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A brilliant fifty from Mitchell Marsh in the power play has set up a good start for LSG in the IPL 2026 game played against Royal Challengers Bengaluru at Lucknow.

Despite a slow start from his fellow opener, he put up a show, posting 20 ball fifty and continued to bat, setting up a stage for the side. Lucknow Super Giants had a disappointing campaign in the ongoing season, with two wins out of 9 games, and will be aiming for a win with a promising start in the ongoing match.

After being invited to bat, Mitchell Marsh and Arshin Kulkarni opened the innings while Bhuvneshwar Kumar opened the bowling attack.

The drizzle stopped the match, but did not last long as the game resumed after a few minutes.

With Arshin Kulkarni put a slow start, Mitchell Marsh went on to deal with fours and sixes as he put 20 ball fifty and continued to bat as he scored 58 runs in the powerplay.

Added with Arshin Kulkarni’s runs, Lucknow Super Giants posted 68 runs in the powerply. Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Josh Hazlewood bowled two overs each while Krunal Pandya and Rasik Salam deliveried one over each in the powerplay.

in the 9th over, Rain started to pour heavily as the game halted at Lucknow with LSG scoring 95 runs by the end of 9th over.

Lucknow Super Giants playing 11: Mitchell Marsh, Arshin Kulkarni, Nicholas Pooran, Aiden Markram, Rishabh Pant (c & wk), Akshat Raghuwanshi, Himmat Singh, Shahbaz Ahmed, Digvesh Singh Rathi, Mohammed Shami, Prince Yadav.

Royal Challengers Bengaluru playing 11: Jacob Bethell, Virat Kohli, Devdutt Padikkal, Rajat Patidar (c), Jitesh Sharma (wk), Romario Shepherd, Krunal Pandya, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Josh Hazlewood, Suyash Sharma, Rasikh Salam