M Stoinis played an outstanding innings of 72 runs from 40 balls (Image Credit:- Twitter)

Lucknow Super Giants beat Punjab Kings by huge margin of 56 runs. Put into bat LSG made second highest score in IPL by scoring 257/5 in 20 overs and bowled out Punjab Kings for 201 in 19.5 overs. M Stoinis named Player of the Match for his outstanding knock of 72 runs from 40 balls and 1/21 in 1.5 overs.

Opener Kyle Mayers (54 runs from 24 balls) gives LSG a good start with the bat. Ayush Badoni (43 runs from 24 balls) , M Stoinis (72 runs from 40 balls) and Nicholas Pooran (45 runs from 19 balls) helps them to score 257/5.

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M Stoinis build two big partnership in the innings with A Badoni and N Pooran for the third and fourth wicket. He scored 89 runs from just 47 balls with A Badoni and 76 runs from 30 balls with N Pooran. LSG scored 73 runs in the final 5 overs of the innings.

Except Rahul Chahar (0/29 in 4 overs) all other bowlers went for plenty of runs in their spell. Kasigo Rabada (2/52 in 4 overs) , Liam Livingstone (1/19 in 1 over) , Sam Curran (1/38 in 3 overs) and Arshdeep Singh (1/54 in 4 overs) are the wicket takers for Punjab.

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Punjab Kings lost their captain S Dhawan 1(2) who came back to the side and Prabhsimran Singh (9 runs 13 runs) cheaply chasing stiff target of 258. Atharva Taide (66 runs from 36 balls) and Sikandar Raza (36 runs from 22 balls put together 78 runs from just 47 balls for the third wicket.

Liam Livingstone (23 runs from 14 balls) , Sam Curran (21 runs from 11 balls) and Jithesh Sharma (24 runs from 10 balls) are the other main scorers for Punjab. They scored 201 runs but still lost the match by 56 runs.

Yash Thakur (Image Credit:- Twitter)

Yash Thakur (4/37 in 3.5 overs) , Naveen ul Haq (3/30 in 4 overs) , Ravi Bishnoi (2/41 in 4 overs) and M Stoinis (1/21 in 1.5 overs) are the wicket takers for Lucknow.

Impact Player (LSG):- Amit Mishra in for Kyle Mayers

Impact Player (PBKS):- Prabhsimran Singh in for Gurnoor Brar

Player of the Match:- M Stoinis (72 runs from 40 balls and 1/21)

Next Match (29/04/2023):- Kolkata Knight Riders vs Gujarat Titans (03:30 PM , IST)