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Lucknow Supergiants defeated Gujarat Titans by 33 runs in IPL on Thursday. GT’s players went on to play wearing lavender jersey to give cancer awareness. Arshad Khan of the team fell 2 times while bowling. At the same time, Mitchell Marsh of Lucknow became the first foreign player to score this IPL century.
LSG Vs GT Match Moments and Records …
1. Gujarat Titans came out playing in lavender jersey
For cancer awareness, players of Gujarat Titans came out wearing lavender jersey.
The Gujarat Titans started playing the match wearing a lavender jersey on Thursday. The team wore a different colored jersey to spread awareness about the victims recovering cancer and cancer. The team wears dark blue color jersey in the remaining matches.
2. Arshad Khan fell 2 times while bowling
Arshad Khan fell down while bowling 2 times in a single over.
Arshad Khan, the left arm of Gujarat, fell on the pitch 2 times while throwing his first over. His leg slipped while throwing the first ball of the over and he fell down. Team Physio came to check them, after some time they started bowling again. Even before throwing the fifth ball, his leg slipped and he fell to the ground. After which blood started coming out of his bowling arm. 14 runs were scored from his over.
3. Puran hit a six on the first ball
Nicholas Puran scored 56 runs with 5 sixes.
Nicholas Puran, who came out to bat on number-3 from Lucknow, started his innings by hitting a six. The last ball of the 10th over Sai Kishore threw on the good length, Puran played the shot from the front foot and hit a six in the front direction.
4. Rashid threw over 25 runs
Rashid Khan spent 36 runs in his 2 overs.
Rashid Khan, who came to bowling for the first time in the 12th over from Gujarat, spent 25 runs. Mitchell Marsh hit 3 fours and 2 sixes in his over. Marsh hit the five boundary at the first 5 balls and took a single off the last ball.
5. Akash went out of the ground after injury
Lucknow fast bowler Akash Singh was injured during bowling in the last over of Powerplay. He threw the first ball of the over on the good length. Shubman Gill played a strat drive, the ball followed in the palm of the sky. He started bleeding from his hand, after which he could not complete the over. Avesh Khan threw the over instead of Akash.
6. First foreigner to score a marsh century
Mitchell Marsh of Lucknow completed the century off 56 balls. He scored his first century in the IPL. He became the overall 7th and the first player from abroad to score a century this season. He also completed 200 runs of the team by hitting a six in the 18th over.
Mitchell’s brother Sean Marsh has scored a century for Punjab Kings in the 2008 IPL. With this, Mitchell and Sean became the first pair of brothers to score a century in IPL history. Marsh became the fourth player to score a century for Lucknow. He was dismissed by 117 runs.
7. 9 players completed 500+ runs
On Thursday, Mitchell Marsh and Nicholas Puran of Lucknow also completed their 500 runs in the season. With this, 9 players scored 500 or more runs in the season. For the first time in a season of IPL, so many players completed 500+ runs. Earlier in 2018 and 2023, 8-8 players scored 500+ runs.