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'RCB ko kisi ny baddua de howi kya' - Fans thrilled as LSG hand RCB their second consecutive defeat in IPL 2023

The cricket fans were also thrilled following this nail-biting encounter between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Lucknow Super Giants; they

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Royal Challengers Bangalore and Lucknow Super Giants locked horns in the 15th match of the ongoing Indian Premier League 2023. The hosts’ skipper KL Rahul won the flip of the coin and decided to bowl first at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru. Batting first, RCB posted a big total of 212 runs for the loss of only two wickets in the allotted 20 overs.

Later in the second innings, Lucknow Super Giants managed to cross the line on the last ball of the 20th over and scored 212 runs for the loss of nine wickets and one won the match in a thrilling style by the rarest margin of one wicket.

The cricket fans were also thrilled following this nail-biting encounter between RCB and LSG. They took to Twitter to express their reactions, emotions, and responses to this amazing encounter between two powerhouse teams of IPL.

Here’s how fans reacted after the nail-biting thriller between RCB and LSG:

Talking about the entire action of the match, the top three of RCB managed to smash three amazing half-centuries. Star openers, Virat Kohli and Faf du Plessis played the crucial knocks of 61 and 79 runs respectively; the duo also provided a strong start to RCB by scoring 96 runs for the first wicket. Other than these two, the star batting all-rounder Glenn Maxwell played a swashbuckling knock of 59 runs off just 29 balls with three boundaries and six sixes to his name.

Mark Wood and Amit Mishra were the only bowlers to scalp one wicket each for LSG in the first innings.

Later on, while chasing the target, the visitors Super Giants were in a trouble at a moment when they lost three wickets only on the score of 23 runs in 4 overs. But Marcus Stoinis took the charge with a blistering knock of 65 runs off just 30 balls with six boundaries and five sixes with the wood.

Following Stoinis, it was Nicholas Pooran who stunned everyone with his sensational knock of 62 runs off just 19 balls with four boundaries and seven sixes on his credit.

Eventually, LSG crossed the line at the last ball of the last over to win the match by a very close margin of one wicket and register their second successive win in the tournament.

Indian Premier League 2023 Royal Challengers Bangalore RCB vs LSG