All-rounder Marcus Stoinis’ brilliant half-century was complimented brilliantly by pacer Yash Thakur’s flurry as they guided Lucknow Supergiants to a 33-run win in IPL 2024 on Sunday Easily defeated Gujarat Titans. LSG, who opted to bat, relied on Stonis’s 58 off 43 balls and his 73-run stand against 62 balls with skipper KL Rahul (33 off 31 balls) to finish with a win for the third wicket. A score of 163 points from 5 shots. Nicholas Pooran made 32 off 22 balls as LSG shone in the final innings. It was a tight chase for GT with Thakur (5/30) and Krunal Pandya (3/11) sharing 8 wickets as they were bowled out for 130 in 18.5 overs.

Opener B Sai Sudharsan (31 off 23) opened his arms and hit Naveen-ul-Haq for two boundaries in the second over .

Sudharsan was at his attacking best, nudging the pacey Mayank Yadav midway through his first delivery.

He then led four other men through Midwicket. If that wasn’t enough, GT captain Shubman Gill (19) hit four more runs to end Mayank’s run, finishing with 13 runs.

Mayank has impressed everyone by consistently bowling at a blistering pace of 150 kmph in the last two games, but tonight he couldn’t even reach 140 kmph and was bowled at first He left the field after the first game due to a side strain.

He has not returned to the game since. However, Gill did not last long as he was dismissed by Thakur in the sixth over.

While Sudarsan held one end, the wickets were tumbling at the other end, with Kane Williamson sending a delivery from Ravi Bishnot straight back to the spinner.

Krunal launched two attacks in the ninth inning to prevent LSG from chasing.

He ended up first with an interesting knock from Sudharsan, the batsman hitting one over the top edge of Bishnoi at deep mid-wicket, and then three balls later BR Sharath scored as LSG were reduced to 61 for 4.

Krunal continued to cause trouble for LSG and Darshan Nalkande became his next victim, catching Thakur at short leg as he tried to power-shot the shot. .

Vijay Shankar scored 17 runs but it was not enough as GT simply could not form a substantial partnership to win the game.

Tewatia (30 off 25) also played a good hand but came too late. Earlier, Umesh Yadav (2/22) had an eventful first over and was dismissed by the in-form Quinton de Kock in the second ball of the innings He then gets a ball to his man after going out for a backward leg boundary.

De Kock took a similar shot to gain an outside edge and Noor Ahmad cleverly collected the third man.

On the first ball of his next over, Umesh was pulled to the square-leg fence by Devdutt Padikkar but the pacer got his revenge through the outside edge of the left-hand bowler and Shankar was not caught at slip A mistake was made, and GT fell to 18 points behind, 2-1 after three points.

Rahul, however, continued his work in a quiet manner, snatching three boundaries from Spencer Johnson with a delightful stroke across the square and straight to the ground. 13 points were scored in the fourth round.

Rahul found a capable ally in Stonis, who played cautiously and sent poor deliveries to the fence to stabilize LSG’s innings.

Rahul’s touch was good, but when he looked to improve the run-rate, the right-hander died.

The right-hander played a huge knock off Narkand but the timing of the shot was wrong and Tewatiya caught a beautiful ball at long off in the 13th over.

Stoinis got a reprieve in the 43rd ball and the Australian seized the opportunity and hit Nalkande over his head with both hands for maximum victory, in the process making his 40th 50 balls were bowled.

Stoinis then hit Nalkande’s ball for six but the young bowler had the last laugh as he caught his man in the next ball and when the batsman again hit the ball for maximum, He was caught by wicketkeeper Sharath.

Pooran’s cameo brought LSG’s total to par.

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