In a thrilling encounter at Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Cricket Stadium, Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) emerged victorious against Mumbai Indians (MI) by 5 runs in Match 63 of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2023.
Put in to bat, the Super Giants got off to a steady start with Quinton de Kock scoring 16 runs off 15 deliveries, including two sixes. However, Deepak Hooda (5 runs off 7 balls) and Prerak Mankad (0 runs off 1 ball) were dismissed early.
Captain Krunal Pandya played a crucial innings, contributing 49 runs off 42 deliveries, including one boundary and one six. But it was Marcus Stoinis who stole the show with a blistering knock of 89 runs off just 47 balls. Stoinis smashed four boundaries and eight incredible sixes, propelling the Super Giants to a competitive total of 177/3 in their allotted 20 overs.
Among the Mumbai Indians bowlers, Jason Behrendorff was the most successful, taking 2 wickets for 30 runs in his four overs. Piyush Chawla claimed one wicket, while Chris Jordan, Hrithik Shokeen, and Akash Madhwal remained wicketless.
In their chase of 178 runs, Mumbai began their innings with Ishan Kishan and Rohit Sharma at the crease. Kishan played a brilliant knock, scoring 59 runs off 39 deliveries, including eight boundaries and one six. Skipper Rohit contributed 37 runs off 25 balls, including one four and three sixes. However, the rest of the MI’s batting lineup struggled to maintain the required run rate.
Nehal Wadhera (16 runs off 20 balls), Suryakumar Yadav (7 runs off 9 balls), and Cameron Green (4 runs off 6 balls) failed to make significant contributions. Tim David provided some late fireworks, smashing 32 runs off just 19 deliveries, including one boundary and three sixes. Mohsin Khan grabbed maximum highlights with a tremendous final over, where he defended 10 runs despite having the likes of David and Greent in the middle.
Here is how Twitter reacted:
MOHSIN KHAN. REMEMBER THE NAME. 🔥💥 pic.twitter.com/OIgwQkzDIQ
— Lucknow Super Giants (@LucknowIPL) May 16, 2023
The two Ms – Marcus and Mohsin! Breathtaking performance #LSG pic.twitter.com/1WOQ7Uwz6h
— Gautam Gambhir (@GautamGambhir) May 16, 2023
Terrific last over by Mohsin. To defend 11 of the last over against Tim David and Green was a special effort. Last 3 overs with the ball proved costly for Mumbai. #LSGvMI
— Virender Sehwag (@virendersehwag) May 16, 2023
Indian death bowlers regularly outshining overseas bowlers. Great sign for Indian cricket!#LSGvMI
— Sanjay Manjrekar (@sanjaymanjrekar) May 16, 2023
Mohsin Khan has bowled the over of his life. Short of breathe when he began but delivered the best 6 balls of his career so far. Wow. Just fantastic. #LSGvsMI #IPL2023
— Ridhima Pathak (@PathakRidhima) May 16, 2023
Closest defeats for MI while chasing in IPL:
1 run v KXIP 2008
2 runs v RR 2009
2 runs v RCB 2013
3 runs v KXIP 2009
3 runs vs RPS 2017
3 runs vs SRH 2022
5 runs vs LSG 2023#LSGvMI— Bharath Seervi (@SeerviBharath) May 16, 2023
Mohsin Khan defends 10 runs in the final over!#LSG #MI #LSGvMI #IPL2023 #IPL #cricket #CricketTwitter pic.twitter.com/nwJFdLKnLa
— CricketTimes.com (@CricketTimesHQ) May 16, 2023
Lucknow Super Giants moves to 3rd in the Points Table.
15 Points from 13 games – Incredible comeback. pic.twitter.com/uJqX8TVtzb
— Johns. (@CricCrazyJohns) May 16, 2023
Mohsin Khan brother. Take care of your health. Love from me and my homies at CSK.
— Silly Point (@FarziCricketer) May 16, 2023
💔#OneFamily #LSGvMI #MumbaiMeriJaan #MumbaiIndians #IPL2023 #TATAIPL pic.twitter.com/o1csPkHmbr
— Mumbai Indians (@mipaltan) May 16, 2023
Mumbai have only themselves to blame – from 90/0 in 9.3 overs, they ought not to have messed up their batting order. How on Earth did they have Nihal and Vinod batting above Green?? #MIvsLSG
— Vikrant Gupta (@vikrantgupta73) May 16, 2023
Mohsin Khan wins it for Lucknow Super Giants!
TAKE. A. BOW 🙌#TATAIPL | #LSGvMI
— IndianPremierLeague (@IPL) May 16, 2023
24 runs in the 18th over changed the momentum for Lucknow. We’ll played Stoinis. Mohsin Khan who plays for Uttar Pradesh wins it for Lucknow at his home ground. Incidentally Mohsin was bought by MI in 2018
— Sarang Bhalerao (@bhaleraosarang) May 16, 2023
#Twitter #reactions #Marcus #Stoinis #Mohsin #Khan #shine #LSGs #thrilling #win #IPL