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KKR vs LSG: Kolkata Knight Riders’ thrilling win in the Super Over, Rinku Singh’s four ended the game for Lucknow.

By Samira Vishwas

IPL 2026 KKR vs LSG Match 38th Highlight: The 38th match of IPL 2026 and the first Super Over of this season was played at Ekana Stadium in Lucknow, the capital of Uttar Pradesh. This match was between Lucknow Super Giants and Kolkata Knight Riders. This match between the two teams proved to be very exciting, where Kolkata Knight Riders won the match in the Super Over.

Earlier, LSG captain Rishabh Pant won the toss and decided to bowl. Batting first, Kolkata Knight Riders could score 155 runs at the loss of 7 wickets in 20 overs. In response, Lucknow Super Giants scored 155 runs at the loss of 8 wickets in 20 overs, thanks to Mohammed Shami’s six. After which the match became a draw. In such a situation, the decision of this match came in the super over.

Rinku Singh’s fours gave victory to KKR in the super over.

Lucknow Super Giants batted first in the Super Over. Nicholas Pooran and Aiden Markram came on the field as the first two batsmen for the team. At the same time, KKR gave the responsibility of Super Over to Sunil Narine. He clean bowled Nicholas Pooran on the very first ball of the Super Over. After this, captain Rishabh Pant came on the field to bat. After this, on the very third ball, Adam Markram got caught by Rinku Singh while trying to play a big shot. At that time, Rovmv Powell was on the boundary, where he caught the ball and gave it to Rinku Singh.

According to this, Kolkata Knight Riders needed only 2 runs to win in the Super Over. Rinku Singh and Rovman Powell came on the field for KKR to bat during the Super Over. During this, Rinku Singh took the strike and gave the match to KKR by hitting a four on the first ball of LSG bowler Prince Yadav.

Rinku Singh’s hard fought and explosive innings

In this match, Rinku Singh faced difficult circumstances. Kolkata Knight Riders Showed my strength for. He played a brilliant inning of 83 unbeaten runs in 51 balls and took the entire team to a respectable score. Rinku thrilled the audience by hitting 4 consecutive sixes in the last over. His innings included 7 fours and 5 sixes.

Earlier, Kolkata Knight Riders had lost 4 wickets for just 31 runs, due to which the team came under pressure. After this, the score reached 93 runs for 7 wickets in 15 overs and it seemed difficult to make a big score. Tim Seifert was out without opening the account, while Angkrish Raghuvanshi could score only 9 runs. Captain Ajinkya Rahane returned to the pavilion after scoring 10 runs and Rovman Powell only 1 run. Cameron Green played an inning of 34 runs but he too could not take the team to a strong position.

Mohsin took 5 wickets

In this match, Angkrish Raghuvanshi was controversially given out under “Obstructing the Field”, which created a lot of discussion. On the other hand, Lucknow Super Giants fast bowler Mohsin Khan bowled brilliantly and took 5 wickets. He destroyed KKR’s batting by giving just 23 runs in 4 overs. Apart from Mohsin, George Linde was successful in sending one KKR batsman to the pavilion.

Also read: Rinku Singh’s rebellion in Ekana, hit 4 consecutive sixes in the last over, played the biggest innings of his career in Lucknow.

Lucknow’s batting and KKR’s bowling

Started chasing the target of 156 runs before the super over. Lucknow Super Giants Captain Rishabh Pant scored 42 runs. Apart from this, Aiden Markram 31, Ayush Badoni 24, Himmat Singh 19 and finally Mohammed Shami played important innings of 11 runs. At the same time, Vaibhav Arora and Varun Chakraborty took 2-2 wickets for KKR. At the same time, Anukul Roy, Cameron Green, Sunil Narine and Karthik Tyagi took 1 wicket each.

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