Younger quick bowler Mayank Yadav impressed on his IPL 2024 debut for Lucknow Tremendous Giants as he bowled the quickest supply of this 12 months’s competitors. Mayank seemed in good rhythm and through the twelfth over of the Punjab Kings innings, he produced a 155.8 kmph supply that left Shikhar Dhawan in a spot of trouble. The 21-year-old was purchased within the public sale in 2022 by LSG for the bottom worth of Rs 20 lakh however was then changed by Arpit Guleria attributable to an damage. Throughout his T20 profession, he has taken 12 wickets in 10 matches whereas in his Record A profession, Mayank has taken 34 wickets in 17 matches.
Mayank represents Delhi within the home circuit and though he took two necessary wickets within the semi-finals of Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy 2023-2024, his crew was defeated by Punjab.
Earlier, Krunal Pandya‘s late blitz powered Lucknow Tremendous Giants to a aggressive 199/8 of their Indian Premier League match towards Punjab Kings.
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Requested to bat first, opener Quinton de Kock top-scored for LSG with a 38-ball 54 nevertheless it was stand-in skipper Nicholas Pooran‘s 21-ball 42, which infused life into his crew’s innings within the center overs.
On the again of two sixes and 4 boundaries, Krunal then scored at a strike charge of 200 to complete on a 22-ball 43 and provides his facet additional cushion.
De Kock received the LSG innings underway with a splendid drive by mid-off for a boundary.
Taking part in the sport as ‘impression participant’ having handed over the management duty to Nicholas Pooran, KL Rahul did not look convincing as he tried to flick Kagiso Rabada behind sq. on the leg-side. Operating in from a great distance, a diving Harshal Patel made a valiant try to latch on to the ball however Rahul was fortunate because the fielder couldn’t pull off what would have been a blinder.
On the different finish, De Kock was in his components as he flayed Rabada over level for a 4 within the first supply he confronted from the South African speedster.
Subsequent ball de Kock did one higher, as he opened the face of the bat to whack Rabada over the backward level boundary for a six.
Rahul drove Arshdeep Singh down the bottom for a most, after which, smashed one other supply similarly, however that fetched him a 4.
Arshdeep, nonetheless, exacted his revenged when the left-arm seamer had the LSG batter caught by Jonny Bairstow at backward level for a nine-ball 15.
Devdutt Padikkal received himself two boundaries earlier than being dismissed by Sam Curran.
Marcus Stoinis (19) hit two sixes earlier than being bowled by Rahul Chahar as he seemed to hoick the spinner on the on-side.
That introduced Pooran into the center and the West Indian shortly received into the groove, hitting Chahar for 2 sixes and a 4 for a 20-run over, which gave LSG’s run charge a much-needed impetus.
In the meantime, De Kock introduced up his half century in 34 balls however a strategic timeout broke LSG’s momentum because the left-handed South African batter top-edged a brief Arshdeep supply for wicketkeeper Jitesh Sharma to finish a straightforward catch.
Pooran saved the scoreboard shifting at an excellent charge till he dragged a Rabada supply onto the stumps, an enormous blow for LSG at an important juncture.
New man Krunal Pandya didn’t waste any time to quiet down, brilliantly dispatching a brief Rabada supply over midwicket for a most. Curran bowled a decent seventeenth over to halt LSG’s cost, however Krunal received a flurry of boundaries to prop up LSG.
(With PTI inputs)
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