IPL 2026, LSG vs CSK 59th Match Match Report, May 15, 2026

Lucknow Super Giants 188 for 3 (Marsh 90, Inglis 36, Pooran 32*) beat Chennai Super Kings 187 for five (Kartik 71, Dube 32, Akash 3-26) by seven wickets

They gained by seven wickets with 20 balls to spare, but it surely nonetheless wasn’t sufficient to pull them up from the foot of the factors desk.

Akash Singh notable present

Only 4 of Akash’s 18 balls within the powerplay have been fuller than size, based on ESPNcricinfo’s logs. His impeccable lengths have been central to LSG proscribing CSK to 37 for two in six overs. Akash bowled 4 overs on the trot and proved his level.

Kartik reveals his vary

All informed, Kartik took Shahbaz for 30 off 15 balls earlier than the spinner had him caught at long-on within the sixteenth over. Kartik confirmed that he might additionally reduce it in opposition to excessive tempo as effectively when he backed away in opposition to Mayank Yadav and scythed a 144kph supply to the appropriate of level for 4.

Kartik reached his half-century off 35 balls and hushed Ekana together with his finger-on-the-lip celebration. When he was wanting good for extra, he fell for 71 off 42 balls.

Dube gives the ultimate flourish

Marsh comes out swinging

Marsh set the tempo for the chase when he walked down the monitor to Mukesh Choudhary and picked him for 4. Mukesh ended up conceding 15 runs in his first over and was taken out of the assault.

At the beginning of the third over, Marsh charged at Anshul Kamboj, manufactured swinging room and cracked him by the covers. He threw Kamboj off his signature arduous size and he saved digging it shorter with out having sufficient peace to hassle Marsh. In the penultimate over of the powerplay, Marsh lined Kamboj up for 4 sixes and a 4. Marsh did not spare his Australian compatriot Spencer Johnson, who was on CSK debut, both, bashing him for 3 fours and a six within the sixth over.

In the absence of Jamie Overton, whose IPL has been reduce quick by harm, CSK lacked a middle-overs enforcer. They tried Gurjapneet Singh, however Marsh superior at him too and launched him over the covers. Josh Inglis was simply content material to experience in Marsh’s slipstream.

Pooran finishes it off for LSG

CSK lastly stopped the opening stand on 135 within the twelfth over when Choudhary tricked Inglis with a slower offcutter. He was dismissed for 36 off 32 balls and Marsh was run out on the non-striker’s finish in unlucky trend, with Mukesh deflecting a push from Nicholas Pooran again onto the stumps in his followthrough.

Soon after Johnson knocked Abdul Samad over for seven off three balls, however Pooran rushed LSG house with 4 successive sixes off Kamboj, leaving CSK’s finest bowler this season nursing figures of two.4-0-63-0.