LSG vs DC IPL 2024: McGurk shines in debut match, Lucknow loses at home for the first time! Delhi beat Lucknow by 6 wickets

LSG vs DC IPL 2024: In IPL 2024, the 26th match of this season was played between Lucknow Super Giants and Delhi Capitals on Friday. In this match, Delhi Capitals defeated Lucknow by 6 wickets. Kuldeep Yadav and Jack Fraser-McGurk were the heroes of Delhi’s victory. While Kuldeep wreaked havoc with the ball, McGurk played a stormy innings with the bat, the result was that the Lucknow team lost for the first time after scoring more than 160 runs at home. 

After Kuldeep Yadav’s brilliant bowling (three wickets for 20 runs in four overs), Jack Fraser McGurk (55 runs in 35 balls) and captain Rishabh Pant’s (41 runs in 24 balls) aggressive batting helped Delhi Capitals register their second win by defeating Lucknow by six wickets on Friday.

Captain Rishabh Pant and McGurk, who was playing his debut match, shared a 77-run partnership in 46 balls for the third wicket, in which Pant hit four fours and two sixes. Australia’s 22-year-old McGurk hit five sixes and two fours. 

After restricting Lucknow to 167 runs for seven wickets, Delhi Capitals achieved the target in 18.1 overs at the loss of four wickets. For Lucknow, Ravi Bishnoi took two wickets while Naveen Ul Haq and Yash Thakur took one wicket each.

Lucknow set a challenging score with the half-century innings of Ayush Badoni (55 not out) and an unbroken partnership of 73 runs in 42 balls with Arshad Khan (20 not out) for the eighth wicket. This partnership of Badoni and Arshad is the biggest partnership for the eighth wicket in IPL history. 

In front of the brilliant bowling of ‘Player of the Match’ Kuldeep Yadav, Lucknow’s team was struggling after losing seven wickets for 94 runs after 13 overs, but Badoni and Arshad together took the team to a good score. Delhi has become the first IPL team to chase more than 160 runs in Lucknow. 

Chasing the target, David Warner (six runs) hit a four against Arshad in the first over, while Prithvi Shaw (32 runs) hit two fours against Naveen Ul Haq. Yash Thakur bowled Warner in the fourth over. After this, McGurk opened the account by hitting a six. He then hit a six on Arshad Khan as well.

Shaw hit fours on consecutive balls of Krunal Pandya in the sixth over, taking Delhi’s score to 62 runs for one wicket in the powerplay. Puran took a brilliant catch of Shaw on the ball of Ravi Bishnoi who came to bowl in the seventh over. Shaw hit six fours in his innings of 32 runs in 22 balls. 

After this, the Lucknow bowlers tightened the noose on the Delhi batsmen for some time, but captain Rishabh Pant increased the run rate a bit by hitting a six and a four on consecutive balls against Bishnoi in the 11th over. With this, he completed the mark of 3000 runs in this league. 

Bishnoi dropped an easy catch of McGurk off Stoinis in the next over and Pant completed the team’s century by hitting two fours in the same over. McGurk celebrated the life given to him by hitting three consecutive sixes in Krunal’s over. He completed his half-century in 31 balls by hitting a four and three runs against Thakur in the 14th over. Pant hit the second six of his innings in the same over, due to which the required run figure fell short of a ball for the first time.

Naveen sent McGurk to the pavilion in the 15th over of the match and then Pant was stumped while trying to get out of the crease on Bishnoi’s ball. Shai Hope (11 not out) and Treston Stubbs (15 not out) then scored the required runs to complete the formality of victory.