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The 15th match of IPL T24 was between Royal Challengers Bengaluru and Lucknow Super Giants and the match was organized at M.Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru. Royal Challengers Bengaluru won the toss and elected to bowl.
Lucknow Super Giants Innings:
Quinton de Kock and captain KL Rahul came to open for Lucknow Super Giants. Among them, Quinton de Kock started batting in a very aggressive manner. They put on a partnership of 53 runs for the first wicket. Glenn Maxwell broke this partnership in the 6th over. He dismissed KL Rahul. KL Rahul scored 20 runs off 14 balls and hit 2 sixes. At the end of 6 overs of power play, Lucknow Super Giants scored for 54 runs for 1 wicket.
After that, Devdutt Padikkal came to bat, but he did not last long. He was dismissed by Mohammed Siraj in the 9th over for just 6 runs. Marcus Stoinis came to bat at number 4. Quinton de Kock and Marcus Stoinis put on a partnership of 56 runs off 30 balls. Marcus Stoinis was dismissed by compatriot Glenn Maxwell in the 14th over. He scored 24 runs off 15 balls and he hit 1 four and 2 sixes.
After that, Quinton de Kock got out in the 17th over. He played brilliantly and he scored 81 runs in 56 balls which included 8 fours and 5 sixes. He was dismissed by Reece Topley. Lucknow Super Giants scored 33 runs in the last two overs, courtesy of Nicholas Pooran. He played a brilliant innings and remained unbeaten on 40 off 21 balls till the end. He hit 1 four and 5 sixes. Lucknow Super Giants scored 181 runs for 5 wickets at the end of 20 overs.
For Royal Challengers Bengaluru, Glenn Maxwell took 2 wickets, and Mohammed Siraj, Reece Topley, and Yash Dayal took 1 wicket each.
Royal Challengers Bengaluru Innings:
Virat Kohli and captain Faf du Plessis got off to a great start for Royal Challengers Bengaluru. After the first 4 overs, Royal Challengers Bengaluru scored 36 runs for no loss. But after that Royal Challengers Bengaluru lost their rhythm fell. Virat Kohli got out in the second ball of the 5th over. He was dismissed by Manimaran Siddharth. Faf du Plessis gets out in the next over. He was out from a direct throw of Devdutt Padikkal. Glenn Maxwell got out on Mayank Yadav’s ball for 0 runs in this over. At the end of 6 overs of powerplay, Royal Challengers Bengaluru scored 48 runs for 3 wickets.
The wickets continued to fall after this. Cameron Green got out in the 8th over. Rajat Patidar and wicketkeeper Anuj Rawat then put on a partnership of 36 runs and this partnership gave some stability to Royal Challengers Bengaluru. Marcus Stoinis dismissed Anuj Rawat in the 13th over. He scored 11 runs. Rajat Patidar was out in the 15th over. He was dismissed by Mayank Yadav. He scored 29 runs off 21 balls. He hit 2 fours and 2 sixes.
Royal Challengers Bengaluru needed 78 runs to win in the last 5 overs. Mahipal Lomror played well, and it looked like the match would be interesting when he was batting. But he got out on the 5th ball of the 18th over by Yash Thakur. He scored 33 runs off 13 balls with 3 fours and 3 sixes. After his dismissal, Royal Challengers Bengaluru’s chances of victory were dashed. Though Mohammed Siraj hit 2 consecutive sixes in the last two balls of the 19th over. 30 runs were required for victory in the last over. In the last over, Mohammed Siraj was dismissed by Naveen-ul-Haq and Royal Challengers Bengaluru’s innings ended at 153 runs in 19.4 overs.
For Lucknow Super Giants, Mayank Yadav took 3 wickets, Naveen-ul-Haq took 2 wickets, and Manimaran Siddharth, Marcus Stoinis, and Yash Thakur took 1 wicket each.
The summary of the scorecard of this match is given below.
Scorecard Summary:
| Lucknow Super Giants Innings (181/5 in 20 overs) | Royal Challengers Bengaluru Bowling |
| Quinton de Kock 81 (56) | Glenn Maxwell 23/2 (4 overs) |
| Nicholas Pooran 40* (21) | Yash Dayal 24/1 (4 overs) |
| Marcus Stoinis 24 (15) | Reece Topley Topley 39/1 (4 overs) |
| Royal Challengers Bengaluru Innings (153/10 in 19.4 overs) | Lucknow Super Giants Bowling |
| Mahipal Lomror 33 (13) | Mayank Yadav 14/3 (4 overs) |
| Rajat Patidar 29 (21) | Naveen-ul-Haq 25/2 (3.4 overs) |
| Virat Kohli 22 (16) | Manimaran Siddharth 21/1 (4 overs) |
Result:
Lucknow Super Giants won the match by 28 runs.
Player Of The Match:
Mayank Yadav was the player of the match.