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LSG vs RCB: An important match of IPL season 19 was played between Lucknow Super Giants and Royal Challengers Bangalore. The match was played in 19-19 overs due to rain interruption. Where RCB team won the toss and decided to bowl first. Batting first, Lucknow Super Giants team scored 209 runs at the loss of 3 wickets in 19 overs. In reply, RCB team scored 203 runs in 19 overs. Lucknow team won the match by 9 runs under Duckworth Lewis rule.

Lucknow Super Giants team made a big score

Lucknow Super Giants team, which came to bat first after losing the toss, got a very good start. Even though Arshin Kulkarni scored only 17 runs in 24 balls, from the other end Mitchell Marsh played an inning of 111 runs in 56 balls. During this, he hit nine fours and only 9 skyscraper sixes. Nicholas Puran, who came to bat at number 3, scored 38 runs in 23 balls. In the end, captain Rishabh Pant played an unbeaten inning of 32 runs in just 10 balls. Due to which, even after the match was stopped midway due to rain thrice, Lucknow Super Giants team scored 209 runs at the loss of 3 wickets in 19 overs. Josh Hazlewood, Krunal Pandya and Rasikh Salam Dar got 1 wicket each for Royal Challengers Bangalore.

Lucknow Super Giants finally got the victory

Due to the Duckworth-Lewis rule, the RCB team, which was chasing the target of 213 runs, got a very bad start. While Virat Kohli could not open the account, Jacob Bethel could add only 4 runs. After which Devdutt Padikkal scored 34 runs while captain Rajat Patidar made the team comeback by scoring 61 runs. After which Tim David strengthened his team by scoring 40 runs in 17 balls. Due to slow innings of Krunal Pandya’s 28 runs and Romario Shepherd’s 23 runs, the team could finally score only 203 runs in 19 overs and lost by 9 runs due to Duckworth Lewis rule. For Lucknow Super Giants, Prince Yadav took 3 wickets while Shahbaz Ahmed took 2 wickets.

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