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Cricket
Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) will face Chennai Super Kings (CSK) in Match 30 of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025 at the BRSABV Ekana Stadium on Monday, 14 April. Catch the live score and updates of the match right here
A decent final over from Matheesha Pathirana, conceding four runs from wides and a lucky, top-edge boundary from Shardul Thakur. It’s the Sri Lankan who has the last laugh, dismissing Thakur in the final ball, getting his second wicket in the game.
LSG cross the 160-run mark, but this is still their lowest total in IPL 2025. A good chase awaits.
LSG: 166/7 (20)
Pant’s innings comes to an end, attempting to hit a big one off a full delivery but getting a top edge from the one handed shot. Catching practice for MS Dhoni. A fine innings from the LSG skipper in tough conditions.
Rishabh Pant c Dhoni b Pathirana 63(49)
Abdul Samad, who hit a massive six in the final ball of the 19th over off Khaleel Ahmed, is sent back in the final over. Attempting to take a run from a wide ball, Dhoni collects the ball and throws it down towards the non-striker’s stump, hitting bull’s eye and sending back the big hitter, who was beginning to settle down.
Abdul Samad 20(11) run out Dhoni
After a tough start to his IPL 2025 campaign, Rishabh Pant reaches his half-century in 42 balls, hitting a one-handed six beyond deep square leg. A scrachy, grinding innings so far for the skipper, but those runs will be vita for LSG in the second innings.
LSG: 139/4 (18)
Lucknow’s run board is not ticking as quickly as skipper Rishabh Pant, who is out on the pitch, would like. Barring a six off Pathirana by Abdul Samad, the home side has not been able to hit the big shots, getting just 15 runs in the last three overs.
LSG: 121/4 (17)
Third time lucky for CSK, and Badoni got a bit over-confident, and tries to charge down the pitch way before the ball departed Jadeja’s hands. The wide delivery misses Badoni, and Dhoni has all the time in the world to take off the bails.
The young batter waits before leaving as LSG go upstairs to check if Dhoni’s gloves were completely behind the stumps while taking off the bails. No luck for Badoni this time, and he has to leave.
Ayush Badoni 22(17) st Dhoni b Jadeja
LSG: 107/4 (14)
The TV umpire is turning out to be a saviour for young Ayush Badoni. After a marginal review saved him in the previous over, the young batter tries to reverse sweep Jadeja but the ball hits him on the pad. Jadeja appeals and immediately gets a decision in his favour.
Pant goes upstairs, even though Badoni himself does not look convinced. UltraEdge shows the slighest of spikes whne the ball passes the gloves, and the decision is overturned, again.
A short and wide delivery from Matheesha Pathirana proves to be the downfall of Ayush Badoni, who tries to chop at it but ends up hitting it one-handed only as far as Vijay Shankar.
The young batter waits for a third-umpire check, as LSG claim it was the third bouncer from Pathirana. The TV umpire agrees that the ball was marginally above shoulder height, which means it’s a no ball, and Badoni gets another life.
LSG: 103/3 (13)
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Young Ayush Badoni is enjoying his time on the Ekana pitch. With Noor Ahmad bowling economically on one end, the LSG batter has looked to target Jadeja and Overton, hitting two massive sixes off the latter in the 12th over. The run rate is nearly eight now.
LSG: 95/3 (12)
Jadeja with the ultimate comeback! After a bottom edge gets a boundary for Rishabh Pant, Jadeja bowls a skidding delivery that completely fools Mitch Marsh. The batter swung and missed, and the ball smashed the off stump. LSG are three down.
Mitchell Marsh 30(25) b Jadeja
Dhoni opts to bring in spin in the eighth over, with Jadeja taking the ball. Pant and Marsh start strong against the all-rounders orthodox spin, hitting two boundaries.
Purple cap holder Noor Ahmad has a much better first over, conceding just five runs, dealing in just singles. Still, LSG’s run rate is 7.55 at the moment.
LSG: 68/2 (9)
After a disastrous start, losing two wickets in four overs, LSG are trying to improve their innings. Mitch Marsh has taken charge, hitting Khaleel Ahmed for a four and a six in the fifth over.
