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Live blog - Lucknow Super Giants vs Punjab Kings - LSG smash PBKS in a big turnaround
By Sidharth MongaLSG smash PBKS in a big turnaround
It's all over folks. LSG have played the near-perfect T20 match tonight after taking on the conditions by choosing to bowl first. We leave you with a teaser from our report. Thanks for joining us.
Justin Langer has arrived in the IPL. It took just one game of tired-old T20 cricket, and the consequent heavy defeat of course, for Lucknow Super Giants to burn that book of conservative T20 cricket and play with much higher intent. As a result they didn’t have the ideal players operating in the death overs of each innings, but they had done enough damage in the middle overs on both occasions to win by 21 runs. The 103 that LSG scored in the middle overs is the second-highest in their history; both the efforts featured Pooran and Marcus Stoinis batting a higher number of balls unlike in the first match when they were held back for the death overs. With the ball, LSG unleashed Mayank Yadav’s extreme pace – highest being 156.8kmph – and awkward bounce to take five wickets for 84. As it turned out, they lost out on some runs in the final few overs and had to bowl Krunal Pandya in the 19th, but the game was over by then."