Lucknow Supergiants beat Gujarat Titans by 33 runs in the IPL on Thursday. To raise cancer awareness, GT players came to play lavender jerseys. Arshad Khan of the team fell twice while bowling. Meanwhile, Lucknow's Mitchell Marsh became the first foreign player to score a century in the IPL.
LSG vs GT match Moments and Records …
1. Gujarat Titans landed in Lavender Jersey
Gujarat Titans players came to play lavender jerseys for cancer awareness.
On Thursday, Gujarat Titans landed for playing lavender jerseys. The team wore a different color jersey to raise awareness for cancer survivors and cancer victims. In the rest of the matches, the team wears a dark blue jersey.
2. Arshad Khan fell twice while bowling
Arshad Khan fell while bowling twice in a single over.
Arshad Khan, the left arm of Gujarat, fell on the pitch twice while laying his first over. While putting the first ball of the over, his leg slipped and he fell down. The team physio ran to the field to investigate, after some investigation he started bowling again. Even before putting the fifth ball, his leg slipped and he fell to the ground. After which the blood began to drain from his bowling arm. He scored 14 runs from his over.
3. The floods hit a six on the ball first
Nicholas flooded 56, scoring 5 sixes.
Nicholas flooded his innings on his innings by scoring sixes for Lucknow. The last ball of the 10th over Sai Kishore threw it at the good length, played the floods from the front foot and hit the next direction.
4. Rashid over 25 runs over
Rashid Khan, who bowled for the first time in the 12th over, gave 25 runs. Mitchell Marsh hit 3 fours and two sixes in his over. Marsh hit five boundaries in the first five balls and took a single in the last ball.
5. After being injured, Akash went out of the field
Lucknow fast bowler Akash Singh was injured while bowling in the last over of the powerplay. He threw the first ball of the over at the good length. Shubhman Gill played a straight drive, the ball played in the palm of the sky in the Follow Through. The blood began to drain from his hand, after which he could not complete the over. Instead of the sky, he threw the over.
6. The first foreign player to score a marsh century
Mitchell Marsh of Lucknow completed his century off 56 balls. He scored his first century in the IPL. He became the 7th and first foreign player to score a century this season. He scored a six in the 18th over and completed 200 runs for the team.
Mitchell's brother Shaun Marsh scored a century for Punjab Kings in the 2008 IPL. With this, Mitchell and Shaun became the first pair of brothers to score a century in IPL history. Marsh became the only fourth player to score a century for Lucknow. He was dismissed for 117 runs.
7. 9 players completed 500+ runs
On Thursday, Lucknow's Mitchell Marsh and Nicholas flooded in the IPL also completed their 500 runs in the season. With this, 9 players scored 500 or more in the season. For the first time, so many players completed 500+ runs in a single IPL season. Earlier in 2018 and 2023, 8-8 players scored 500+ runs.
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