Then Rishabh Pant — who has found runs hard to come by this season — joined in the action against Anshul Kamboj, hitting a powerful shot towards the square leg side for four runs, following it up with a reverse scoop six against Jamie Overton.
LSG: 53/2 (7)
What a magnificent review from CSK! After an expensive over, conceding 11 runs, Anshul Kamboj dismisses danger-man Nicholas Pooran. A round-the-wicket delivery from the bowler hits the West Indian on the pads, but the bowler’s huge appeal fails to move the umpire.
MS Dhoni looks at Kamboj and decides to go upstairs, and UltraEdge shows a clear gap between ball and pad, and ball tracking shows the ball hitting the leg stump.
Nicholas Pooran 8(9) lbw b Kamboj
LSG: 23/2 (4)
An up-and-down start for Lucknow Super Giants in the first three overs. After the strong start in the first over was curtailed with Markram’s wicket, Anshul Kamboj gave away just one run in the second over.
Khaleel’s third over was decent, barring a six from Nicholas Pooran. The West Indian was not in control of his shot at all, but the top edge flies over the fine leg position.
LSG: 12/1 (3)
What a stunning catch from Rahul Tripathi! After hitting a boundary, Markram tries to hit the ball towards the leg side but gets a thick leading edge, and the ball flies up. Tripathi covers a lot of ground — almost 30 metres — and dives forward to send the South African back for six runs.
Aiden Markram 6(6) c Tripathi b Ahmed
Aiden Markram and Mitchell Marsh walk out on the Ekana Stadium pitch to open the batting for LSG, with Markram having the strike.
Khaleel Ahmed, who was wicketless against KKR, will start the bowling for CSK.
Here are the impact subs for tonight’s game:
Lucknow Super Giants: Ravi Bishnoi, Prince Yadav, Shahbaz Ahmed, Matthew Breetzke, Himmat Singh
Chennai Super Kings: Shivam Dube, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Ramakrishna Ghosh, Sam Curran, Deepak Hooda
Lucknow Super Giants: Aiden Markram, Mitchell Marsh, Nicholas Pooran, Ayush Badoni, Rishabh Pant (w & c), David Miller, Abdul Samad, Shardul Thakur, Avesh Khan, Akash Deep, Digvesh Singh Rathi
Chennai Super Kings: Shaik Rasheed, Rachin Ravindra, Rahul Tripathi, Vijay Shankar, Ravindra Jadeja, Jamie Overton, MS Dhoni (w & c), Anshul Kamboj, Noor Ahmad, Khaleel Ahmed, Matheesha Pathirana
CSK skipper MS Dhoni has won the toss and has decided to bowl first.
Read out full toss report right here.
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Let’s have a look at the full squads that both the teams have at their disposal ahead of IPL 2025, Match 30.
Lucknow Super Giants: Rishabh Pant (c & wk), David Miller, Aiden Markram, Aryan Juyal, Himmat Singh, Matthew Breetzke, Nicholas Pooran (wk), Mitchell Marsh, Abdul Samad, Shahbaz Ahmed, Yuvraj Chaudhary, Rajvardhan Hangargekar, Arshin Kulkarni, Ayush Badoni, Avesh Khan, Akash Deep, M Siddharth, Digvesh Singh, Akash Singh, Shamar Joseph, Prince Yadav, Mayank Yadav, Mohsin Khan, Shardul Thakur, Ravi Bishnoi
Chennai Super Kings: Rachin Ravindra, Devon Conway, Vijay Shankar, Shivam Dube, Ravindra Jadeja, MS Dhoni (c & w), Ravichandran Ashwin, Noor Ahmad, Mukesh Choudhary, Khaleel Ahmed, Matheesha Pathirana, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Jamie Overton, Shaik Rasheed, Nathan Ellis, Rahul Tripathi, Deepak Hooda, Shreyas Gopal, Sam Curran, Anshul Kamboj, Gurjapneet Singh, Ramakrishna Ghosh, Andre Siddarth C, Vansh Bedi
Welcome to our live coverage of the LSG vs CSK, IPL 2025 match! The match begins at 7:30 PM IST. Find out how to watch the crunch match live right here.
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