LSG vs CSK Highlights, IPL 2026: Marsh, Pooran fireworks helps Lucknow chase 188 vs Chennai at Ekana

Mukesh Choudhary comes back into the attack. FOUR! Mukul walks down the track and floats the ball on off over backward point for a boundary. 8 off this over as now they need 24 off 24. 

LSG: 164/3 in 16 overs

Gurjapneet Singh returns. FOUR! Mukul Choudhary gets a lucky boundary with an inside edge before Nicholas Pooran ends the over with another FOUR to take 10 off the over. LSG past 150 as well. 

LSG: 156/3 in 15 overs

Spencer Johnson with his last over. SIX! Abdul Samad gets enough bat and heaves it over long-on to welcome Johnson with a maximum. WICKET! Another wicket for CSK! They would feel they are back into the contest. Samad is cleaned up with a delivery that comes in for the right-hander. Mukul Choudhary is in at No. 5. He gets off the mark with a single. 8 off the over. 

Abdul Samad b Spencer Johnson 7(3)

LSG: 146/3 in 14 overs

Abdul Samad is in at No. 4. Noor Ahmed completes a top spell, giving just two runs off his final over. 

LSG: 138/2 in 13 overs 

Mukesh Choudhary returns to attack. Inglis stats the over with a single. FOUR! Marsh pounces on yet another short ball! Another pull shot to deep mid-wicket for a boundary. WICKET! Finally, a breakthrough for Chennai Super Kings! Slower delivery on off, Inglis mishits to Urvil at sweeper cover. Nicholas Pooran is the new man in. OUT! Two in two for CSK and Marsh falls this time! How unlucky could you be to be dismissed this way? Pooran drives the ball straight down the ground, the ball brushes the hands of Mukesh and hits the stumps at the non-strikers' end, where Marsh is out of the crease. Marsh is depreived of a well-deserved century here. 

Josh Inglis c Urvil Patel b Mukesh Choudhary 36(32); Mitchell Marsh run out (Mukesh Choudhary) 90(38)  

LSG: 136/2 in 12 overs

Noor Ahmed continues. Another quiet over from Noor as five comes from it. 

LSG: 127/0 in 11 overs

Gurjapneet Singh continues. FOUR! Full, slower delivery in the middle, and Inglis pounces on it to find the vacant gap at deep mid-wicket. FOUR! Marsh moves to 80s with a boundary off the last delivery as Gurjapneet is fired up with himself. 

LSG: 124/0 in 10 overs

Noor Ahmad continues. This is the first over in the last 8 overs that has seen no boundaries being scored. Noor gives away just five singles from his over.

LSG: 114/0 in 9 overs

Gurjapneet Singh comes into the attack. Marsh smokes a FOUR and a SIX off Gurjapneet, taking LSG past the 100-run mark inside the eighth over. 14 off the over. Required rate less than 7 now.

LSG: 109/0 in 8 overs

In a desperate need for a wicket, CSK brings in spinner Noor Ahmed. SIX! Marsh is in no mood to spare anyone today as he smokes another maximum, nailing the pull over deep mid-wicket. Nine off Noor's first over.

LSG: 95/0 in 7 overs

Spencer Johnson with his third straight over. FOUR! Inglis joins the party. Starts the over with a boundary, hitting the short ball over the backward point. Mitchell Marsh hits FOUR, FOUR and a SIX in three consecutive deliveries to reach his half-century in just 21 deliveries. LSG are off to a wonderful start, managing 86 in the PowerPlay in the chase of 188. 

LSG: 86/0 in 6 overs

Anshul Kamboj continues. SIX! Marsh shimmies down the track, lofts the length ball on off over covers. SIX AGAIN! Back of length delivery from Kamboj in the middle, dispatched deep into the deep mid-wicket fence with a pull shot. High and handsome! THIRD SIX! Bang bang bang! Marsh is making the most of this over. Short again, pulls again and gets the same result. FOURTH SIX! 6, 6, 6, 6! Marsh on fire! Make it four sixes in a row. Another pull which goes deep into the stands at deep square leg. Kamboj survives the scare of being hit for six sixes in an over after he bowls the full ball which Marsh could only hit down the ground for a dot. FOUR! A bondar to end the over as 28 comes from this over. 

LSG: 67/0 in 5 overs

Spencer Johnson continues. SIX! Inglis gets into the act. He heaves the length delivery on off towards the leg-side for his first maximum of the innings. Johnson quickly adjusts his length to give just two off the last five balls. 

LSG: 39/0 in 4 overs

Anshul Kamboj replaces Mukesh Choudhary. FOUR! Top shot from Inglis! Plays through the line and nails his cover drive. FOUR! Marsh pounces on the length ball on off, slashing it towards cover-point after Inglis manages to take three runs on the second delivery. Nice recovery from Kamboj to end with three dots. 

LSG: 31/0 in 3 overs

Playing his first game of the season, Spencer Johnson to bowl his first over. He has beaten both Marsh and Inglis on multiple occasions as batters copped blows in an over that saw Johnson bowling two wides. Five runs from the second over.

