IPL 2024, LSG vs GT Highlights: Thakur 5-fer leads Lucknow to hat-trick of wins

IPL Live Score 2024 LSG vs GT, Lucknow Super Giants vs Gujarat Titans: Three consecutive wins for LSG, all three of them powered by their bowling attack really. They are now third, only behind RR and KKR who are yet to lose a match. The Titans have now fallen to their second consecutive defeat and the hole left behind by the absent David Miller is clearly one they are struggling to fill, although one could argue that Williamson was unlucky to have not scored today because it was an utter freak of a catch from Bishnoi that caused his dismissal. They have a few things to ponder about and surely, at least someone in that management would be thinking why they haven't give Shahrukh Khan a go yet. That's it from Lucknow, see you tomorrow in Chennai where the Chennai Super Kings host the high-flying, extremely explosive Kolkata Knight Riders.

IPL Live Score 2024 LSG vs GT, Lucknow Super Giants vs Gujarat Titans: For a third consecutive game, it is a pacer who is player of the match for a Lucknow win. “Happy with this five-wicket haul and Man of the Match award. I had planned against Gill, I stuck to my plan, KL Rahul had advised me to do so and it paid off. Unfortunately Mayank Yadav got injured, so KL said it was my day and asked me to make the most of it. We are winning the first game against GT in IPL history, very happy with it. Really enjoyed Gill's wicket, the most memorable of all.”

IPL Live Score 2024 LSG vs GT, Lucknow Super Giants vs Gujarat Titans: KL Rahul is restrained in his happiness. “We'll take the win, I am not going to make too much out of it (on defending totals). For the young bowling unit we have, it helps when we bat first. They get an idea how the wicket is playing and they've also been adapting really well. It's a good record to have (defending all 160+ totals), but it's also where we've played. Having the home advantage helps. The bowlers have come through the ranks over the last couple of years. you have seen the same guys bowling in the last season as well., They have adjusted to their roles. Hopefully we can continue this. We knew that it wasn't as good as the wicket we played on (in the previous match here), also losing two wickets in the powerplay will set us back a bit. Unless someone carries on to get 70-80, it was tough to achieve that 170-180. We just wanted to bat and see how much we can get. That's the advantage you have when you are batting first. All three spinners have been key for us. Sid coming in this season has done really well, he plays a crucial part with the new ball, he's shown great temperament. His job is to restrict the batters. KP (Krunal Pandya) is very experienced, he's played IPL for so many seasons. Bishnoi has been around for so many years and keeps getting better. Feels good to get off the mark there (first win vs GT).”

IPL Live Score 2024 LSG vs GT, Lucknow Super Giants vs Gujarat Titans: Gill attributes the loss to just poor batting from his team. “It was a good wicket to bat on, a poor batting performance by us. We got a decent start, but we lost wickets in the middle and couldn't recover from that. Our bowlers were exceptional as they restricted them to 160-odd, just that our batters let us down. (On missing David Miller) Miller is a kind of a player who can change a game in a couple of overs, because I think this total was very gettable for us. (On his dismissal) I thought it was the last over of the powerplay and I just wanted to make the most of it, just that I missed that ball as I tried to play a bit too square. It was tremendous to watch our bowlers bowl, we were looking forward to restricting them around 160-165.”

IPL Live Score 2024 LSG vs GT, Lucknow Super Giants vs Gujarat Titans: IT'S A FIFER FOR YASH THAKUR! What a day he has had out there. The spinners did the strangling, with Krunal Pandya getting three wickets to show for it, but Thakur stuck to his guns gets to a milestone. Tewatia hit a six off the second ball over deep midwicket but then Thakur got him off the next, with Tewatia holing out at deep backward square leg. Noor Ahmad then got a streaky boundary next ball and then is caught behind. KL Rahul should be very happy with this win. It is the lowest total defended this year and this game has been won without the wizardry of Mayank Agarwal. In fact, that is the one worry for LSG in this match, Mayank had walked off with a side strain after bowling his first and only over.

