What a great last ball finish ! IPL -2023 is going on with last ball finishes. Yet again in a thriller, nail biting finish Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) beat Royal Challengers Bangalore(RCB). In a high voltage drama LSG beat RCB by one wicket on last ball of the match, played at M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru yesterday. Nicholas Pooran was declared Player of the Match.
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Lucknow Super Giants won the toss and opt to bowl. RCB batting first scored 212 runs for 2 wickets in 20 overs with sparkling fifties from Virat Kohli (61), Glan Maxwell (59) and off course, unbeaten 79 from 46 balls by du Plesis.
While chasing victory target of 213 runs, LSG suffered big blows initially by losing 3 wickets at the score of just 23 runs on the board. But, Marcus Stoinis tried to move forward to the target hit 65 of 30 runs before getting catch out by Shahbaz in the form of 4th wicket at the score of 99 in 10.4 overs. K L Rahul could not perform well yesterday and got out at the score of 105 with his 18 runs in 20 balls. But, it was the day of Nicholas Pooran yesterday, as he fueled the hopes of victory with 62 runs in just 19 balls (4 boundaries,7 sixers) before getting out at the score of 189. In the last over LSG lost 2 wickets but achieved the target. The score was 213 for 9.
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