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Lucknow Super Giants vs Kolkata Knight Riders

By Samira Vishwas

LSG vs KKR : In the 38th match of IPL 2026, Kolkata Knight Riders have defeated Lucknow Super Giants by 10 runs in the Super Over at their home.

In this match, Lucknow Super Giants captain Rishabh Pant won the toss and invited Kolkata Knight Riders captain Ajinkya Rahane to bat first. Thanks to Rinku Singh’s stormy half-century, KKR scored 155 runs for 7 wickets in 20 overs. LSG also scored 155 runs for 8 wickets in 20 overs. Shami took the match into super over by hitting Karthik Tyagi for a six on the last ball of the innings. With this it became the first super over match of IPL 2026.

LSG vs KKR Super Over

Lucknow Super Giants team came to bat first in the Super Over. Aiden Markram and Nicholas Pooran came to bat for LSG. Sunil Narayan bowled the over for KKR. Nairan bowled Puran on the very first ball. After this Rishabh Pant came to the crease. Narayan hit Markram on his third ball with a score of zero, becoming Narayan’s second victim. Lucknow played only 3 balls in the super over and scored only 1 run. This is the lowest score in the first innings in the Super Over in IPL.

Rinku Singh and Andre Russell came to the crease in the Super Over to chase the target of 2 runs for Kolkata Knight Riders. And for Lucknow

Lucknow had a bad start

In this match, Mitchell Marsh and Aiden Markram came to open the innings for Lucknow Super Giants. Vaibhav Arora sent Marsh to the pavilion on the personal score of 2 runs. After this, captain Rishabh Pant along with Markram took the team’s score to 65 runs. Lucknow got the second blow in the form of Markram. He became the victim of Cameron Green after scoring 31 runs in 27 balls with 2 fours and 1 six.

Rishabh Pant played an inning of 42 runs

Captain Rishabh Pant played a brilliant innings for the team but missed scoring a half-century by just 8 runs. Pant played an inning of 42 runs in 38 balls with 4 fours and 1 six. His innings was ended by Sunil Narayan at the hands of Tim Seaford. After this, Nicholas Puran became the victim of Varun Chakraborty after scoring 9 runs in 12 balls. LSG got the fourth blow in the form of Mukul Chaudhary 1. Anukul Roy got him caught out by Rinku Singh.

Shami hit sixes and the match reached super over

For Lucknow, Ayush Badoni played an inning of 19 runs with 2 sixes in 19 balls. Himmat Singh, who came to the crease as an impact player, played an innings of 19 runs in 10 balls with 2 fours and 1 six. LSG needed 17 runs to win in the last 6 balls. In such a situation, when 7 runs were required to win in 2 balls, Karthik Tyagi bowled a dot ball.

Shami had to take the match into super over by hitting a six on the last ball and he took the match into super over by hitting a six on the last ball of Karthik. Vaibhav Arora and Varun Chakraborty took 2-2 wickets for Kolkata Knight Riders. Whereas Anukul Roy, Karthik Tyagi, Sunil Narayan and Cameron Green took 1-1 wicket.

Rinku Singh created a stir for KKR

before this For Kolkata Knight Riders, Rinku Singh played a stormy inning of 83 runs in 51 balls with 7 fours and 5 sixes and took the team to a respectable score. Apart from them, Ajinkya Rahan contributed 10 runs, Cameron Green contributed 34 runs in 21 balls, Ramandeep Singh contributed 6 runs and Sunil Narayan contributed 4 runs. Whereas for Lucknow, Mohsin Khan took 5 wickets for 23 runs in 4 overs.

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