IPL Live Score 2024 LSG vs GT, Lucknow Super Giants vs Gujarat Titans: Tewatia manages to find the gap between deep mid and deep backward square off the fifth ball of that over from Naveen but it amounts to precious little as far as the chase goes. GT need 44 to win off the last two overs.

IPL Live Score LSG vs GT: GT 120/8 in 18 overs

IPL Live Score 2024 LSG vs GT, Lucknow Super Giants vs Gujarat Titans: It gets from bad to worse for the Titans. They could fall to a giant defeat here. Four dot balls and then Rashd tries to muscle it down the ground, the ball lobs nicely into the hands of the fielder at mid-off. Yash Thakur ends up bowling a wicket maiden in the 15th with the next ball also being a dot ball.

IPL Live Score LSG vs GT: GT 93/7 in 15 overs

IPL Live Score 2024 LSG vs GT, Lucknow Super Giants vs Gujarat Titans: Judging by how this match has gone, this task seems impossible now for GT. Their current run rate is now 6.57, they are required to score at nearly twice that.

IPL Live Score LSG vs GT: GT 92/5 in 14 overs

IPL Live Score 2024 LSG vs GT, Lucknow Super Giants vs Gujarat Titans: Krunal Pandya have tied these GT batters up in knots. Darshan Nalkande tries to send the first ball of the over behind to the boundary, ends up giving catching practice to short fine leg.

Nalkande c Yash Thakur b Pandya 12 (11)

IPL Live Score 2024 LSG vs GT, Lucknow Super Giants vs Gujarat Titans: Krunal Pandya is having a ball out there. Just nine runs conceded in three overs and two wickets. Vijay Shankar is on seven off nine, Darshan Nalkande on four off six.

IPL Live Score LSG vs GT: GT 71/4 in 11 overs

IPL Live Score 2024 LSG vs GT, Lucknow Super Giants vs Gujarat Titans: The Titans are committing hara-kiri. They don't really need to hit out, need 103 to win off 66 and yet another batter falls trying to hit a spinner across the line. Pandya tosses the fifth ball of the ninth on a length outside off, Sharath tries to sweep it over deep square leg, can't get the timing right as the ball holds on the surface a bit, top edge and the down the the throat of Badoni.

Sharath c Badoni b Pandya 2 (5)

IPL Live Score LSG vs GT: GT 61/4 in 8.5 overs

IPL Live Score 2024 LSG vs GT, Lucknow Super Giants vs Gujarat Titans: It's all going pear-shaped now for GT, they were in a good position at the end of the powerplay but now suddenly they have lost two more wickets and their score isn't really going anywhere.

Sudharsan c Ravi Bishnoi b Pandya 31 (23)

IPL Live Score LSG vs GT: GT 58/3 in 8.1 overs

IPL Live Score 2024 LSG vs GT, Lucknow Super Giants vs Gujarat Titans: A candidate for catch of the season right there. Ravi Bishnoi dives to his right in his follow through and takes a one-handed scorcher. Bishnoi tosses up the second delivery of the eighth, Williamson tries to punch it past the bowler. It is in the air and Bishnoi leaps up to his right takes the ball with his outstretched right hand above his head while in the air and takes a stunner for the ages. Wow, that is the kind of catch that can win you tournaments.

Williamson c & b Ravi Bishnoi 1 (5)

IPL Live Score LSG vs GT: GT 56/2 in 7.2 overs

IPL Live Score 2024 LSG vs GT, Lucknow Super Giants vs Gujarat Titans: Yash Thakur with the breakthrough for GT. Full and fast angling in to Gill. It is that movement which seems to have done in the GT captain and his stumps are a mess. Kane Wiliamson walks in as impact substitute and Krunal Pandya to bowl the seventh.

