- BATSMENRBM4s6sSR15.3 gone! Outside edge to Jitesh. Good comeback by Bhuvi. He bowled this with a scrambled seam, and quite full on sixth stump. Marsh went lofting again, but seemed to have gone too hard at it. The length, too, seemed too full to try and have a muscle at it. Eventually, Marsh ended up getting a little tickle behind to depart for 67 177/22.4 Swing's back and it's so very late. A low-release, slingy low full toss was coming in towards middle for most of its path before deviating towards off. Breetzke gave himself room and tried to caress it through cover. Then tried to adjust into a square drive, got no contact. 25/119.5 taken at fine leg! Pooran was yet to hit a six, and he falls without having got one. A slower bouncer from Shepherd, who bowled it around middle and leg. Pooran looked to have a pull at it by riding the bounce, but couldn't clear the boundary. The ball is caught by Dayal... but hang on! Replays show the ball may have juuust slipped out of his hands. He looks to catch it with both hands, although there seemed to be a hint of the ball having touched the ground. It is referred upstairs by the on-field umpires, who rules it to be a clean catch 226/3Extras14 (lb 7, nb 1, w 6)TOTAL227/3 (20 Overs, RR: 11.35)Fall of wickets: 1-25 (Matthew Breetzke, 2.4 ov), 2-177 (Mitchell Marsh, 15.3 ov), 3-226 (Nicholas Pooran, 19.5 ov)
Bowling O M R W Econ 0s 4s 6s WD NB N Thushara 4 0 26 1 6.5 10 3 0 1 1 KH Pandya 2 0 14 0 7 5 0 1 1 0 Yash Dayal 3 0 44 0 14.66 3 5 2 1 0 B Kumar 4 0 46 1 11.5 8 4 3 1 0 Suyash Sharma 3 0 39 0 13 4 3 3 0 0 R Shepherd 4 0 51 1 12.75 6 2 5 2 0
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- BATSMENRBM4s6sSR5.4 No getting away this time, Salt is caught at cover. Akash whacks it into the pitch, 147ks although it didn't look that fast, angling away outside off. Salt didn't move across, tried to slap it over extra. It rose just above the shoulder, he jumped but still couldn't reach it. 61/111.2 sliced to long-off! RCB had already slowed down, and this wicket will hurt them further. Avesh swung this ball in, and pitched it on a fullish length around off. Kohli went lofting through the line, and played with the full face of the bat and with a high left elbow. But none of that got him the distance he would have liked. Good low catch by Badoni, and LSG land a big blow 123/47.5 Slower one and Patidar slashes straight to backward point. 118ks cutter on a length was wide, Patidar walked into the shot. Wanted to go over cover, got a thickish edge that went flat around chest-height 90/27.6 Lbw given, looked out. No review. Back to back for O'Rourke! LIvingstone went across to off stump and tried to flick the 135ks full ball from the crease. It went past the edge and hit him flush on the front foot. Pitching off, impact middle, hitting leg 90/3Extras6 (nb 1, w 5)TOTAL230/4 (18.4 Overs, RR: 12.32)Fall of wickets: 1-61 (Phil Salt, 5.4 ov), 2-90 (Rajat Patidar, 7.5 ov), 3-90 (Liam Livingstone, 7.6 ov), 4-123 (Virat Kohli, 11.2 ov)
Bowling O M R W Econ 0s 4s 6s WD NB Akash Singh 4 0 40 1 10 6 7 0 0 0 W O'Rourke 4 0 74 2 18.5 3 9 4 2 0 DS Rathi 4 0 36 0 9 5 3 1 0 1 Shahbaz Ahmed 3 0 39 0 13 3 6 1 0 0 Avesh Khan 3 0 32 1 10.66 5 5 0 2 0 A Badoni 0.4 0 9 0 13.5 1 0 1 0 0
Match Details
Toss
Royal Challengers Bengaluru , elected to field first
