Watch the highlights of LSG vs CSK 45th Match IPL 2023 - Indian Premier League Twenty20 tournament of the 45th T20 match played between Chennai Super Kings and Lucknow Super Giants at Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Cricket Stadium, Lucknow in 03rd May 2023.
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| Ayush Badoni celebrates his fifty © Associated Press |
Rain stopped the play between Lucknow Super Giants and Chennai Super Kings after Ayush Badoni's blazing unbeaten half-century in the 45th match of a Indian Premier League.
LSG scored 125-7 in 19.2 overs when rain stopped the play - with top scorer by Ayush Badoni blasted a unbeaten 59 off 33-balls including 4-sixes & 2-fours with strike rate of 178.78.
Nicholas Pooran scored 20 off 31-balls without a boundary and Kyle Mayers hit 14 off 17-balls included two boundaries.
CSK best bowler by Moeen Ali, Matheesha Pathirana, Maheesh Theekshana each took 2-wickets and one for Ravindra Jadeja.
This match reported by Sreshth Shah (Third Party Reference from ESPNcricinfo)
The fixture was significant for the return of two fast bowlers - Deepak Chahar for Chennai Super Kings and Mohsin Khan for Lucknow Super Giants Rain had the final say in Lucknow, where MS Dhoni's Chennai Super Kings had taken the upper hand against the Super Giants after 19.2 action-packed overs of the first innings. CSK spinners ran through the home team's line-up, but 23-year-old Ayush Badoni scored a counter-attacking fifty before the game was called off at 6.56 pm local time.
The game had started 15 minutes late due to an afternoon shower, and the surface ended up assisting spin big time. Moeen Ali dismissed Kyle Mayers for the second time in the season, and Maheesh Theekshana accounted for Manan Vohra and Krunal Pandya off successive deliveries in the sixth over. Moeen held on to a tough caught-and-bowled chance to remove Karan Sharma, but the best wicket was Ravindra Jadeja bowling Marcus Stoinis with one that pitched outside the right-hander's leg stump and spun sharply to hit off, leaving the batter dumbfounded.
At 44 for 5 in the 10th over, the Super Giants were sinking but Badoni and Nicholas Pooran steadied the innings. They added 59 for the sixth wicket, but Pooran's contribution was only 14, with Badoni taking charge. He smashed two sixes off Theekshana and reached fifty with another six off Deepak Chahar in the 19th over to give the Super Giants a fighting chance.
Rain forced the players off the field in the 20th over of the first innings and did not ease up enough for play to resume, leaving both Super Kings and Super Giants with one point each from the contest. Both teams are on 11 points after ten games.
The fixture was also significant for the return of two fast bowlers. Chahar was fit again for CSK after missing six games because of a hamstring injury and returned figures of 0 for 41 in four overs. Mohsin Khan was named in the Super Giants XI for the first time this season, after spending almost the entire year since the previous IPL recovering from injury, but did not get the chance to bowl because of the bad weather.
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