IPL 2024 LSG vs PBKS: Lucknow beats Punjab by 21 runs in 11th match of tournament

The 11th league match of IPL 2024 tournament took place on Saturday between the Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) and the Punjab Kings (PBKS). In yesterday’s LSG vs PBKS Lucknow won against Punjab by 21 runs. The match took place on Saturday at Ekana Cricket Stadium in Lucknow.

After yesterday’s LSG vs PBKS match, the KL Rahul led Lucknow clinched their first victory of the tournament. On the other hand, the Shikhar Dhawan led team Lucknow has so far won only one of three matches played.

Chasing the daunting target of 200 to win, Punjab Kings got off to a cracking start as Dhawan and Jonny Bairstow added 102 runs for the first wicket. They scored 61 runs in the powerplay overs. Bairstow, known for his attack intent took the charge of scoring quick runs as Dhawan took the role of anchoring the inning.

The first two overs saw only 16 runs on the board but soon Dhawan changed his gear and smashed 16 runs off Manimaran Siddharth in his first over. Dhawan then scored 14 runs in Mohsin Khan’s second over and soon reached his half-century with a six in Ravi Bishnoi’s over.

Bairstow on the other hand took Krunal Pandya under his radar and hammered back-to-back sixes in the ninth over of the inning. Punjab reached 98 for none after the end of ten overs with Dhawan on 56 and Bairstow on 42.

Things ended for Punjab as they were left with 41 needed in the last over. Naveen bowling the last over gave 17 runs and LSG won their first match of this season by 21 runs.

PBKS squad against LSG

Shikhar Dhawan (c), Matthew Short, Prabhsimran Singh, Jitesh Sharma, Sikandar Raza. Rishi Dhawan, Liam Livingstone, Atharva Taide, Arshdeep Singh, Nathan Ellis, Sam Curran, Kagiso Rabada, Harpreet Brar. Rahul Chahar, Harpreet Bhatia, Vidwath Kaverappa, Shivam Singh, Harshal Patel. Chris Woakes, Ashutosh Sharma, Vishwanath Pratap Singh, Shashank Singh, Tanay Thyagarajann, Prince Choudhary, Rilee Rossouw.

LSG squad against PBKS

KL Rahul (c), Quinton de Kock, Nicholas Pooran, Ayush Badoni, Kyle Mayers, Marcus Stoinis. Deepak Hooda, Devdutt Padikkal, Ravi Bishnoi, Naveen-ul-Haq, Krunal Pandya, Yudhvir Singh, Prerak Mankad, Yash Thakur, Amit Mishra, Mark Wood, Mayank Yadav, Mohsin Khan, K. Gowtham, Shivam Mavi, Arshin Kulkarni. M. Siddharth, Ashton Turner, David Willey, Mohd. Arshad Khan.

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(With inputs from IANS)