Lucknow Super Giants beat Chennai Super Kings by seven wickets ipl 2026 On 15th May at Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Cricket Stadium. CSK scored 187/5 in their 20 overs after the top order failed to make significant contributions.
The middle order played a vital role for CSK, with Karthik Sharma leading the fight with a brilliant inning of 71 runs in 42 balls. His innings included six fours and five sixes at an impressive strike rate of 169.05. He made a valuable partnership of 70 runs in 44 balls for the fourth wicket with Dewald Brevis. After his dismissal, Shivam Dubey and Prashant Veer provided the finishing touches. Dubey remained unbeaten on 32 off just 16 balls to help CSK reach a competitive total. For LSG, Akash Maharaj Singh bowled brilliantly, taking 3 for 26 in his four overs.
In reply, the host team easily achieved the target by scoring 188/3 runs in 16.4 overs. Mitchell Marsh played a devastating inning of 90 runs in 38 balls with the help of nine fours and seven sixes at a strike rate of 236.84. He also made a brilliant opening partnership of 135 runs in just 70 balls with Josh Inglis, which laid the right foundation for the chase.
After this, Nicholas Pooran finished the game brilliantly by scoring unbeaten 32 runs in 17 balls. CSK bowlers struggled to contain the aggressive batting performance as the defeat pushed them to sixth place in the standings, while LSG remained at the bottom of the table with four wins from 12 matches.
Here are the most important stats and milestones from Match 59:
- Mitchell Marsh completed 100 IPL sixes and hit the most number of sixes (31 in IPL 2026) for Lucknow Super Giants in a season.
- Marsh and Josh Inglis added 135 runs for LSG vs Chennai Super Kings, the third highest partnership for the franchise.
- Marsh has been involved in five of LSG's nine century partnerships in IPL history.
- He hit 67 sixes in IPL 2025-2026, the most by any player, ahead of Abhishek Sharma (65).
- Marsh scored 56* off 22 balls in the powerplay, one of the fastest half-centuries for LSG in overs 1-6.
- LSG scored 86/0 in the powerplay against CSK, their third highest score in the first six overs.
- Anshul Kamboj gave away 28 runs in an over, which is the most expensive over by a CSK bowler in the powerplay.
- Marsh's 28-run over is equal to the most runs scored by an LSG batsman in IPL history (previously also achieved by Nicholas Pooran).
- Pooran now holds the record for most outfield catches for LSG (21).
- LSG used 16 overs of seam vs CSK, the fifth instance of such a tactic in an IPL match.
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