Indian Premier League 2024 (22nd March-29th May)

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Game 54:

Teams:

Kolkata Knight Riders (Playing XI): Philip Salt(w), Sunil Narine, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Shreyas Iyer(c), Venkatesh Iyer, Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Ramandeep Singh, Mitchell Starc, Varun Chakaravarthy, Harshit Rana

Lucknow Super Giants (Playing XI): KL Rahul(w/c), Marcus Stoinis, Deepak Hooda, Nicholas Pooran, Ashton Turner, Ayush Badoni, Krunal Pandya, Ravi Bishnoi, Naveen-ul-Haq, Mohsin Khan, Yash Thakur



Lucknow Super Giants have won the toss and have opted to field

 

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Here are the Impact substitutes for both the teams:

Lucknow Super Giants Impact Subs: Arshin Kulkarni, Manimaran Siddharth, Krishnappa Gowtham, Yudhvir Singh, Devdutt Padikkal

Kolkata Knight Riders Impact Subs: Anukul Roy, Manish Pandey, Srikar Bharat, Sherfane Rutherford, Vaibhav Arora

 

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Last game in Lucknow for IPL 2024 season .

 

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61 and 68 metre square boundaries for todays game in Lucknow.

 

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Turner v Charavarthy and Narine will be interesting. He looked hopeless the other day against spin.

 

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Narine hits 3 sixes in the same over off Stoinis

 

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And we arent at the half way stage of this game and there is alot of dew at Lucknow .

 

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Dev goes over the line with a catch attempt. Narine moves onto 80 not out with 7 sixes.

 

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2 dropped catches in a row . Narine with a double life in consecutive balls.

 

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No 3rd life for Sunil Narine this time. He goes for 81 off 39.

 

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Andre Russell been promoted up the order to 4 in the KKR lineup. He has a licence to hit out.

 

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Russell goes bang for 6 off Krunal.

 

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90 metres if you dont mind on Sunday Night Prime time cricket with the world watching.

 

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200 Comes up for the 1st time on this ground at Lucknow.

 

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Ramandeep can whack em.

 

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KKR post 235 against Lucknow and Lucknow will need their biggest chase ever in IPL history tonight to chase this down.

 

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Game 55:

Here are the Impact substitutes for both the teams:

Sunrisers Hyderabad Impact Subs: Mayank Markande, Glenn Phillips, Sanvir Singh, Jaydev Unadkat, Umran Malik,

Mumbai Indians Impact Subs: Nehal Wadhera, Shams Mulani, Shivalik Sharma, Dewald Brevis, Romario Shepherd

Teams:

Sunrisers Hyderabad (Playing XI): Abhishek Sharma, Travis Head, Mayank Agarwal, Nitish Reddy, Heinrich Klaasen(w), Abdul Samad, Shahbaz Ahmed, Marco Jansen, Pat Cummins(c), Bhuvneshwar Kumar, T Natarajan

Mumbai Indians (Playing XI): Ishan Kishan(w), Rohit Sharma, Naman Dhir, Suryakumar Yadav, Tilak Varma, Hardik Pandya(c), Tim David, Anshul Kamboj, Piyush Chawla, Jasprit Bumrah, Nuwan Thushara

Cummins: Got Agarwal coming back to the side, will bat at three. Dew is a factor here, but we have been batting well. Got four games left, will probably need to win two of those. But we're not thinking that far ahead.

Hardik: We're going to bowl first. Wicket looks fresh. Might have something with the new ball, want to exploit that. Anshul Kambhoj makes his debut. It's all about playing for pride, play for the badge. And for fans who have been with us through thick and thin.

Mumbai Indians have won the toss and have opted to field

 

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With that wicket Bumrah is the new clubhouse leader with the Purple Cap.

 

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SRH fightback to post 173/9 with same late handy runs from Cummins.

Advantage Mumbai but that 10th wicket partnership from Sunrisers has given them something to defend.

 

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Cummins is a better bat than Marco Jansen for me.

 

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Game 56:

Delhi Capitals (Playing XI): Jake Fraser-McGurk, Abishek Porel, Shai Hope, Rishabh Pant(w/c), Tristan Stubbs, Gulbadin Naib, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Mukesh Kumar, Ishant Sharma, Khaleel Ahmed



Rajasthan Royals (Playing XI): Yashasvi Jaiswal, Sanju Samson(w/c), Riyan Parag, Donovan Ferreira, Rovman Powell, Shubham Dubey, Ravichandran Ashwin, Trent Boult, Avesh Khan, Sandeep Sharma, Yuzvendra Chahal


Rajasthan Royals have won the toss and have opted to field

 

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Howie made it all the way to India for the IPL. 1st I have heard of him this season .

 

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Generally think Howies Aussie humour appeals to the Indian audience.

 

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JFM sets another record:

 

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Not bad company.