The 21st match of IPL 2024 is being played between Lucknow Super Giants and Gujarat Titans at Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Cricket Stadium.
Lucknow Super Giants have played 3 matches in IPL 2024. In which 2 matches have been won and 1 match has been lost. At the same time, Gujarat Titans have played 4 matches, out of which they have won 2 matches and lost 2.
Between LSG vs GT, Lucknow Super Giants captain KL Rahul has won the toss and decided to bat first.
Let’s enjoy this great competition together…
LSG vs GT, 1st Inning Set target by LSG
Lucknow Super Giants, who came to bat first after winning the toss, scored 84 runs with the loss of 2 wickets in the first 11 overs.
After this, Lucknow has scored 121 runs with the loss of 4 wickets in 16 overs.
In the end 163 runs were scored after losing five wickets in 20 overs.
In this match, star batsman Marcus Stoinis played a brilliant inning of 58 runs for Lucknow Super Giants.
In this innings, Umesh Yadav and Darshan Nalkande took maximum two wickets each for Gujarat Titans.
LSG vs GT, LSG scored 163 runs and set the target of 164 runs in 20 overs for Gujarat Titans team to win this match.
LSG vs GT, 2nd Inning Recounter by GT
In the second innings, Gujarat team came on the field to complete the target of 164 runs given by Lucknow.
After this, to complete the target, LSG could score only 67 runs after losing 4 wickets in the first ten overs.
Till the next 15th over, Gujarat’s batsmen were seen performing very weakly, till now Gujarat could chase the target only till 93 runs after losing 7 wickets.
Seeing such a situation, the fans of Gujarat started looking very sad, they started realizing that it will not be easy for Gujarat to win the match in today’s match.
Finally this happened in the 19th over, in 18.5 overs all the Gujarat batsmen returned to the pavilion after scoring 130 runs.
In this way, in today’s LSG vs GT match at its home ground, Lucknow managed to register its victory by 33 runs.
LSG vs GT: Statement
KL Rahul | LSG captain: We’ll take the win, I am not going to make too much out of it (on defending totals). For the young bowling unit we have, it helps when we bat first.
They get an idea how the wicket is playing and they’ve also been adapting really well. It’s a good record to have (defending all 160+ totals), but it’s also where we’ve played.
Having the home advantage helps. The bowlers have come through the ranks over the last couple of years. you have seen the same guys bowling in the last season as well., They have adjusted to their roles. Hopefully we can continue this.
We knew that it wasn’t as good as the wicket we played on (in the previous match here), also losing two wickets in the powerplay will set us back a bit. Unless someone carries on to get 70-80, it was tough to achieve that 170-180.
We just wanted to bat and see how much we can get. That’s the advantage you have when you are batting first. All three spinners have been key for us. Sid coming in this season has done really well, he plays a crucial part with the new ball, he’s shown great temperament.
His job is to restrict the batters. KP (Krunal Pandya) is very experienced, he’s played IPL for so many seasons. Bishnoi has been around for so many years and keeps getting better. Feels good to get off the mark there (first win vs GT).
Shubman Gill | GT captain: It was a good wicket to bat on, a poor batting performance by us. We got a decent start, but we lost wickets in the middle and couldn’t recover from that. Our bowlers were exceptional as they restricted them to 160-odd, just that our batters let us down. (On missing David Miller) Miller is a kind of a player who can change a game in a couple of overs, because I think this total was very gettable for us.
(On his dismissal) I thought it was the last over of the powerplay and I just wanted to make the most of it, just that I missed that ball as I tried to play a bit too square.
It was tremendous to watch our bowlers bowl, we were looking forward to restricting them around 160-165.
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