All posts tagged: lucknow super giants

IPL Scenarios: Is Sunrisers Hyderabad match a must-win for Chennai Super Kings? | Cricket News

IPL Scenarios: Is Sunrisers Hyderabad match a must-win for Chennai Super Kings? | Cricket News

Published by Webster

3 min readMay 18, 2026 12:15 PM IST The defeat of Punjab Kings and Rajasthan Royals couldn’t have come at a better time for Chennai Super Kings. Thanks to their favourable results on Sunday, the five-time champions have an opportunity to enter the top-four of the table for the first time this season, provided they beat Sunrisers Hyderabad at their last home game on Monday. Following their defeat to Lucknow Super Giants, Chennai are in a situation where both their last two matches are must-win fixtures. Now at fifth spot with 12 points, a win against the third-placed Hyderabad will help CSK push Punjab down and take the fourth spot. Should they win big, they can even leapfrog to third in the table. But even if they are not able to win big, taking four points from their remaining two games will give them a strong chance to qualify. As things stand, Royal Challengers Bengaluru are the only team that is assured of play-off spot. Gujarat are second and play Chennai on Thursday and that …

Mitchell Marsh’s mayhem gets Lucknow Super Giants rare win, dents Chennai Super Kings’ playoff hopes

Mitchell Marsh’s mayhem gets Lucknow Super Giants rare win, dents Chennai Super Kings’ playoff hopes

Published by Webster

Synopsis: LSG-ian Marsh mellows CSK yellows after Akash flashes notes and serves notice Two wickets in as many balls ignited hope for Chennai Super Kings. A third too would soon fall, but the havoc that Mitchell Marsh had wreaked with his 90 from 38 balls was so irreversible that LSG, resisting all their self-implosive impulses, sauntered past the finish line. Victory would only do so much to restore their battered pride. But it imperils CSK’s playoff hopes and dents their run rate. Marsh, the man his teammates call Bison, sneered. He had sent the first four offerings of Anshul Kamboj over the fence. But the fifth— a savage strike no less — ricocheted off the bowler’s trailing right leg in his follow-through. So ferocious the straight drive was that it landed near the cover fielder. But Marsh did not stop; he was in a merciless mood, brutalising anything his long and powerful levers could reach. AS IT HAPPENED | LUCKNOW SUPER GIANTS VS CHENNAI SUPER KINGS IPL 2026 HIGHLIGHTS No doubt he was venting out …

R Ashwin explains why CSK’s Urvil Patel played the ‘most important innings of IPL 2026’

R Ashwin explains why CSK’s Urvil Patel played the ‘most important innings of IPL 2026’

Published by Webster

3 min readUpdated: May 11, 2026 02:46 PM IST Former India all-rounder R Ashwin heaped praise on Urvil Patel’s scintillating fifty that helped Chennai Super Kings break a long-standing duck in the IPL in their 204-run chase against the Lucknow Super Giants on Sunday evening. The five-time champions CSK were set with the daunting target at the MA Chidambaram Stadium at a crucial point in their campaign, particularly stiffened by their poor chasing record. Since 2019, CSK had never successfully chased down a 180-plus target in the IPL. While the contest against Lucknow stretched nervously to a last-over win, Urvil’s stunning 13-ball half-century had catapulted Chennai to a blistering start. The Gujarat batter smashed five sixes in succession as he romped to the joint-fastest fifty in IPL history, sharing the record with Yashasvi Jaiswal. Ashwin went onto label Urvil’s knock as the most important knock of the season so far. ALSO READ | Who is CSK’s Urvil Patel who hit 6,6,6,6,6,4,6 vs Lucknow Super Giants “Urvil Patel – It was the most important innings of …

‘How did he bowl that ball?’ Virat Kohli question to Bharat Arun on Prince Yadav delivery that dismissed him | Cricket News

‘How did he bowl that ball?’ Virat Kohli question to Bharat Arun on Prince Yadav delivery that dismissed him | Cricket News

Published by Webster

4 min readMay 9, 2026 04:17 PM IST Lucknow Super Giants bowling coach Bharat Arun has revealed Virat Kohli asked young pacer Prince Yadav how did he bowl the delivery that dismissed him during Royal Challengers Bengaluru’s defeat against Lucknow Super Giants. On Thursday, as Lucknow bounced back to winning ways, Prince delivery to Kohli during the chase became the talk of the town, where he made the ball to come back in and castle the stumps. “We had a chat with Kohli, and Kohli said, ‘how did he bowl that ball?’ because it’s not very common. Mostly for out-swing bowlers it swings in the air, after pitching the ball tends to come in because of the position of the seam or how it lands. I don’t think any bowler can bowl it at will, but if you are consistently working on your swing, it can be possible, and it was a dream ball,” Arun said of the delivery that dismissed Kohli. Though Lucknow have endured a horrid season, the performance of Prince has been …

