IPL 2022: Mohsin Khan, Krunal Pandya, Chameera lead LSG's 20-run win over Punjab Kings

Mohsin Khan 324 Dushmantha Chameera 217 and Krunal Pandya 211 led a fantastic bowling performance by Lucknow Super Giants to register a 20run win over Punjab Kings at MCA Stadium in Pune on Friday The result means that Lucknow are now placed third in points tableAfter Kagiso Rabadas 438 restricted Lucknow to 1538 on a sticky pitch Punjab lost their way after captain Mayank Agarwal fell in powerplay and Liam Livingstone was dismissed in middle overs with the side eventually making 1338 in their 20 overs Lucknow never lifted the constant pressure over Punjbs batters and got timely breakthroughs when needed the mostAgarwal had a fast start slamming two sixes and two fours to score 25 off 18 balls Both of his sixes came by backing away and creating room to carve the maximums over offside Agarwal attempted to do the same off Chameera but KL Rahul at midoff timed his jump well to take a brilliant catch in the fifth overJonny Bairstow slammed two fours off Avesh Khan in the final over of powerplay as Punjab signed off with 461 Post powerplay the chase began to fall away as Shikhar Dhawan was castled by Bishnoi in an attempt to slogsweep while Bhanuka Rajapaksa tried to play for the turn but got a leading edge to point running from left off PandyaLivingstone danced down the pitch twice to hit Bishnoi for successive sixes in an over which yielded 18 runs Just when it felt like Punjab would run away with the match Mohsin took out Livingstone who shuffled across to scoop and could only glove behind to de Kock In the next over Pandya trapped Jitesh Sharma lbw after Lucknow took the reviewBairstow waged a lone battle with the bat taking two fours off Bishnoi But Chameera delivered the knockout blow forcing Bairstow to play at a full wide delivery and edge to third man Mohsin came back in his final over to take out Kagiso Rabada and Rahul Chahar Though Rishi Dhawan slammed boundaries off Avesh Khan in the final over it wasnt sufficient to deny Lucknow a welldeserved victoryEarlier at 981 things looked set for Lucknow to accelerate But a middleorder wobble saw them lose five wickets for just 13 runs between overs 1316 which eventually became six for 28 between overs 1318 Rabada got the first breakthrough when his length delivery around offstump nipped away to take the outer edge of KL Rahuls defence to JiteshQuinton de Kock opened up in the fifth over slamming backtoback sixes off Rabada hitting one down the ground followed by smacking over deep midwicket In a bid to go big de Kock played a crossbat shot off Rishi in last over of powerplay The thick edge flew over backward point and Rabada running backwards spilled a tough chance giving de Kock a reprieve at 19Deepak Hooda promoted to three with no Manish Pandey in the eleven struggled to time the ball despite lofting Rishi over longoff for a huge six De Kock went quite after powerplay ended though he drove Livingstone through cover and cracked a sweep past short fine leg off ChaharThe partnership of 85 off 59 balls for the second wicket ended when de Kock got a faint edge on a cut off Sandeep Sharma in the 13th over and though onfield umpire gave not out as his decision the lefthanded opener walked off De Kocks fall began a slide for Lucknows middle order as some lazy running from Hooda saw him runout by a direct hit from Bairstow at deep square legPandya holed out to longon off Rabada and four balls later Ayush Badoni flicked only for the topedge to be pouched by Livingstone running in from longon Marcus Stoinis chipped a catch straight back to Chahar off his own bowling Chahar had another scalp when Jason Holder lofted straight to deep coverChameera carted Rabada for successive sixes in his last over to infuse some life into Lucknows innings But Chameeras stay at the crease ended when he lofted off the bottom of the bat and was caught by deep cover who ran in and timed his slide well It took a drive through extra cover by Mohsin on the last ball off Arshdeep to take Lucknow past 150Brief scores Lucknow Super Giants 1538 in 20 overs Quinton de Kock 46 Deepak Hooda 34 Kagiso Rabada 438 Rahul Chahar 230 beat Punjab Kings 1338 in 20 overs Jonny Bairstow 32 Mayank Agarwal 25 Mohsin Khan 324 Krunal Pandya 211 by 20 runsThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for the dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the contents in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever