On a hot day, runs poured when Gujarat Titans batted, but after an aggressive start, Lucknow Super Giants found runs at a premium and fell 56 runs short of 228 at the Narendra Modi Stadium in the IPL-16 here on Sunday. The Titans made merry and kept the scoreboard ticking at a run-rate of over 11 throughout the 20 overs with the highest of 13 runs an over at the end of Powerplay. Chasing an imposing target of 228, Lucknow started well with Kyle Mayers and Quinton de Kock scoring at 12 runs an over in the first six overs and continued at 10 runs an over till the half-way mark.

Rain threat

The middle overs, however, saw the Gujarat bowlers taking the ascendency over the Lucknow batters as the run-rate kept dropping like the mercury that began to drop just before sunset. The weather suddenly changed so much so that, as a precaution, the giant scoreboards began flashing the DLS scores as a cloud cover post dusk time hinted at possibility of rains.