CSK vs LSG: Urvil Patel’s innings overshadowed Josh Inglis, Chennai took out the power of Lucknow.

Chennai Super Kings Beat Lucknow Super Giants: In the high voltage match of IPL 2026, Chennai Super Kings defeated Lucknow Supergiants by 5 wickets. Josh English’s brilliance was seen at the historic Chepauk ground, which was overshadowed by Urvil Patel’s innings. With this win, the Yellow Army has reached 5th position in the points table with 12 points, while LSG is at the bottom of the table with 6 points, and there is no chance of them reaching the playoffs.

Josh English’s blast

Chennai Super Kings captain Ruturaj Gaikwad won the toss and invited Lucknow Supergiants to bat first. Openers Josh English and Mitchell Marsh together gave a great start to LSG, and made a partnership of 77 runs for the first wicket. Anshul Kamboj made Marsh his victim on a personal score of 10 runs, but Marsh stormed the field, this Australian batsman played a explosive innings and scored 85 runs in 33 balls with the help of 10 fours and 6 sixes, during this his strike rate was 257.57, he was sent to the pavilion by Jamie Overton.

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LSG score crosses 200

However, Nicholas Pooran, who came at number three, once again flopped, this Caribbean batsman was dismissed by Noor Ahmed on a personal score of just 1 run. Then Rishabh Pant (15 runs), Aiden Markram (6 runs) and Angkrish Raghuvanshi (18 runs) were dismissed cheaply. Shahbaz Ahmed made an important contribution of 43 unbeaten runs with the help of 3 fours and 3 sixes in 25 balls. Himmat Singh scored 17 runs, with the help of which Lucknow’s score reached 203/8 in 20 overs. Talking about bowling, Jamie Overturn took 3 wickets, Anshul Kamboj took 2 wickets and Noor Ahmed took 1 wicket.

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urvil patel’s storm

While chasing the huge target of 204 runs, opener Sanju Samson for Chennai Super Kings scored 28 runs in 14 balls at a strike rate of 200.00, which included 3 fours and 2 sixes. While he was scoring fast runs, Digvesh Rathi clean bowled him. Despite this, the pace of runs of the Yellow Army did not stop, Urvil Patel, who came at number three, thrashed the LSG batsmen, he scored 65 runs with the help of 23 balls, 2 fours and 8 sixes, in which the strike rate was 282.60. He got caught out by Shahbaz Ahmed at the hands of Avesh Khan.

CSK’s great victory

CSK captain Ruturaj Gaikwad scored 42 runs in 28 balls with the help of 3 fours and 2 sixes, but he was clean bowled by Shahbaz Ahmed. Dewald Brevis was clean bowled by Digvesh Rathi on the personal score of 10 runs. Apart from this, Karthik Sharma was able to score only 20 runs when Avesh Khan hunted him. However, the Yellow Army chased the total score in time, as Shivam Dubey (15 runs) and Prashant Veer (17 runs) took the score to 208/5 in 19.2 overs.

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