IPL 2024 LSG vs CSK Highlights: Lucknow beat Chennai by eight wickets

IPL 2024 LSG vs CSK Live Score, Lucknow Super Giants vs Chennai Super Kings: “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.”

IPL 2024 LSG vs CSK Live Score, Lucknow Super Giants vs Chennai Super Kings: “We finished well with the bat, couldn't have asked more with 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.”

IPL 2024 LSG vs CSK Live Score, Lucknow Super Giants vs Chennai Super Kings: A no ball from Deshpande finally levels the scores, there is some more delay as CSK unsuccesfully challenge the call. They are already 15 minutes behind the over rate and they review a no ball call for a delivery that was almost a beamer. The free hit delivery is back of a length angling away from Pooran, the batter sends that over the cover fielder and finishes the chase. Pooran finishes unbeaten on 23 off 12, Marcus Stoinis on eight off seven.

IPL 2024 LSG vs CSK Live Score, Lucknow Super Giants vs Chennai Super Kings: LSG are taking their time with this, just as CSK have with their over rate. They are nearly a powerplay behind at the moment, a full four overs. It means Deshpande will bowl the 19th over to Pooran with one less fielder outside the ring. Pooran is on 18 off nine. Stoinis on one off three. 

LSG vs CSK IPL Live Score: LSG 165/2 in 18 overs

IPL 2024 LSG vs CSK Live Score, Lucknow Super Giants vs Chennai Super Kings: KL Rahul's epic ends and it needed something as special as that. Pathirana with a length ball for the first ball of the 18th, Rahul stays deep and cuts it. Jadeja flies to his left at backward point and plucks it out of thin air. The third umpire then takes hours to see if it was a fair catch, thus giving us a chance to admire it from a number of different angles.

Rahul c Jadeja b Pathirana 82 (53)

LSG vs CSK IPL Live Score: LSG 161/2 in 17.1 overs

 IPL 2024 LSG vs CSK Live Score, Lucknow Super Giants vs Chennai Super Kings: Pathirana brought back as soon as Pooran walks in, he has dismissed the West Indian three times in the last ten balls. Three singles off the first three balls and then Pooran sends the fourth ball over long on and all the way out of the ground!

LSG vs CSK IPL Live Score: LSG 146/1 in 16 overs

IPL 2024 LSG vs CSK Live Score, Lucknow Super Giants vs Chennai Super Kings: Mustafizur Rahman gets the breakthrough but it could be a case of too little too late already. Back of a length from the Fizz for the last ball of the 15th, De Kock tries to ramp it but ends up getting a faint edge to Dhoni. The opening stand ends on 134. LSG now bring in Nicholas Pooran, they want to finish this off quickly.

de Kock c Dhoni b Mustafizur Rahman 54 (43)

LSG vs CSK IPL Live Score: LSG 134/1 in 15 overs

IPL 2024 LSG vs CSK Live Score, Lucknow Super Giants vs Chennai Super Kings: A single off the first ball of the 15th from Mustafizur does the job for QDK. He has got there in 41 balls.

IPL 2024 LSG vs CSK Live Score, Lucknow Super Giants vs Chennai Super Kings: Well these two have slowed down somewhat in the last two overs but CSK would know that there is absolutely no danger in front of LSG at the moment unless they get some wickets in a clump from here on out. Rahul is on 66 off 44, De Kock on 49 off 50. LSG need 56 to win from 36.

LSG vs CSK IPL Live Score: LSG 121/0 in 14 overs

IPL 2024 LSG vs CSK Live Score, Lucknow Super Giants vs Chennai Super Kings: 14 runs in the 11th over and this is starting to slip out of CSK's hands. Jadeja bowling the 11th, De Kock with a four off the second ball and then Rahul hits two back to back fours off the fourth and fifth balls. He goes past his half-century with the first boundary, his 35th in the IPL.

LSG vs CSK IPL Live Score: LSG 103/0 in 11 overs

IPL 2024 LSG vs CSK Live Score, Lucknow Super Giants vs Chennai Super Kings: Ravindra Jadeja bowling the ninth over. His first ball is met with a gorgous lofted straight drive by De Kock and sent down the ground for a four. Then De Kock skies an attemped slog. It goes high and Pathirana tries to settle under it at short third man. He makes a mess of it. The batters run a single off that ball and then four more singles. 

LSG vs CSK IPL Live Score: LSG 84/0 in 9 overs

IPL 2024 LSG vs CSK Live Score, Lucknow Super Giants vs Chennai Super Kings: KL Rahul has been the aggressor today and he is doing a very good job at keeping LSG well ahead of the required rate. He has also done well to cover up for his partner's inability to connect thus far, although one might argue that De Kock is 'anchoring' the partnership. De Kock is on 27 off 23, Rahul on 44 off 25. 

LSG vs CSK IPL Live Score: LSG 75/0 in 8 overs

IPL 2024 LSG vs CSK Live Score, Lucknow Super Giants vs Chennai Super Kings: 54 runs for LSG but unlike CSK, they have managed to keep their wickets intact. Rahul is 34 off 20, De Kock has dragged his feet to 18 off 16. LSG are currently going above their required run rate, they need 123 to win from 84 balls.

LSG vs CSK IPL Live Score: LSG 54/0 in 6 overs

IPL 2024 LSG vs CSK Live Score, Lucknow Super Giants vs Chennai Super Kings: Tushar Deshpande with a change of ends and he returns for the fifth over. His first ball is whipped away by Rahul for a four. Then a leg bye off the fourth ball and then Deshpande goes within centimetres of hitting De Kock's leg stump with the fifth ball. De Kock sends the last ball of the over sailing over deep square leg.

