LSG vs CSK IPL 2024 34th Match: Lucknow took the home ground by storm, defeated Chennai by eight wickets!

The 34th match of the Indian Premier League 2024 was played between Lucknow Super Giants and Chennai Super Kings on Friday (19 March 2024) at the Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Cricket Stadium in Lucknow. Wicket keeper batsman KL Rahul played the responsibility of leadership on behalf of Lucknow Super Giants. Whereas the burden of captaincy for Chennai Super Kings is on the shoulders of Ruturaj Gaikwad. The coin toss fell in the camp of Lucknow. In the end, victory came only to LSG camp. The team defeated CSK by 8 wickets in this match.

Scorecard

LSG    180/2(19)

CSK     176/6(20)

Match report

Captain KL Rahul and Quinton de Kock gave a great start to the Lucknow team chasing the target. There was a partnership of 135 runs in 15 overs between Rahul and De Kock. This partnership completely turned the match in favor of Lucknow. Rahul scored the maximum of 82 runs in 53 balls, which included 9 fours and three sixes. Whereas De Kock played an innings of 54 runs in 43 balls. De Kock hit 5 fours and one six in his innings. Nicholas Pooran remained unbeaten on 23 and Marcus Stoinis remained unbeaten on eight runs.

Earlier, after losing the toss and batting first, Chennai Super Kings scored 176 runs for six wickets. Ravindra Jadeja played an unbeaten inning of 57 runs for CSK.Jadeja hit five fours and one six in his innings of 40 balls. Ajinkya Rahane played a stormy inning of 36 runs and Moeen Ali played a stormy inning of 30 runs. Mahendra Singh Dhoni also scored unbeaten 28 runs on 9 balls. Dhoni hit three fours and two sixes in his innings.