The Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) were up against the Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) in the 15th match of the Indian Premier League 2024 (IPL 2024) on April 2, 2024 at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru.
Bengaluru won the toss and elected to bowl first in the match at home. RCB and LSG made notable changes to their playing with the home team bringing in Reece Topley for Alzarri Joseph and the KL Rahul & Co. replacing injured Mohsin Khan with Yash Thakur.
Rahul returned directly to the playing XI after playing the last match as an impact player. He joined Quinton de Kock at the top and saw the latter demolish the RCB bowlers in the powerplay. Rahul was as usual quite cautious in his approach but De Kock’s blitz helped LSG register a score of 54/1 at the end of the powerplay. Super Giants also lost their skipper on the 3rd ball of the 6th over for 20.
Devdutt Padikkal next came to bat and he couldn’t get going, which led to LSG’s NRR going down and RCB making a comeback in the match. Padikkal’s miserable innings was brought to an end in the 9th over and the top-order batsman was dismissed for an 11-ball 6. At the end of 10 overs, LSG were at 84/2.
The arrival of Marcus Stoinis to the middle provided the much-needed run rate boost to LSG as he played aggressively and slammed 24 runs off 15 balls during his partnership with Quinton de Kock of 56 runs.
The opening batsman De Kock fell short of his century as he was dismissed by Topley for 81. In the end, Nicholas Pooran played an explosive innings of 40 runs to guide LSG to a great total of 181/5.
Chasing the target in the match, Royal Challengers Bengaluru were off to a poor start in the match as they lost the KGF – Kohli, Glenn, and Faf – inside the powerplay. If that was not enough, Cameron Green also got out in the 8th over.
Virat Kohli (22) was dismissed by Manimaran Siddharth, Faf du Plessis (19) got run out, while the pace-bowling sensation Mayank Yadav cleaned up Glenn Maxwell and Cameron Green. Then, Rajat Patidar and Anuj Rawat had a small 36-run partnership that helped RCB stay in the game but the duo were not able to play big innings.
In the end, Mahipal Lomror slammed 33 runs off 13 balls but he didn’t get the support from the other end and RCB were bundled out for 153. For LSG, the top performer in the bowling department was once again Mayank Yadav, who finished with figures of 3/14. He broke his his own record of 155.8 kmph for the fastest ball of IPL 2024 in the match as he bowled 156.7 kmph.
Here’s How Fans On X Reacted After RCB vs LSG IPL 2024 Match:
While chasing 182, RCB couldn’t even chase Mayank Yadav’s top speed
— Sagar (@sagarcasm) April 2, 2024
A huge credit for KL Rahul, the leader.
– He is guiding a young bowling group, the changes, fielding placing and putting pressure on opposition ⭐ pic.twitter.com/m2lCA6mmN7
— Johns. (@CricCrazyJohns) April 2, 2024
दो दोस्त आसपास बैठे हैं….#LSGvRCB #MumbaiIndians pic.twitter.com/8DZ5U8GXf8
— Abhishek Tripathi / अभिषेक त्रिपाठी (@abhishereporter) April 2, 2024
– Beat PBKS by 21 runs.
– Beat RCB by 28 runs.– After first lose Lucknow Supergiants comeback brilliantly well under KL Rahul and won next 2 matches..!!! 🔥 pic.twitter.com/gX4fva8Hry
— CricketMAN2 (@ImTanujSingh) April 2, 2024
Just 21 and touching 156, Mayank Yadav is already is the find of this season. Beating Bairstow, Maxwell, Green with raw pace – preserve him, he is precious.
— Mohammad Kaif (@MohammadKaif) April 2, 2024
RCB ~ 1st Team to get all out in 2024 IPL#RCBvsLSG
— 𝑺𝒉𝒆𝒃𝒂𝒔 (@Shebas_10dulkar) April 2, 2024
Batting, bowling, fielding – @LucknowIPL outplayed @RCBTweets in all departments! Great win LSG #IPL2024 #LSGvRCB
— Robin Aiyuda Uthappa (@robbieuthappa) April 2, 2024
RCB should play bold and get Will Jacks in the XI. A match winner like him should not be benched.
— Sarang Bhalerao (@bhaleraosarang) April 2, 2024
Can FDP continue to be the skipper? The time may be running out for him! #cricket #RCBvLSG #IPL2024
— Chandresh Narayanan (@chand2579) April 2, 2024
Sorry performance in bowling, batting and fielding tonight, RCB looking most mediocre team so far this season
— Cricketwallah (@cricketwallah) April 2, 2024
RCB at homeground: #RCBvsLSG pic.twitter.com/XCgRoO1VSb
— Himanshu Pareek (@Sports_Himanshu) April 2, 2024
IPL will be very competitive this year. All the teams very dangerous. MI will make a comeback. At this stage I still think CSK will defend their title. 🦁
— Albie Morkel (@albiemorkel) April 2, 2024
RCB ~ 1st Team to get all out in 2024 IPL#RCBvsLSG
— 𝑺𝒉𝒆𝒃𝒂𝒔 (@Shebas_10dulkar) April 2, 2024
Simple thing in cricket – A side has to bat and also bowl in a match.. Oh, you know if you know..#justsaying#cricket#IPL
— WV Raman (@wvraman) April 2, 2024
Seriously man… In what world did I even decide to become an RCB fan. Ugh.
— Jaanvi🏏 (@that_shutterbug) April 2, 2024
Will Jacks can’t be ignored any longer @RCBTweets need to alter things up it’s not collectively working . Play offs is a pipe dream currently let alone @IPL title #RCBvLSG
— John Wright (@johnwright15) April 2, 2024
LSG win again at M Chinnaswamy.
GG from Vizag: pic.twitter.com/sdXLp4n0Rs
— Saurabh Malhotra (@MalhotraSaurabh) April 2, 2024
Sorry performance in bowling, batting and fielding tonight, RCB looking most mediocre team so far this season
— Cricketwallah (@cricketwallah) April 2, 2024
You must be sick if you are enjoying this RCB downfall
Me: pic.twitter.com/MxgA90wTf9
— Eternal knight (@shamzziiuuuu) April 2, 2024
If choking is an olympic sport, RCB will be a silver medalist every time.
— Xavier Uncle (@xavierunclelite) April 2, 2024
RCB, MI and CSK in points table pic.twitter.com/ixOMAqhSWg
— Desi Bhayo (@desi_bhayo88) April 2, 2024
