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KL Rahul, skipper of LSG and Player of the Match: Feels good at the end of the day. When you win, most decisions feel right. We were committed to our plans. Really happy with that. Depends on the wicket, I deploy my bowlers. We tried to mix it around. The bowlers executed really well. The team is sticking to the plans. Halfway stage, I would have been happy with 160. The wicket was slow and a bit of grip. MSD walked in and the pressure got to the bowlers. He has had the intimidation on opposition bowlers. Our young bowlers were put under pressure with the crowd going berserk as well. 15-20 runs extra they got. I have been trying to assess the situation. It came off today. I knew the CSK spinners will put the pressure on. I picked my bowlers and it came off. Quinton batted well as well. Made life easy for both. Different ball game playing in Chennai. Was playing in front of mini Chennai crowd. We are a young team and happy to play in front of such a crowd. |
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Marcus Stoinis: We did need that, it was a very important win for us. We've got these guys - Chennai - in a couple of days' time, it's important two games for us, it's nice to be back on the winning board. We are playing good cricket. With how we started with the ball and taking early wickets, I think we could have kept them under that total. Hats off to the way they played and they finished obviously with MS. They played well towards the end but it's a nice wicket and we built some partnerships. Quinny (de Kock) and KL batted beautifully to pretty much seal it and then Nicky (Pooran) came in and iced the cake. That's an important partnership for us at the top. Having that continuity, having them get us off to a start allows us to play the rest of the innings and to build an order around it as well. We've got that confidence with our team and the nice thing about this season so far is there's been different boys stepping up and chipping in to win these games at different stages. We've had our bowling attack bowl well, we've had our batters bat well, had our opening partnership tonight. Different people are putting their hand up which I think is a great sign for the team. I said to KL if I was done for the next four games or are you going to give me the ball again. I wanna bowl, if you can get into the captain's ear and just push that, it'll be great. |
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Ruturaj Gaikwad I CSK skipper: We finished well with the bat, couldn't have asked more about the situation we were in. After powerplay, we couldn't capitalize on the start we got and we kept losing wickets at regular intervals. I would say we were 10-15 runs short. Slightly difficult with such a total, with the impact sub-rule you need 10-15 or even 20 runs extra. Pitches like these seem sluggish to start off with but with dew coming on it gets better, 190 would have been a good score. One area we would like to improve in taking wickets in the powerplay. That will put pressure on the opposition. We need to work on it. Good to play them again (next game at Chepauk). We will come up with good homework done now that we have three home games. |
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Lucknow Super Giants won by 8 wickets |
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18.6
4 Over 18.6 Tushar Deshpande bowls it short of length to Nicholas Pooran, Boundary! Backed away and managed to get it over point and gets the winning runs with a boundary |
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18.6
4 Over 18.6 Tushar Deshpande bowls a back of length delivery to Nicholas Pooran, no ball, gets forward and wanted to open the face of the bat but missed it. CSK have reviewed it. Despite Pooran bending down, it was still close to being head high. CSK taking their chance. |
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18.5
1 Over 18.5 Tushar Deshpande bowls a back of length delivery to Marcus Stoinis,1 runs, goes on to the back foot and tucks it down the leg side and picks up a single |
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18.4
2 Over 18.4 Tushar Deshpande bowls a pitched up delivery to Marcus Stoinis, 2 runs, gets forward and sliced it down to deep third man for a couple of runs. The throw came in at the bowler's end. But easy two scored |
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18.3
0 Over 18.3 Tushar Deshpande bowls a pitched up delivery to Marcus Stoinis, 2 runs, gets forward and slices it down to deep third man for a couple of runs. The throw came in at the bowler's end. But easy two scored |
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18.3
0 Over 18.3 Tushar Deshpande bowls a pitched up delivery to Marcus Stoinis, 2 runs, gets forward and slices it down to deep third man for a couple of runs. The throw came in at the bowler's end. But easy two scored |
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18.3
0+wd Over 18.3 Tushar Deshpande bowls a pitched up delivery to Marcus Stoinis, 2 runs, gets forward and slices it down to deep third man for a couple of runs. The throw came in at the bowler's end. But easy two scored |
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18.2
4 Over 18.2 Tushar Deshpande bowls a half volley to Marcus Stoinis, Boundary! Gets forward and drills it wide of the deep cover fielder and gets a boundary |
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18.1
1 Over 18.1 Tushar Deshpande bowls a half volley to Marcus Stoinis,1 run, gets forward and drives I to long-on for one. |
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End of Over 18 (2 runs) Lucknow XI 162/2 Nicholas Pooran 18/9 Matheesha Pathirana 4-0-29-1
Marcus Stoinis 1/3 |
17.6
1 Over 17.6: Single. Matheesha Pathirana to Nicholas Pooran, |
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17.5
0 Over 17.5: No runs. Matheesha Pathirana to Nicholas Pooran, |
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17.4
1 Over 17.4: Single. Matheesha Pathirana to Marcus Stoinis, |
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17.3
0 Over 17.3: No runs. Matheesha Pathirana to Marcus Stoinis, |
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17.2
0 Over 17.2: No runs. Matheesha Pathirana to Marcus Stoinis, |
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