Lucknow Super Giants captain KL Rahul smashed a 56-ball century in his 100th IPL match to knock five-time champions Mumbai Indians out of the league in an 18-run win on Saturday.
Rahul’s unbeaten 103 off 60 balls, his third three-figure run in all editions of the IPL, propelled Lucknow to a commanding score of 199 for four and then his bowlers restricted MI to 181 for nine in 20 overs. joined the party for
With six consecutive losses, the tournament is as good as it gets for the league’s most popular team before it has even reached the halfway stage.
Rohit Sharma (6)’s nightmare of the tournament continued while Ishan Kishan (13 off 17 balls) is certainly feeling the pressure of the Rs 15.25 crore mark as he played off Marcus Stoinis’ delivery and smashed a foam-based boundary. Showed his disappointment by breaking. Rope.
In between, Dewald Brevis (31 off 13 balls) struck some breathtaking shots before another pursuit of the season, NT Tilak Verma (26 off 26), and the always dependable Suryakumar Yadav (37 off 27 balls) resurfaced. Added 64 runs for Turn.
Once Jason Holder delivered a yorker to Tilak, the match ended in a contest with Surya not getting the necessary support from the other batsmen, although Kieron Pollard (25 off 14 balls) lost his bat. Throw it there.
Surya’s dismissal after failing to send Ravi Bishnoi long-hop, MI was the final nail in the coffin.
Lucknow fast bowlers Avesh Khan (3/30 in 4 overs) and Dushmantha Chamira (1/48 in 4 overs) got good support from Holder (1/13 in 4 overs) and Stoinis (1/13 in 2 overs).
Lucknow have registered four wins in six matches while MI have lost a dozen matches for the first time in 15 editions of the IPL.
The kind of team they’ve assembled will be worse from here on out because there’s no plan B, and more importantly, the players execute the plan.
For Rahul, both as a batsman and captain, the IPL is proving to be the platform he desperately needed to enhance his captaincy credentials with respect to the national team.
On his way to his century, he added another quick 43 runs with Quinton de Kock (24 off 13 balls), 72 with Manish Pandey (38 off 29 balls) and Deepak Hooda (15 off 8 balls). Fourth wicket.
MI’s fielding was probably their worst in the last four to five seasons and it didn’t help that Rahul was in poor form to make full use of it.
Devoid of credible options in the dug-out, it was only natural that the tournament’s most successful captain, Rohit Sharma, looked clearly out of ideas and the role of an extra spinner in left-arm orthodox Fabian Allen (1/4 in 4 overs) It was his trick to act. ) didn’t quite work.
Jasprit Bumrah (0/24 in four overs) is carrying the burden but one man cannot save the team from the disaster that has happened this season.
Otherwise why would the Mumbai captain start with part-time off-spinner Tilak Verma, knowing that the Lucknow skipper is a master of slow bowlers.
Six different bowlers were used in the six powerplay overs and de Kock should blame himself for wasting his opportunity to score a big score on a track like the shirtfront.
Rahul had plenty of short deliveries to play cut and pull and slog sweep to his will, and not to forget some amusing drives when the pitch was over.
Twenty four and seven sixes were proof of MI’s plight and Tymal Mills (0/54 in 3 overs), Jaydev Unadkat (2/32 in 4 overs) and Murugan Ashwin (1/3 in 4 overs) tried their best but were successful. Couldn’t happen.
Sample it: Ashwin bowls a good googly and Stoinis hits him for the biggest six. Allen bowls a wicket-to-wicket delivery and Rahul hits a six behind the boundary.
Between overs 13 to 16, Rahul and Co added 60 runs and it didn’t help them because MI had one of the worst days in the outfield, not being able to cut boundaries even after catching the ball.
The absence of Trent Boult, Kruel Pandya or Rahul Chahar is hurting MI badly and getting 16 mid-of-the-road players for just 18 crores has not proved to be a wise business decision so far.
score board
Lucknow Super Giants innings: KL Rahul not out 103 Quinton de Kock lbw b Fabian Allen 24 Manish Pandey b M Ashwin 38 Marcus Stoinis c Rohit b Unadkat 10 Deepak Hooda c Ishan Kishan b Unadkat 15 Krunal Pandya not out 1 extra: (lb-3, w-5) 8
Total: (for 4 wickets in 20 overs) 199
Fall of wickets: 1-52, 2-124, 3-155, 4-198
Mumbai Indians Bowling: Tilak Verma 1-0-7-0, Jaydev Unadkat 4-0-32-2, Murugan Ashwin 4-0-33-1, Jasprit Bumrah 4-0-24-0, Tymal Mills 3-0-54-0, Fabian Allen 4-0-46-1.
Mumbai Indians innings: Ishan Kishan b Stoinis 13 Rohit Sharma c de Kock b Avesh Khan 6 Devold Brevis c Deepak Hooda b Avesh Khan 31 Suryakumar Yadav c K Gautam B Ravi Bishnoi 37 Tilak Verma b Holder 26 Kieron Pollard c Stoinis b Chamira 25 Fabian Allen c Chamira b Avesh Khan 8 Jaydev Unadkat run out 14 Murugan Ashwin run out 6 Jasprit Bumrah not out 0 Tymal Mills not out 0
Excessive: 15 (lb-6, w-9) 15
Total: 181/9 in 20 overs
Fall of wickets: 16-1, 57-2, 57-3, 121-4, 127-5, 153-6, 175-7, 181-8, 181-9
Lucknow Super Giants Bowling Jason Holder 4-0-34-1, Dushmantha Chamira 4-0-48-1, Avesh Khan 4-0-30-3, Ravi Bishnoi 4-0-34-1, Marcus Stoinis 2-0-13-1, Krunal Pandya 2-0-16-0.