DC vs LSG Highlights, IPL 2024: Delhi End League Stage With 19-Run Win Over Lucknow
DC vs LSG Live Score, IPL 2024: Delhi Capitals beat Lucknow Super Giants at the Arun Jaitley Stadium in New Delhi in their final league-stage match of the season.
DC win. They beat LSG by 19 runs. They end the IPL 2024 league stage with 14 points. LSG still have a game to go but remain at 12 points. DC's hopes alive and so are LSG's. But this evening DC were clearly the better side.
23 Needed Off 6 Balls. Rasikh Salam with the ball in hand.
Fraser-McGurk's direct hit runs out Ravi Bishnoi at the non-striker end. LSG 9 down for 183 after 18.3 Overs. Target is 209, remember.
Mukesh bowling The Penultimate Over of the match.
And just when it felt like one-way traffic, LSG's Arshad has produced his maiden T20 fifty. Getting to the landmark off 25 balls. That has kept LSG in the game with the chasing team now needing 29 runs to win from 12 balls.
LSG batters out in the middle are Arshad Khan and Krunal Pandya. They need 92 runs in 42 balls.
LSG lose their sixth now. Surely the game's going away from their grasp. Mukesh Kumar gets rid of Pooran who gets caught at extra cover. Lucknow- 101/6 after 11.1 Overs.
Third wicket for Ishant Sharma. LSG four down inside the powerplay as Deepak Hooda gets beaten on a ball pitched short of a length angling in and it thrashes on his pads. Hooda reviews after being asked by Nicholas Pooran, his batting partner but the decision remains unchanged. LSG- 44/4 after 4.1 Overs.
LSG going nowhere with this chase as Marcus Stoinis departs. Goes down the track first ball against Axar Patel and pays the price. Rishabh Pant whips the bails off after Stoinis missed and LSG are 24/3 after 3.1 Overs
Both the openers dismissed- Quinton de Kock looking to clear the in-field gets caught at mid-on. Ishant Sharma with the second wicket in the spell. LSG- 24/2 after 2.5 overs.
KL Rahul falls in the first over itself. Loses his shape while trying to go for the big shot and gets caught by the fielder at cover-point. Out for 5 off 3. LSG- 7/1 after 0.5 Overs.
Lucknown need 209 runs to win. Quinton de Kock and KL Rahul the LSG openers, Ishant Sharma with the new ball in hand for DC.
So DC finish at 208/4. 12 runs off the last over. Stubbs and Porel, the star performers for the home team and they wouldn' mind the score they have managed, given the strangulated situation they found themselves in after Ravi Bishnoi's spell (1/26 off 4 overs). Naveen-ul-Haq (2/51 off 4) and Arshad Khan (1/45 off 3) were the other wicket-takers for LSG. Will be back with the chase.
Yudhvir Singh to finish it off for LSG.
End of a 21-run over. DC-196/4 after 19 overs.
22-Ball Fifty From Stubbs lifts up DC. WHat an innings this. Gets there with Two, FOUR, SIX, Two, SIX off successive balls in the 19th over of the innings being bowled by Naveen.
Pant, trying to up the ante, holes out in the deep. It's a slower ball on the wide line from Naveen which Pant cannot time well enough to clear the fielder at long-on. DC- 158/4 after 16.2 Overs.
What a spell from Ravi Bishnoi. He has conceded 26 runs from his 4 overs, scalping a wicket.
11 runs coming off the 14th over with Rishabh Pant finding the boundary twice against Krunal Pandya. DC move to 132/3 after 14 overs. Rishabh Pant- 24* off 16, Tristan Stubbs- 5* off 6.
New Batter out in the middle for DC is Tristan Stubbs.
It's Porel, who was DC's best batter so far, who departs for a 33-ball 58. It's a mistimed pull off the bowling of Naveen-ul-Haq that has carried to Nicholas Pooran. DC- 111/3 after 11.1 Overs.
At the end of the 10 over mark, DC managed to reach 106/2 with Hope being the second wicket to fall, falling for 38 off 27. Ravi Bishnoi produced that wicket for LSG in the 9th over and a brilliant catch from KL Rahul that made the wicket possible. Rishabh Pant had joined Porel at the fall of that wicket.
Porel on the charge. The southpaw first smashed Mohsin for the first SIX of evening before going FOUR, FOUR, SIX Off successive balls off Arshad.
Mohsin Khan from the other end for LSG. Shai Hope in at 3.
WICKET! LSG strike early and it's Arshad Khan who has handed LSG a breakthrough in the first over itself. He has gotten the ball to swing into the right hander but the extra bounce means when he goes for the big hit, he doeesn't quite middle it and it's taken at long on. DC- 2/1 after 0.2 overs.
DC: Jake Fraser-McGurk, Abishek Porel, Shai Hope, Rishabh Pant (captain & wicketkeeper), Tristan Stubbs, Axar Patel, Gulbadin Naib, Rasikh Salam, Kuldeep Yadav, Mukesh Kumar, Khaleel Ahmed
Breaking News: LSG choose to bowl first.
Hello and welcome to our live coverage of the IPL 2024 Delhi Capitals (DC) vs Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) match at the Arun Jaitley Stadium.
Background
DC vs LSG Live Score, IPL 2024: Hello and welcome to our live coverage of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024 fixture set to be played between Delhi Capitals (DC) and Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) at the Arun Jaitley Stadium in New Delhi. Both DC and LSG find themselves languishing in the sixth and the seventh place on the points table but are not yet out of the Playoffs race.
IPL 2024 DC vs LSG Live Score, Delhi Capitals vs Lucknow Super Giants: While DC have registered 6 wins from 7 matches, LSG have 6 wins from 6 matches. DC would want to end their league stage with a win and end on 14 points, giving themselves the best chance to qualify even though their qualification will still not be guaranteed. As far as LSG are concerned, they have 2 matches remaining in the league stage and need to win each of their two remaining games to reach 16 points.
Among LSG's two challenges is the fact that they find they happen to be the second slowest batting side in this edition of the competition. They have scored runs at 8.35 runs per over and if they need to win their last two matches, they need to score at a good rate especially in Delhi- a venue which has witnessed the highest run rate in the season.
Other than their batting, LSG's bowlers have also taken the fewest wickets and would need to put up a better show when they take on Rishabh Pant & Co. DC might have an outside chance and their best bet is when the likes of Jake Fraser-McGurk go bersek at the top, helping them reach a competitive total which they go on to defend successfully.
At the outset then, this looks set to be another entertaining affair coming your way at the Arun Jaitley Stadium in New Delhi.
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