stand-in captain Sam Curran – Shikhar Dhawan was out with a niggle – in his first over earlier than getting Raza caught in his subsequent. Bishnoi’s guile was matched by Mark Wood’s laborious lengths at categorical tempo however the lack of a flourishing end whereas batting value LSG dearly.

With PBKS 82/4 in 12 overs, Raza had breathed life again right into a dwindling chase when he took 17 off Krunal Pandya within the thirteenth over, with two sixes and a 4. The Zimbabwe all-rounder, at 36, is enjoying in his maiden IPL and was in sensational T20 type coming into this event.

He hit seven boundaries throughout his knock but in addition ran effectively between wickets to maintain the Kings ticking on a sluggish floor. When he lastly fell, the Kings nonetheless wanted 21 off 13 balls, however Shahrukh biffed two sixes and a 4 to resuscitate the chase and finally took his staff over the road.

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