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IPL 2023: Rain turned villain, match between Lucknow and Chennai canceled, both teams got 1-1 points
The 45th match of IPL 2023 was played at the Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Cricket Stadium in Lucknow. However, due to incessant rain, the game had to be stopped in 19.2 overs of the first innings. At this time the batting of Lucknow Supergiants was going on. Lucknow Supergiants had scored 125 runs for 7 wickets. Play was halted at approximately 5:20. Since then it rained continuously. The game was declared abandoned at approximately 6:57. Both the teams got one point each. Looking at the points table, Lucknow Supergiants have 11 points in 10 matches and are at number two while Chennai Super Kings also have 11 points in 10 matches and are at number three.
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This was the first time since 2011 that the match between Delhi Daredevils and Pune Warriors was abandoned and both the teams got one point each. A tremendous craze of fans was seen in the stadium regarding Mahendra Singh Dhoni. The fans were continuously shouting slogans in support of Dhoni. Chennai Super Kings captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni won the toss and decided to bowl first. Coming out to bat, Lucknow Supergiants did not have a good start. The first wicket fell on the score of 18 runs in the form of Kyle Mayers. Kyle Meyers of that time was playing after scoring 14 runs. In the absence of KL Rahul, Manan Vohra came to open for the team. But got out after scoring only 10 runs.
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Karan Sharma 9, captaining Kunal Pandya 0 and Marcus Stoinis scored only 6 runs. Nicholas Pooran tried to fight back and played an innings of 20 runs in 31 balls. But youngster Ayush Badoni brought excitement to the match by playing an innings of 59 runs in 35 balls. Ayush Badoni hit 2 fours and 4 sixes in his innings of 59 runs. Moin Ali got two successes from Chennai. He gave only 13 runs in 4 overs bowling. At the same time, Mahish Teekshana achieved two successes by giving 7 runs in 4 overs. Ravindra Jadeja gave 11 runs in 3 overs and took 1 wicket while Mathisha Pathirana took 2 wickets in 3.2 overs and gave 22 runs.
