Pant-Avesh Duo Snatches Another Victory From The Jaws Of RR

IPL 2025 RR vs LSG Match Highlights: The Lucknow Super Giants have recently gone through a rough patch after their stunning start to the season with the bat. The likes of Nicholas Pooran, the orange cap holder for the season, and Mitchell Marsh, his deputy, could not gather runs in recent games, and hence, the Super Giants have struggled to score quick runs.

The Rajasthan Royals will be disgusted after their last match defeat against the Delhi Capitals, when a win was almost converted into a disheartening loss in a super-over. A series of run-outs and mess-ups with some shocking decisions ruled out the Royals’ winning chance. They will be up for an opportunity in their next game on their home ground.

Lucknow Super Giants come from a loss against the Chennai Super Kings in the battle of the two greatest Indian wicket-keepers, one from Gen Gold and the other from Gen Bold. Pant was seen in good touch in that game and would look to back himself up with a decent leadership role for LSG to take them further into the top 4 in the points table.

IPL 2025 RR vs LSG Match Highlights

IPL 2025 RR vs LSG Match Highlights: Samad’s cameo add vital runs; might come handy if LSG win the match

The Lucknow Super Giants were troubled early on this occasion as well, just like they were in the game against CSK. Mitchell Marsh and Nicholas Pooran fell early within the powerplay, and Pant also fell immediately after the field restrictions were lifted, as he was once again short of runs.

Aiden Markram has been LSG’s rescue man in such situations, and once again, the Protea kept his composure, stepping up for his side alongside impact player Ayush Badoni, LSG’s most trusted uncapped Indian aid. Markram and Badoni built on a big partnership in the middle overs, with Markram’s 66 and Badoni also getting to his first 50+ score of the season.

David Miller and Abdul Samad were kept silent by unavoidable and irresistible bowling from Tushar Deshpande and Jofra Archer at the death, while Samad kept an eye and finally got to his top game in the 20th over against Sandeep Sharma, who has gone for runs in recent games. Samad smashed 4 sixes off Sandeep in the final over, thus adding vital 27 runs to the team total, which took LSG to a very respectable total of 180.

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The Rajasthan Royals have not been the best side while chasing totals, and after the cameo from Abdul Samad, the 180 on the Jaipur track seemed to be a tough nut for RR batters to crack, especially in the absence of their skipper and most experienced batter, Sanju Samson.

Dravid went with something daring: 14-year-old Vaibhav Suryavanshi made his debut for the Rajasthan Royals alongside Yashasvi Jaiswal. Batting alongside Jaiswal, he put on 80+ runs for the first wicket before falling to a quirky stumping from wicket-keeper Pant after having scored 34 off just 20 balls on his IPL debut.

Jaiswal played the most exciting innings, scoring another half-century. He fired in with a 74-run knock before Avesh Khan knocked his middle stump off in the 18th over. Parag too fell in the very over, though Hetmyer’s back-to-back boundaries in the 19th over helped Royals seal a similar situation as the last game, with 9 runs left in the final over. The bowler is a new one. Avesh Khan now defends the 9 runs again, giving away just 6 runs with the wicket of Hetmyer and a missed catching chance as well.

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