“If Chennai beat LSG in both games…I don’t see a reason for…” Ashwin gives his take on CWK play-off chances

“If Chennai beat LSG in both games…I don’t see a reason for…” Ashwin gives his take on CWK play-off chances

Published by Webster

4 min readMay 9, 2026 03:38 PM IST With back to back wins in their last two matches in IPL this season, Chennai Super Kings have climbed to the sixth spot in the points table with ten points in ten matches. With four matches still left for the team in the league stage, the Ruturaj Gaekwad led Chennai team will face Lucknow Super Giants twice, first at Lucknow on May 10th and then at Chennai on May 15 before they face Sunrisers Hyderabad at Chennai on May 18 and Gujarat Titans at Ahmedabad on May 21. Former Indian spinner and two-time IPL winner Ravichandran Ashwin believes if Chennai can score a win over Lucknow Super Giants in these two matches, he sees no reason the team can win the remaining two matches and qualify for the play-offs. “Chennai Super Kings are going to play two games against Lucknow Super Giants. Let’s not make the mistake of saying this ahead of time. LSG are no pushovers but in case they (Chennai) beat LSG in both those …

Seam, speed, swing — how Shami, Mayank and Prince are building LSG’s pace pack | Cricket News

Seam, speed, swing — how Shami, Mayank and Prince are building LSG’s pace pack | Cricket News

Published by Webster

Three bowlers. One powerplay. The seam, the speed, the swing – each doing a different job, each doing it well. LSG may not be winning. The same can’t be said about the pace pack. Mohammed Shami took the new ball in RCB’s chase. The ball angled in, straightened off the deck; Bethell swung across the line. Prince Yadav held the catch at deep backward point. In the second over, seam-up again, Patidar beaten outside off. “Jis din main bore ho jaaunga – us din main cricket chhod dunga,” (I will quit the day I am bored). Shami had said on Shubhankar Mishra’s YouTube channel a few weeks before this game. “Records uthake dekh lijiye. IPL mein bhi Indian bowlers ke aaspaas ho koi — phir bhi log kehte hain main T20 ka bowler nahi hoon.” (You can check the records – there may not be many Indian bowlers close to me, yet they say I am not a T20 bowler). The ball still does what he asks it to. He has taken four wickets in …

‘Gives you different level of confidence’

‘Gives you different level of confidence’

Published by Webster

2 min readMay 8, 2026 08:11 AM IST Lucknow Super Giants pacer Prince Yadav credited senior India fast bowler Mohammed Shami for helping him grow in confidence after his three-wicket haul against Royal Challengers Bengaluru in Lucknow on Thursday. Prince returned figures of 3/33 in four overs and said regular conversations with Shami have helped him improve as a bowler. “We keep talking to him. In fact, Mohammed Shami is also there. We keep talking about positive things and how to deliver well,” Prince said during the post-match press conference. ALSO READ | Prince Yadav’s 3-wicket haul and Mitchell Marsh’s 111 power LSG past RCB in last-over thriller “I have learnt a lot from him. But the best thing about him is that whenever a bowler is bowling, he stands at mid-on or mid-off. “If an experienced bowler stands with you, it gives you a different level of confidence.” With 20 runs needed in the final over, Rishabh Pant had to choose between bowling Shahbaz Ahmed or spinner Digvesh Rathi. Pant backed Rathi, and the …

‘Don’t think money has anything to do with it’: Justin Langer throws weight behind ‘selfless’ Rishabh Pant | Cricket News

‘Don’t think money has anything to do with it’: Justin Langer throws weight behind ‘selfless’ Rishabh Pant | Cricket News

Published by Webster

4 min readMay 5, 2026 01:31 PM IST Rishabh Pant’s returns with the bat continued to lag on Monday even as some of his big-ticket teammates at Lucknow Super Giants finally managed to find some form. The LSG captain fell after scoring 15 in 10 balls as LSG lost by six wickets to Mumbai Indians at the Wankhede Stadium, thus sinking to their sixth consecutive defeat. The innings took Pant’s tally for the season to 204 runs at a strike rate of 128.30 and average of 25.50. While this is woefully below par by any standard, it is a continuation of a pattern that was set last season, in which Pant scored 269 runs in 14 matches at a strike rate of 133.17 and average of 24.45. Nearly half of those runs came from his last innings of the season alone, in which he scored an unbeaten 118 in 61 balls. That innings remains an outlier, with Pant scoring just two half-centuries apart from that in the 23 innings he has played as captain of …