LSG vs CSK IPL Live Score: LSG 43/0 in 5 overs

IPL 2024 LSG vs CSK Live Score, Lucknow Super Giants vs Chennai Super Kings: Chahar returns for the third over, bowls a dolly to Rahul outside off and the LSG captain smashes it through midwicket for a four. Two singles off the third and fourth balls after which Rahul clubs the fifth ball over midwicket for a six. Rahul is on 13 off eight, De Kock on 10 off 10. 

LSG vs CSK IPL Live Score: LSG 24/0 in 3 overs

IPL 2024 LSG vs CSK Live Score, Lucknow Super Giants vs Chennai Super Kings: Against the shorter delivery from Tushar Deshpande in the final ball of the second over, QdK looks to go big over the off side, but gets it off the toe-end of the bat. The third man was up and deep point was too far behind as the ball landed in no man's land. 

LSG 12/0 in 2 overs vs CSK (176/6)

IPL 2024 LSG vs CSK Live Score, Lucknow Super Giants vs Chennai Super Kings: LSG openers get off to watchful start against Chahar as the CSK fast bowler concedes only three singles in the opening over. 

LSG 3/0 in 1 over vs CSK (176/6)

IPL 2024 LSG vs CSK Live Score, Lucknow Super Giants vs Chennai Super Kings: Quinton de Kock takes strike. KL Rahul is at the other end. Deepak Chahar kick off the attack for Chennai. 

IPL 2024 LSG vs CSK Live Score, Lucknow Super Giants vs Chennai Super Kings: Dhoni finishes off with 28 runs in nine balls. He has done it again. Dhoni runs two like he never aged in the last 15 years off the second last ball. Then Thakur sends in a yorker-length delivery outside off, Dhoni drills it behind point for a four. He has finished with a strike rate of 311.11 and is yet to be dismissed this year. CSK will now be hoping that dew doesn't settle in. If that happens, Dhoni has taken them to a formidable total out of nowhere. Jadeja at the other end finishes on 57 off 40 balls. He ground out a half-century and yet such was the belligerence with which Dhoni played yet again today that Jadeja's innings might end up being nothing more than a footnote.

IPL 2024 LSG vs CSK Live Score, Lucknow Super Giants vs Chennai Super Kings: Yash Thakur bowling the last over. Five fielders in the circle because of LSG's utterly horrendous over rate. Jadeja takes three off the first two balls and Dhoni is on strike. The third is muscled by Dhoni over wide long-on and the fourth is edged between point and short third for a four. This crowd is going crazy!

IPL 2024 LSG vs CSK Live Score, Lucknow Super Giants vs Chennai Super Kings: A never-ending 19th over there from Mohsin Khan. He starts off with two wides to Dhoni. The second wasn't given a wide but Dhoni reviewed that. It was just about outside the wide line outside off and yet, it is quite strangely given as wide. Then Dhoni smashes the legal first ball over cover and it goes like a bullet to the boundary. Dhoni then walks across the stumps and sends the second delivery over the wicketkeeper's head. A single off the next ball and then a wide, which is reviewed by LSG unsucesfully. Then a single and then another wide to Dhoni and finally a dot ball. MS Dhoni on 12 off five, Jadeja on 54 off 38.

LSG vs CSK IPL Live Score: CSK 157/6 in 19 overs

IPL 2024 LSG vs CSK Live Score, Lucknow Super Giants vs Chennai Super Kings: Moeen Ali accelerates and goes. It is is exactly what CSK needed at this stage. Ravi Bishnoi's second delivery of the 18th is tossed up nicely into Moeen's hitting arc and the all-rounder smashes it over deep square leg. The second delivery also goes the same way. The third is flat-batted over long-off. Then Moeen hits the fourth delivery straight to deep midwicket and that leads to a tidal wave of noise from the crowd. Because it means MS Dhoni is walking in and he will be there for a full two overs as well.

Moeen Ali c Badoni b Ravi Bishnoi 30 (20)

LSG vs CSK IPL Live Score: CSK 141/6 in 17.5 overs

IPL 2024 LSG vs CSK Live Score, Lucknow Super Giants vs Chennai Super Kings: Mohsin returns for the 17th over, Jadeja makes room to go downtown and the bowler obliges by bowling in his arc. But Jadeja had some luck going his way as Hooda makes a meal of taking a catch at long-on, he tips it over the boundary. Jadeja brings out the sword-celebration, his fifty has come in 34 balls. Just two more runs in that over and Jadeja is on 53 off 36, Moeen on 12 off 15. Jadeja had ended CSK's drought of boundaries in the previous over with a four. 

LSG vs CSK IPL Live Score: CSK 123/5 in 17 overs

IPL 2024 LSG vs CSK Live Score, Lucknow Super Giants vs Chennai Super Kings: The last boundary came 32 balls ago, more than five overs, and that was a four as well. Moeen is on seven off 10, Jadeja on 40 off 29. Jadeja has done well to keep his strike rate in 140s despite hardly being able to find a boundary.

LSG vs CSK IPL Live Score: CSK 105/5 in 15 overs

IPL 2024 LSG vs CSK Live Score, Lucknow Super Giants vs Chennai Super Kings: CSK's run rate has now come down to exactly 7. For now, this is not going well for them at all but they do have three players who can go big in the death overs. The fans of course can't wait for another wicket to fall so that they can see their hero bat. Jadeja is on 36 off 26, Moeen on four off seven.

LSG vs CSK IPL Live Score: CSK 98/5 in 14 overs