IPL Live Score LSG vs GT: GT 54/1 in 6 overs

IPL Live Score 2024 LSG vs GT, Lucknow Super Giants vs Gujarat Titans: Just 12 runs off the fifth over which is a wonder. For Siddharth, despite being a spinner, overstepped three times in it. That meant three free-hit deliveries and yet, not a single boundary in that over. In fact Sudharsan holed out at deep midwicket off the last ball, which was a free hit and the batters could take just a single. Sudharsan is on 27 off 16, Gill is 14 off 17. IPL Live Score LSG vs GT: GT 47/0 in five overs

IPL Live Score 2024 LSG vs GT, Lucknow Super Giants vs Gujarat Titans: Well, well, Gill and Sudharsan get boundaries off Yadav. What was all that commotion about this guy being unplayable, they seem to say with their bats. Yadav sends a slow one in his dictionary first up at 140.9kph, Sudharsan meets it with the most exquisite of on-drives and the ball goes unchallenged to the boundary. A couple of short ones after that which are dot balls and then Sudharsan whips the fourth ball through midwicket for another boundary. A single after that and then Gill hits Yadav over backward point for a four. Gill is 12 off 13, Sudharsan on 21 off 11. Yadav had conceded 14 runs in four overs last match, today he has conceded 13 in his first. Such is cricket.

IPL Live Score LSG vs GT: GT 35/0 in 4 overs

IPL Live Score 2024 LSG vs GT, Lucknow Super Giants vs Gujarat Titans: Now then, strap on your seat belts and if you are the batter, tighten your protective gear. Mayank Yadav has been handed the ball for the fourth over. Gill on 8 off 12, Sudharsan has scored 12 in six. 

IPL Live Score LSG vs GT: GT 22/0 in 3 overs

IPL Live Score 2024 LSG vs GT, Lucknow Super Giants vs Gujarat Titans: Two fours in that over, one rather lucky one for Sudharsan, the other is one for the picture books. Naveen-ul-Haq bowling the second over, Sudharsan edges the fourth ball and it goes through the vacant slip area to the boundary. Two runs off the next ball and Sudharsan sends the last ball back the direction it came from along the ground. He is on 11 off five, Gill is on five off seven.

IPL Live Score LSG vs GT: GT 18/0 in 2 overs

IPL Live Score 2024 LSG vs GT, Lucknow Super Giants vs Gujarat Titans: Siddharth, by the way, has come in as an Impact substitute for Marcus Stoinis. Shubman Gill is on two off four, Sudharsan on one off two.

IPL Live Score LSG vs GT: GT 5/0 in 1 over

IPL Live Score 2024 LSG vs GT, Lucknow Super Giants vs Gujarat Titans: Sai Sudharsan and Shubman Gill open for the Titans, M Siddharth to bowl the first over for LSG. Here we go then!

IPL Live Score 2024 LSG vs GT, Lucknow Super Giants vs Gujarat Titans: Well it wasn't the big over they were looking for. Johnson nails a yorker first ball and Pooran just about digs it out. The second is dig into middle leg and Pooran smashes that so high over deep backward square leg that it surely disturbed a cloud or two way above the city. But that was the only boundary, Pooran can't get anything off the next two balls and then singles off the last two. LSG will now depend quite heavily on their bowling attack, particularly Mayank Yadav, to keep GT from running away with this.

IPL Live Score 2024 LSG vs GT, Lucknow Super Giants vs Gujarat Titans: Make no mistake, LSG need a HUUUUGE one here. They have just about gone beyond 150, Nicholas Pooran is on strike and Spencer Johnson to bowl the last.

IPL Live Score LSG vs GT: LSG 155/5 in 19 overs

IPL Live Score 2024 LSG vs GT, Lucknow Super Giants vs Gujarat Titans: Rashid bowling the 19th and his first delivery is a googly at length on middle and leg. Badoni goes for a slog sweep, doesn't get enough distance on it and holes out at deep midwicket.

Badoni c Yadav b Rashid Khan 20 (11)

IPL Live Score LSG vs GT: LSG 143/5 in 18.1 overs