IPL 2022, DC vs LSG Highlights: Lucknow Super Giants beat Delhi Capitals by six runs

He had hit an exquisite shot straight down the ground off the previous ball which was pitched up. This one was short of a length and Shaw miscues a pull. It goes straight down the throat of midwicket. 

Shaw c Gowtham b Chameera 5 (7), DC 5/1 in 1.2 overs

Mohsin Khan bowled the first over for LSG with Prithvi Shaw taking strike and David Warner at the other end. Shaw got off the mark with a single off the fifth ball of the over and he will be back on strike for the second. 

"I'm enjoying batting at 3, I play up the order in domestic cricket too. I'm used to the heat, having played in these conditions all my life. This is a good pitch, but the slower balls are gripping. We didn't speak about any target, but the intent for every ball was the same. This is a very good total on this pitch, but we'll need to keep taking wickets at regular intervals."

An inch perfect yorker to end the innings from Mustafizur. That one six from Stoinis makes this a 15-run over and yet, one could say this remains a good recovery from DC. This is a big total to chase though, and DC will need their in-form openers to take them as far as possible in this. 

Stoinis sends Mustafizur back over his head into the stands past long on. That was the fourt ball of the over and that takes LSG to 193/3. The 200 is still on, as it turns out. 

LSG are 180/3. Mustafizur has the ball in his hands and Krunal Pandya is on strike. This has been a good recovery from DC, even though there is a lot on the board. 

And that is a brilliant catch by Lalit Yadav. He times the catch brilliantly as Rahul is forced to try and clear the long boundary by Thakur. That is such an important wicket, it was possibly the first chance that Rahul offered DC in this match. 

KL Rahul c Lalit b Thakur 77 (51); LSG 176/3 off 18.4 overs

Rahul throws his bat at a full delivery outside off. Rahul opens the face of the bat at the last moment to get that ball behind and he ends up hitting it so well that it has gone for another six. LSG 176/2, Rahul is on 77 off 50. 

The last three have been fairly good overs for DC, they have done well to keep these two down. Stoinis especially has scored just 9 runs in 13 balls while Rahul is on 70 off 48. 

Yorker from Mustafizur, Rahul reverse scoops it just to the left of short third man. Almost a switch hit. What a shot that is, he moves to 70 off 48. 

Lalit Yadav does not drop those. In fact, not too many fielders would have dropped that as he came running in and reached there in time to let the ball come into his body. But it pops right out of his hands. Lalit had earlier dropped a catch off his own bowling. 

He had just taken a new glove, KL Rahul, and with it, he picks up this ball that is pitched outside off and sends it flying over the boundary. 

Marcus Stoinis gets off the mark with a four off the very first ball that he faced. LSG can really accelarate here with Stoinis in the middle and Krunal Pandya and Jason Holder still in the shed. KL Rahul will also certainly be looking to shift gears. For now the two players have to deal with Kuldeep Yadav. 

Hooda hits a full delivery straight back into the hands of the bowler Shardul Thakur's hands. The partnership ends at 95 off 61 balls. 

Hooda c & b Thakur 52 (34), LSG 137/2 in 14.3 overs

A slightly tight single to get there, unlike Rahul, who just ran an easy one to get there. Umpire sends the run out decision upstairs but the replay shows that Hooda had even crossed the stumps by the time bails had come off. 

Yet another half century for Rahul, can he convert this into het another century? He has hardly given the DC bowlers anything today, no half chances, no dropped catches. Hooda, meanwhile, is two runs away from his own half century. 

The run rate is 9.75. Both players going big guns and it has been an LSG show so far. At this rate LSG are projected to reach 194 and even a slight increase in the run rate takes them beyond 200. 

Half volley on middle stump from Sakariya and Hooda smacks it inside out through covers. Runs are coming at both ends in this partnership and LSG can target a real big score now. 

Hooda takes LSG into three digits with a maximum off Axar. Gets out of his crease quickly, whips it over long-on. 

What a way to bring the 50-run partnership. Rahul smashes Kuldeep wit the turn over long-on and the stand is now worth 51 runs in 33 balls. 

LSG are quietly maintaining a run rate of nearly 9 an over. The stand between Hooda and Rahul is now into the 40s as well. 

An eventful first six overs in which Pant used five bowlers. The heat at the Wankhede may have played a role in this decision. 

Lovely shot from Hooda, who had got a lucky four just like De Kock off the very first ball he faced in the innings off Thakur. This one is off Mustafizur as Hooda just guides a length ball going away from him through point. 

De Kock skies it, bakll comes off the bottom of the bat. The ball went high up under the sky and Lalit does well to keep his eye on it in the sun and and take the catch. 

De Kock c Lalit b Thakur 23 (13), LSG 42/1 off 4.2 overs

Two fours come in the over and a difficult one-handed chance for Lalit. A dissapointing one for DC after Axar Patel gave just three runs in the third.