'Bhaiya ji apun bhaukal macha diye' - Fans laud Marcus Stoinis for his terrific half-century against Mumbai Indians in IPL 2023

Australia and Lucknow Super Giants all-rounder Marcus Stoinis played a handy knock in the ongoing game against Mumbai Indians. In the game, the visitors, MI won the toss and elected to bowl first. Jason Behrendorff took two back-to-back wickets of Deepak Hooda, and Prerak Mankad in the third over. Piyush Chawla took the wicket of Quinton de Kock in the seventh over.

At 35/3, the likes of skipper Krunal Pandya and Stoinis put their hand up. They put together 82 runs for the fourth wicket. Both players managed to rotate the strike and also hit boundaries on occasion. At the end of the 16th over, Pandya retired after getting injured. After this, the likes of Stoinis and Nicholas Pooran scored close to 60 runs to take the team to 177/3.

Talking about the innings played by Stoinis, he scored 89 off 47 balls unbeaten including eight sixes and four fours. It was a wonderful innings given the kind of wicket. The fans have been praising the Australia all-rounder.

Innings of the IPL from Marcus Stoinis. Absolute crime to concede 69 runs in five overs on this pitch. Big loss loading..this could be season ending.

— Anuj Nitin Prabhu (@APTalksCricket) May 16, 2023

Fifty for Marcus Stoinis, a brilliant knock under tough situation for Lucknow. pic.twitter.com/UqU3Izz1XZ

— Johns. (@CricCrazyJohns) May 16, 2023

Sheer power x Perfect timing of the assault - Marcus Stoinis has played a bloody blinder #LSGvsMI

— Jatin Sapru (@jatinsapru) May 16, 2023

This is how Marcus Stoinis saw Mumbai Indians today pic.twitter.com/cDdgvqD0eF

— Ankit Pathak 🇮🇳 (@ankit_acerbic) May 16, 2023

Marcus Stoinis single handedly destroying MI, literally. pic.twitter.com/oHXLWggPfe

— Sagar (@sagarcasm) May 16, 2023

Marcus Stoinis against Chris Jordan:

6,0,4,4,6,4 - 24 runs from the 18th over. pic.twitter.com/rTArGmnXoP

— Mufaddal Vohra (@mufaddal_vohra) May 16, 2023

#Marcusstoinis 🔥#mivslsg

— Kadir ali (@Kadiral88316646) May 16, 2023

#LSGvsMIStoinis owning Jordan and changing match for his team in one over we have seen this before 🔥💉 #LSGvsMI #MarcusStoinis pic.twitter.com/3znM5pjA5K

— 🄼🄰🅈🄰🄽🄺 🄺🅄🄼🄰🅁 🅈🄰🄳🄰🅅 (@MayankkumarYa15) May 16, 2023

Such an innings 💥
That too at Lucknow's pitch.
89* (47).#MarcusStoinis #LSGvMI #IPL2023 pic.twitter.com/P1phqjbgAz

— Masum (@masum_twt) May 16, 2023

Marcus Stoinis here and Rashid Khan that day. Both were missing from Team Meeting.

— Abhi⚒️ (@abhi_backup07) May 16, 2023