Lucknow registers its first season win

IPL debutant Mayank Yadav turned an improbable legend after he got three urgent wickets to assist Lucknow Super Monsters to their most memorable season with victory on Saturday.

 

Lucknow beat Punjab Lords by 21 runs in their home ground after they posted 199-8, fueled by Quinton de Kock’s fifty and a fast fire 42 by substitute captain Nicholas Pooran.

 

In reply, Punjab completed on 178-5 regardless of a 102-run opening stand between captain Shikhar Dhawan (70) and Jonny Bairstow (42).

 

Yadav, who sent down this season’s quickest conveyance of 156 km/h, broke the stand with his lady wicket of Bairstow and returned figures of 3-27 to swing back the force in support of Lucknow.

 

“Mayank’s was the tale of the evening,” expressed Pooran of his man-of-the-match entertainer.

 

“It was a motivating exhibition. Each individual in the group is blissful. He had an opportunity and performed this evening. Was great watching him from mid-off.”

 

Delhi-conceived Yadav went to Lucknow for $24,000 last year yet neglected to turn up after a physical issue cost him the whole 2023 season.

 

Yadav returned from a 10-run first over to get Bairstow out with a short ball after the batsman miscued it to deep mid-wicket.

 

The 21-year-old got two additional wickets to smooth the resistance.

 

“Plan was to not be under a lot of strain and to bowl at the stumps and utilize the speed however much as could reasonably be expected,” said Yadav.

 

“There was the reminder to stir up the speed at first yet the wicket helped and the captain advised me to bowl gas.”

 

He said Bairstow’s presentation wicket was his “#1”.

 

Individual speedy Mohsin Khan took two wickets including Dhawan and Sam Curran, out for a duck, on progressive balls as Punjab tumbled to their second consecutive misfortune after an initial win.

 

The hitters set up triumph with De Kock’s fifty and a quick 42 by Pooran helping Lucknow to 199-8.

 

West Indies star Pooran crushed three fours and three sixes in his 21-ball rush after customary captain KL Rahul picked to play just as an opener at his home ground.

 

De Kock hit 54 to establish the groundwork for Lucknow’s all out with a going after start regardless of losing Rahul in the fourth over.

 

Rahul, who got back to serious cricket in the IPL after a physical issue, drove Lucknow in the group’s most memorable misfortune yet assumed a lower priority on home turf and was supplanted in the subsequent innings by substitute Naveen-ul-Haq.

 

De Kock put on 47 runs off 27 balls with individual left-hander Pooran, who took on the resistance assault with hits all over.

 

De Kock arrived at his 21st IPL fifty out of 34 balls with a boundary off crease bowler Harshal Patel yet before long tumbling to Arshdeep Singh’s left-arm medium-pace.

 

Lucknow lost ordinary wickets however Krunal Pandya hit an unbeaten 43 off 22 balls in a late attack, which terminated the hosts to match the best score at the setting — Lucknow’s 199-6 against Delhi Capitals last year. (AFP)