Player Of The Match
Season
Hours of play (local time)
19.30 start, First Session 19.30-21.00, Interval 21.00-21.15, Second Session 21.15-22.45
Match days
27 May 2025 - night match (20-over match)
Umpires
TV Umpires
Reserve Umpire
Match Referee
Points
Royal Challengers Bengaluru 2, Lucknow Super Giants 0
Match Notes
- Powerplay 1: Overs 0.1 - 6.0 (Mandatory - 55 runs, 1 wicket)
- Lucknow Super Giants Impact Player Subs: Yuvraj Chaudhary, Arshin Kulkarni, Akash Singh, Prince Yadav and Ravi Bishnoi
- Royal Challengers Bengaluru Impact Player Subs: Tim Seifert, Swapnil Singh, Rajat Patidar, Rasikh Salam and Manoj Bhandage
- Over 0.4: Review by Royal Challengers Bengaluru (Bowling), Decision Challenged - Wicket, Umpire - MA Gough, Batter - MR Marsh (Struck down)
- Lucknow Super Giants: 50 runs in 5.4 overs (35 balls), Extras 6
- Strategic Timeout: Lucknow Super Giants - 55/1 in 6.0 overs (MR Marsh 15, RR Pant 20)
- 2nd Wicket: 50 runs in 35 balls (MR Marsh 12, RR Pant 35, Ex 3)
- Lucknow Super Giants: 100 runs in 9.5 overs (60 balls), Extras 8
- RR Pant: 50 off 29 balls (5 x 4, 3 x 6)
- 2nd Wicket: 100 runs in 56 balls (MR Marsh 37, RR Pant 58, Ex 6)
- MR Marsh: 50 off 31 balls (4 x 4, 3 x 6)
- Lucknow Super Giants: 150 runs in 14.0 overs (85 balls), Extras 12
- Lucknow Super Giants: 150 runs in 14.0 overs (85 balls), Extras 11
- 2nd Wicket: 150 runs in 77 balls (MR Marsh 60, RR Pant 83, Ex 8)
- Strategic Timeout: Lucknow Super Giants - 177/2 in 15.3 overs (RR Pant 83)
- Over 17.1: Review by Lucknow Super Giants (Batting), Decision Challenged - Wide, Umpire - VK Sharma, Batter - RR Pant (Struck down)
- Lucknow Super Giants: 200 runs in 17.5 overs (108 balls), Extras 14
- RR Pant: 100 off 54 balls (10 x 4, 6 x 6)
- Innings Break: Lucknow Super Giants - 227/3 in 20.0 overs (RR Pant 118, Abdul Samad 1)
- Powerplay 1: Overs 0.1 - 6.0 (Mandatory - 66 runs, 1 wicket)
- N Pooran kept wickets in the place of RR Pant from 0.1 overs to 4.6 overs.
- Lucknow Super Giants Impact Player Sub: Akash Singh in for Mitchell Marsh ( Lucknow Super Giants innings, 19.6 ov)
- Royal Challengers Bengaluru: 50 runs in 3.6 overs (24 balls), Extras 1
- 1st Wicket: 50 runs in 24 balls (PD Salt 26, V Kohli 23, Ex 1)
- Strategic Timeout: Royal Challengers Bengaluru - 76/1 in 7.0 overs (V Kohli 37, RM Patidar 7)
- Royal Challengers Bengaluru: 100 runs in 9.1 overs (55 balls), Extras 4
- V Kohli: 50 off 27 balls (10 x 4)
- Royal Challengers Bengaluru: 150 runs in 13.4 overs (82 balls), Extras 4
- 5th Wicket: 50 runs in 21 balls (MA Agarwal 11, JM Sharma 39, Ex 0)
- Strategic Timeout: Royal Challengers Bengaluru - 177/4 in 15.0 overs (MA Agarwal 36, JM Sharma 39)
- Over 15.2: Review by Lucknow Super Giants (Bowling), Decision Challenged - Wide, Umpire - VK Sharma, Batter - JM Sharma (Struck down)
- Strategic Timeout: Royal Challengers Bengaluru - 189/4 in 16.0 overs (MA Agarwal 37, JM Sharma 49)
- JM Sharma: 50 off 22 balls (6 x 4, 3 x 6)
- Over 16.4: Review by Royal Challengers Bengaluru (Batting), Decision Challenged - Wide, Umpire - MA Gough, Batter - JM Sharma (Struck down)
- Royal Challengers Bengaluru: 200 runs in 16.6 overs (103 balls), Extras 6
- 5th Wicket: 100 runs in 43 balls (MA Agarwal 20, JM Sharma 79, Ex 2)
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