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For the 2nd clip this season, Mitchell Marsh lit up the nighttime entity astatine the Ekana Stadium arsenic his marauding 38-ball 90 (9x4, 7x6) powered his broadside to a thumping seven-wicket triumph implicit Chennai Super Kings successful an IPL 2026 brushwood successful Lucknow connected Friday (May 15, 2026).
A week aft his 111 against Royal Challengers Bengaluru astatine the aforesaid venue, Marsh unleashed his brutal powerfulness hitting connected a hapless Super Kings gait onslaught and made abbreviated enactment of the 188-run target.
At the halfway stage, Ruturaj Gaikwad’s men would person fancied their chances. The CSK bowlers, though, failed to deed the close lengths and paid the price.
Marsh started by picking Mukesh Choudhary disconnected his pads for a mates of boundaries successful the archetypal implicit to acceptable the tone. Then successful the 5th over, helium chopped loose, smashing Anshul Kamboj for 4 maximums and a four. The LSG opener charged down and smacked Kamboj implicit screen disconnected the archetypal ball, and it was capable to rattle the pacer.
Kamboj followed it up by feeding innocuous short-pitched deliveries, which were duly dispatched implicit the ropes.
In the last implicit of the PowerPlay, Marsh did not spare compatriot Spencer Johnson, swatting him implicit leg-side to contention to his half-century disconnected conscionable 21 balls.
By the clip the Australian was dismissed, moving retired astatine the non-striker’s end, helium had brought the equation to astir a run-a-ball. Nicholas Pooran closed it retired successful benignant erstwhile helium meted retired a akin attraction to Kamboj by punishing him for 4 consecutive sixes arsenic LSG cantered location with 20 balls to spare.
For CSK, the nonaccomplishment ended its three-match winning streak and, much importantly, dealt a immense stroke to its playoff chances.
Earlier, Super Kings managed 187 for five, riding connected Kartik Sharma’s good 71 (42b, 6x4, 5x6) aft being enactment successful to bat.
Akash Singh (4-0-26-3), playing his archetypal crippled of the season, was awesome with his back-of-length deliveries, scalping 3 wickets successful an unchanged four-over burst.
CSK could lone muster 37 for 2 successful the PowerPlay. Even arsenic his teammates struggled, Kartik demonstrated his temperament successful the mode helium adapted to the challenging conditions. His changeable enactment was connected the money, evidenced by his well-timed pulled sixes disconnected Prince Yadav arsenic helium guided his squad to a decent total. However, Marsh had different ideas.
