The IPL 2025 encounter between Lucknow Tremendous Giants (LSG) and Mumbai Indians (MI) on the Ekana Cricket Stadium on Friday evening witnessed a robust six from Suryakumar Yadav resulted in an unlucky incident the place a ball lady was hit on the chest on the boundary.
The incident occurred within the fifth over of MI’s chase, with Avesh Khan bowling to Suryakumar, who had simply two runs off his first six balls. On the ultimate supply of the over, Avesh bowled a back-of-length ball outdoors off, and Suryakumar walked throughout the crease earlier than smashing the ball over deep sq. leg for a six. Sadly, the ball hit a lady positioned close to the boundary rope as she tried to catch it. Nonetheless, the lady appeared high-quality and handed the ball again to the LSG fielder.
In the meantime, the sport started with the guests opting to bowl first after successful the toss. Hardik Pandya and his males managed to limit LSG to 203/8 of their allotted 20 overs. Mitchell Marsh hammered the MI bowlers together with his 60 off 31 balls, adopted by a 53 from Aiden Markram. Regardless of a strong top-order efficiency, it was Pandya’s maiden five-wicket haul which helped MI come again within the recreation.
Within the chase, Mumbai misplaced openers Will Jacks and Ryan Rickelton cheaply. Nonetheless, teen Naman Dhir stored the scoreboard ticking with a quickfire 46 off 24 earlier than falling within the ninth over. After that Suryakumar steadied the innings earlier than accelerating in his type. Nonetheless, ultimately, Mumbai Indians may attain solely 191/5, dropping the sport by 12 runs.
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