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Lucknow Super Giants vs Chennai Super Kings: In the 59th match of IPL 2026, Lucknow Super Giants defeated Chennai Super Kings with a spectacular victory. In this match, Lucknow Super Giants won by 7 wickets and achieved the fourth win of the season. At the same time, this defeat was very heavy for Chennai Super Kings, they have now lagged behind in the race for the playoffs. The bowling of Chennai Super Kings was a complete flop in this match.

CSK put 187 runs on the board

In this match played at Ekana Stadium in Lucknow, Rishabh Pant’s team won the toss and decided to bowl first. But Chennai had a bad start. Captain Ruturaj Gaikwad was out on the ball of Akash Singh after scoring 13 runs. Sanju Samson scored 20 runs but he also became the second victim of Akash Singh. Despite losing two wickets in the powerplay itself, CSK made a good comeback. Karthik Sharma, Dewald Brevis and Shivam Dubey batted aggressively, due to which CSK scored 187 runs losing 5 wickets in 20 overs. Karthik Sharma scored the highest 71 runs. At the same time, Dubey remained unbeaten after scoring 32 runs on 16 balls. Brevis also scored 25 runs.

For Lucknow, Akash Singh took maximum 3 wickets, who came to play for the first time in this season. Whereas, Mohammed Shami and Shahbaz Ahmed achieved 1 success each. Due to which Lucknow team was successful in stopping CSK on this score.

Mitchell Marsh-Josh English’s batting storm

Chasing the target of 188 runs, Lucknow’s opening pair Mitchell Marsh and Josh Inglis gave an aggressive start. The team scored fast runs in the initial overs and did not even lose wickets. Both players added 135 runs for the first wicket, which made the match one-sided. Mitchell Marsh scored 90 runs in 38 balls at a strike rate of 236.84, which included 9 fours and 7 sixes. At the same time, English contributed 36 runs. After this, Nicholas Puran scored unbeaten 32 runs in 17 balls, due to which Lucknow achieved the target in 16.4 overs at the loss of 3 wickets.

Considering the race for the playoffs, this is a big blow for Chennai Super Kings. Now he has only 2 matches left, which are going to be do or die. Currently he has 12 points in 12 matches and the net run rate has dropped to 0.027.