Mitchell Marsh and Nicholas Pooran, two shining specks for Lucknow Super Giants in its in any other case boring IPL 2025 marketing campaign, did the majority of the scoring because the already eradicated facet did the double on Gujarat Titans by 33 runs on Thursday (May 22, 2025) at Ahmedabad.
While the Australian all-rounder grew to become the primary abroad participant to attain a hundred this season off 56 balls, Pooran contributed with a fifty of his personal.
Titans, opting to bowl, did properly to comprise Marsh and Aiden Markram to 53 contained in the PowerPlay on the Narendra Modi Stadium, the place the common successful rating this season has been 220. But Shubman Gill and Co. misplaced their grip thereafter.
The physio had a extra expansive warmth map than most of GT’s different gamers within the first six overs as he tended to accidents sustained by Arshad Khan, who slipped twice close to the touchdown space, whereas Mohammed Siraj and Kagiso Rabada, each have been hit on the hand of their follow-through.
The first wicket got here in opposition to the run of play within the tenth over as Markram holed out to M. Shahrukh Khan at long-off.
Rashid Khan’s struggles with size have been laid naked as soon as once more within the twelfth over underneath the evident lights of the most important cricket stadium on this planet. The massacre was so graphic that a last-ball single from Marsh virtually appeared like a mercy name within the 25-run over.
When Marsh finally fell within the nineteenth over, the injury had already been accomplished.
In reply, the Titans openers blunted the new-ball to good impact after B. Sai Sudharsan staged a nice escape within the second over when LSG didn’t assessment after the southpaw was hit on the pad. However, the free go lasted solely three extra overs because the Orange Cap holder chipped a slower supply from Will O’Rourke to Markram at mid-off.
In the tenth over, a largely untested Titans center order was left uncovered after Akash Singh noticed Buttler’s bails mild up shortly after Gill departed. This was the primary time not one of the Titans’ high three had survived till the fifteenth over.
While Sherfane Rutherford and Shahrukh’s partnership momentarily did present LSG the scares, it was by no means to be.
Published – May 23, 2025 12:09 am IST
