IPL 2024 RR Vs LSG: Lucknow Supergiants and Rajasthan Royals clashed on Sunday as part of the 17th season of the Indian Premier League. Rajasthan Royals won the toss and chose to bat. 193 runs for four wickets in 20 overs. Rajasthan team captain Sanju Samson (82; three fours, 6 sixes off 52 balls) batted heroically. He was joined by Ryan Parag (43; one four, three sixes off 29 balls) and the Rajasthan team posted a respectable score. Lucknow set a target of 194 runs in front of them.
After winning the toss and electing to bat, the Rajasthan team did not get off to a great start. When the team's score was 13 runs, opener Butler (11) got out after giving a catch to KL Rahul in the bowling of Naveen-ul-Haq. Immediately after he got out, Sanju, who came as a one-down batter, played the captain's innings. He shouldered the responsibility of building the innings along with another opener, Yashaswi Jaiswal. Both of them added 36 runs for the second wicket. In this background, when the team's score was 46 runs, Jaiswal (24) got out after giving a catch to Mohsin Khan bowling to Krunal Pandya in 4.6 overs. In this background Ryan Parag came into the crease. Both of them put on a partnership of 93 runs for the third wicket. The team's score was taken up to 142 runs. In 14.5 overs, Rian Parag caught Deepak Hooda off the bowling of Naveen-ul-Haq and got out. The Simron Hit Mayer(5) that followed was unimpressive. Dhruv Jurel (20; one four, one six off 12 balls) shone. Sanju Samson and Jurel made a partnership of 43 runs. Rajasthan scored 193 runs as all the overs were completed by then. Lucknow set a winning target of 114 runs.
Sanju set a new record by scoring 82 runs in this match. He entered the IPL in 2020. He scored 74 runs in 32 balls in the first match. In the opening match of the 2021 season, he scored 119 runs off 63 balls. He scored 55 runs off 27 balls in the opening match of the 2022 season. He scored 55 runs off 32 balls in the opening match of last season. And in the opening match of the 2024 17th season, he scored 82 runs off 52 balls and remained not out against the Lucknow team. In this opening match, Sanju scored four consecutive half-centuries and one century to his name.
Sanju played a game against the Lucknow bowlers in Sunday's match as well. Especially Ash Thakur's bowling is the sky is the limit. Sanju stopped at 82 runs as all the overs were over. Otherwise, the century would be bad. After Parag got out.. Sanju could not find the right pair. Had Jurel arrived before Hitmeyer, Rajasthan's score would have been different. Among the Rajasthan bowlers, Naveen 2, Mohsin Khan and Ravi Bishnoi got one wicket each. In this match, Lucknow bowlers gave 8 runs in the form of extras.
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