Match 50 Highlights – LSG vs RCB
Main Pointers – LSG vs RCB, Match 50, TATA IPL 2026
- Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) defeated Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) by 9 runs in a rain-affected match.
- The match was reduced to 19 overs per side due to rain interruptions at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium.
- LSG kept their playoff hopes alive with a crucial victory.
- RCB captain Rajat Patidar won the toss and elected to bowl first.
- Mitchell Marsh dominated the innings with a sensational century.
- Marsh smashed Josh Hazlewood for two huge sixes early in the innings.
- LSG ended the Powerplay at 68/0, with Marsh scoring 58 off just 24 balls.
- Arshin Kulkarni played the supporting role with 17 off 24 balls.
- Nicholas Pooran provided explosive support after Kulkarni’s dismissal.
- Marsh and Pooran added a quickfire 70-run partnership off 41 balls.
- Mitchell Marsh reached his century in just 49 balls.
- Marsh’s innings formed the backbone of LSG’s total before he departed in the 17th over.
- Rishabh Pant finished strongly with an unbeaten 32 off only 10 balls.
- LSG posted a massive 209/3 in 19 overs.
- Mohammed Shami and Prince Yadav gave LSG a dream start with the ball.
- Virat Kohli was dismissed for a second-ball duck by Prince Yadav.
- Jacob Bethell also fell early as RCB slipped under pressure.
- Devdutt Padikkal and Rajat Patidar rebuilt the innings with a 95-run partnership off 53 balls.
- Padikkal scored 34 off 25 balls.
- Rajat Patidar led from the front with a brilliant 61 off 31 balls.
- Patidar smashed six sixes, including a gigantic 101-metre maximum.
- Tim David played a blazing cameo of 40 off 17 balls.
- Tim David and Krunal Pandya added 46 runs off 24 balls to keep RCB alive.
- Krunal Pandya hit back-to-back sixes in the 17th over to intensify the chase.
- Prince Yadav bowled a crucial penultimate over, conceding just 13 runs.
- Prince Yadav finished with impressive figures of 3/33.
- RCB needed 20 runs off the final over.
- Digvesh Rathi held his nerve and successfully defended the target.
- The defeat denied RCB the chance to move to the top of the points table.
- Despite the victory, LSG remained at the bottom of the table but stayed mathematically alive in the playoff race.
