made 65 as Lucknow Super Giants prevailed over Royal Challengers Bangalore
by one wicket in a last-ball thriller in the Indian Premier League in
Bangalore on Monday. Chasing 213, LSG rode on Pooran and Stoinis’
brilliance to eke out a memorable win.
Pooran recorded the season’s fastest fifty, reaching the landmark in
only 15 balls. Earlier, captain Faf Du Plessis, Virat Kohli and Glenn
Maxwell smashed blistering half-centuries as RCB posted an imposing 212 for
two after being sent into bat. While Du Plessis made an unbeaten 79 off 46
balls, Kohli took the centre stage initially with his 44-ball 61-run knock,
as the duo shared 96 runs for the opening wicket after being sent into bat.
LSG had a horrible start and lost Kyle Mayers to Mohammed Siraj in the
third delivery of the opening over. RCB tasted their second success in the
fourth over when Deepak Hooda got a faint edge to Dinesh Karthik behind the
stumps off the bowling
To make matters worse for LSG, Parnell struck again a ball later when
Krunal Pandya edged one to Karthik, as the visitors slumped to 23 for three
in four overs.
Thereafter, Stoinis showed his batting prowess and took Harshal Patel and
Karn Sharma to the cleaners to keep LSG in the hunt. Stoinis continued his
onslaught and slammed Shahbaz Ahmed for two maximums to take LSG to 91 for
three after the halfway stage while bringing up his fifty in 26
balls.Stoinis then hammered Karn Sharma over the extra cover boundary, but
the bowler had the last laugh as the Australian miscued a shot to be caught
by Ahmed at deep point.
