IPL 2023: CSK Vs LSG: Match Stopped Due To Rain; Each Team Received One Point
Lucknow, 3rd May 2023: The 45th match of the season played at Lucknow’s Bharat Ratna Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ikana Stadium, ended in a scoreless draw due to rain. Chennai Super Kings (CSK), who bowled first before the onset of rain, reduced Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) to 125 for seven wickets in 19.2 overs.
Lucknow’s Ayush Badoni scored an unbeaten 59 off 33 balls. Moeen Ali, Tikshana, and Pathirana took two wickets each from Chennai.
But now the match was canceled due to rain and both teams got one point each. Due to this, there is no change in the points table. If Lucknow had won the match, they would have overtaken Gujarat to the top spot in the points table. If Chennai had won the match, Lucknow would have dropped to third place and Chennai would have had 12 points, the same as Gujarat.
Chennai Super Kings won the toss and decided to bowl. Dhoni’s decision was justified by Chennai’s spinners who reduced half of Lucknow’s team to 50 runs. Moeen Ali and Tikshana gave Lucknow a shock in the power play and after the power play, Ravindra Jadeja started to disrupt the Lucknow batting. Therefore, Lucknow’s condition became 52 runs for five wickets in 12 overs.
Nicholas Pooran and Ayush Badoni put together a partnership for the sixth wicket to revive Lucknow’s innings after half of Lucknow’s team was bowled out for 44 runs. These two took this partnership to a half-century and took the team close to a hundred.
Nicholas Pooran and Ayush Badoni put on a 48-ball 59-run partnership for the sixth wicket to take the team to 103 runs. In the 18th over, Mathisha Pathirana broke the pair by dismissing Nicholas Pooran for 20 runs. But after this, Ayush Badoni took control of the innings in his hands and completed his half-century by hitting the slog over. Along with this, Lucknow also reached 125 runs, meanwhile, the rain started.
