Delhi: The Lucknow Super Giants and Rajasthan Royals are face to face in the 36th match of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025. In this match being played at Sawai Mansingh Stadium in Jaipur, Lucknow captain Rishabh Pant won the toss and decided to bat first. Batting first, the Lucknow team scored 180 runs losing 5 wickets in 20 overs. The Rajasthan team could not meet this target and lost the match by 2 runs. It was the fifth win in Lucknow season.
Rajasthan’s innings
The Rajasthan team started chasing the target, it was very good. 14 -year -old young batsman Vaibhav Suryavanshi made a bang with Yashasvi Jaiswal, who came out to open. Vaibhav shocked everyone by hitting a six off the first ball of the IPL debut match. The two batsmen together added 85 runs in 8.4 overs for the first wicket. Vaibhav scored 34 runs in 20 balls, but he was dismissed by Aden Markram.
Yashasvi played a brilliant innings of 74 runs off 52 balls. Nitish Rana could not do much special by scoring 8 runs. After this, Ryan Parag and Jaiswal handled the team’s innings and took the score to 156. But then the turning point came in the match, when in the 18th over, Avesh Khan first raised hopes of returning to Lucknow by dismissing Ryan Parag on the last ball of the over and then on the last ball of the over.
Avesh Khan, while bowling brilliantly in the 18th and 20th over, changed the picture of the entire match. In these two overs, he took a total of 3 important wickets, causing Rajasthan’s batting. In front of his deadly bowling, Rajasthan batsmen failed to score runs and continued to fall wickets. In the last over, Avesh continued the best bowling and won Lucknow by 2 runs in a thrilling match.
Lucknow bowling could not show much effect in this match. Only Avesh Khan was seen fighting with Rajasthan’s batting alone and he took 3 important wickets. Apart from him, Shardul Thakur and Aidan Markram got 1-1 success.
Lucknow’s innings
Lucknow’s innings started by Mitchell Marsh and Adon Markram, but Marsh could not last long and returned to the pavilion after scoring just 4 runs. After this, Markram played a brilliant innings of 66 runs in 45 balls, which included 5 fours and 3 sixes. Nicholas Puran (11 runs) and captain Rishabh Pant (3 runs) were also dismissed early.
In the middle overs, Ayush Badoni scored fast runs and scored 50 runs off 34 balls. In the final overs, Abdul Samad batted stormy with David Miller (7* run), scoring 30 runs in just 10 balls, which included a four and 4 powerful sixes. Samad scored 27 runs to bowler Sandeep Sharma in the last over of the match. Thanks to his innings, Lucknow scored a fast run in the last overs and took the score to 180.
Rajasthan bowlers performance
Vanindu Hasranga was the most successful bowler from Rajasthan. He took 2 wickets for just 31 runs in 4 overs. At the same time, Sandeep Sharma, Tushar Deshpande and Jofra Archer took one wicket each.
Playing XI of both teams
| Lucknow Super Giants (Playing XI) | Playing XI |
|---|---|
| Aden marikram | Yashasvi Jaiswal |
| Mitchell Marsh | Shubham Dubey |
| Nicholas puran | Ryan Parag (Captain) |
| Rishabh Pant (Wicketkeeper/captain) | Nitish rana |
| David miller | Dhruv jurael (wicket keeper) |
| Abdul samad | Shimron Hetmyer |
| Ravi Bishnoi | Vanindu Hasranga |
| Shardul Thakur | Jofra Archer |
| Prince Yadav | Mahesh Pratishna |
| Digvesh Singh Rathi | Sandeep Sharma |
| Avesh Khan | Tushar Deshpande |
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