It may have been Virat Kohli’s 100th Twenty20 match at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru, but it was the Lucknow Super Giants who celebrated on Tuesday as they beat Royal Challengers Bengaluru by 28 runs runs in the 2024 Indian Premier League.
The visiting side were put in to bat first by Bengaluru captain Faf du Plessis and got off to a fiery start with openers Quinton de Kock and KL Rahul making good use of the opening Powerplay. The Bengaluru fast bowlers were under attack almost immediately and Glenn Maxwell’s offbreak proved to be the key as Rahul was dismissed for 20.
However, de Kock continued his charge and was assisted by Marcus Stoinis and later on Nicholas Pooran. The South African batter finished with an innings of 81 off 56 balls in what was his 22nd half-century in the IPL. Although Reece Topley managed to get that breakthrough for his team, Pooran struck three sixes off him in the penultimate over and then two more in the final over as Lucknow finished with 181/5.
The chase began in a similar fashion with Kohli and du Plessis striking the ball cleanly in their 40-run partnership. However, things quickly turned around when impact substitute Manimaran...
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