LSG: 20/0 in 2 overs 

Mukesh Choudhary has the new ball. Marsh is on strike. And Mukesh starts with a wide down the leg after Marsh misses the flick. Mukesh is finding it difficult to get into the rhythm as he bowls two more deliveries on leg, both flicked fine by Marsh to get two back-to-back FOURS! A single puts Inglis on strike. Inglis shuffles across and looks to play a scoop but misses it as the ball races away to the fence off the pads for a LEG BYE FOUR! A short ball hits Inglish on his wrist by a sharp bouncer from Mukesh, which results in a leg bye single.15 off the opening over. 

LSG: 15/0 in 1 over

Gurjapneet Singh comes in as an impact sub for Chennai Super Kings in place of Shivam Dube. Josh Inglis comes in as an impact sub for LSG and opens with Mitch Marsh.

Prince Yadav to bowl the final over. Low full toss, Prashant Veer gets a two down the ground. A bouncer to follow, Veer awkwardly gets bat on it for a single. SIX! Dube with the finishing touches! Another attempted yorker ends up being a low full toss in the middle, and Dube isn't missing these. Clobbers it over deep square leg for half a dozen runs. FOUR NOW! Dube is the man for Chennai and he is making sure his bowlers have enough runs on the board to fight. Half volley outside the off-stump and Dube throws his hands on it to get a boundary over backward point. FOUR AGAIN! Thumps it down the ground. SIX TO FINISH IT OFF! He muscles the short ball over deep mid-wicket with a pull. Lovely finish from Dube, and he takes Chennai to 187/5 in 20 overs.

CSK: 187/5 in 20 overs

Mohammed Shami bowls the penultimate over of the innings. FOUR! Clever from Prashant Veer. Shami comes from around the wicket, looking to use the angle across for his benefit but Veer shuffles across and scoops the full over at short fine leg for a boundary to start the over. Shami goes over the wicket and bowls a lovely bouncer to beat Veer. The batter manages a single off the following delivery. FOUR! Shami bowls another short one but Dube gets a good connection this time to pull it over the right deep mid-wicket. A couple of singles means 11 come from this over. 

LSG: 164/5 in 19 overs

Mayank Yadav to finish off his spell. He bowls a couple of dots to start things in this over. All Shivam Dube and Prashant Veer could manage was a two and a couple of singles off the next three deliveries. Mayank nails the wide yorker to give just four runs from his last over.  Just 11 runs off the last two overs.

CSK: 153/5 in 18 overs

Prashant Veer is in at No. 7. Prince Yadav returns to action. Bowls a couple of wides but still gives just seven from his over. 

CSK: 149/5 in 17 overs

Shahbaz Ahmed with his final over. Dube starts with a single. SIX! Kartik Sharma just don't want to stop today. Full, slower delivery in the slot for him and he makes no mistake of not latching onto a delivery that was screaming for the right treatment. Kartik brings out his slog sweep to hit the ball over deep mid-wicket. FOUR NOW! Runs coming in for Chennai. Poor delivery from Shahbaz, down the leg and Kartik flicks it fine for a boundary. FOUR MORE! Third boundary in a row for Kartik and he is changing the game for Chennai. OUT! Finally, Shahbaz gets his man! He goes for 15 in this over but gets the last laugh! Kartik, while looking to clear the fence once again, finds Markram at long-on.

Kartik Sharma c Aiden Markram b Shahbaz Ahmed 71(42)

CSK: 142/5 in 16 overs
 

Mohammed Shami returns to the attack. SIX! Wow, some shot to get to his half-century! Full ball on off and Katik reaches to the line of the delivery and plays an inside out for a maximum. A single puts Brevis on strike. OUT! Shami comes up with a response quickly! A sharp bouncer to cramp Brevis, who rushes into his pull shot and finds Akash Singh at fine leg. Shivam Dube is the new man in and gets off the mark with a single. FOUR! Another good shot from Kartik, who cuts the shot ball fine, ending the over with another boundary. 

CSK: 127/4 in 15 overs

Third over for Shahbaz Ahmed. Five singles and a two fetch Chennai seven runs from this over. 

CSK: 115/3 in 14 overs

Prince Yadav returns. Three singles from the opening three deliveries. SIX! Kartik stays on backfoot, dispatches the length ball over deep mid-wicket with a good-looking pull shot. SIX AGAIN! Kartik is on the move here. He has had enough with singles and doubles. Short ball again, on the body, he sviwel pulls this time to get the ball sailing over fine leg. 100 up for Chennai, 50-run stand also up between him and Bevis for the fourth wicket. A single makes this a 16-run over, the best one for CSK till now 

CSK: 108/3 in 13 overs 

Mayank Yadav continues. FOUR! Kartik slams a boundary after playing a dot. Uses the extra pace from Mayank to cut it past the deep backward point. The battle between Mayank and Kartik has been the one to watch tonight. Mayank targets the body, cramps Kartik, who plays another dot. A bouncer to follow as Kartik somehow manages a single before Brevis ends the over with another single. 

CSK: 92/3 in 12 overs

Shahbaz Ahmed continues. FOUR! Welcome boundary for Kartik Sharma. Short and wide of offside, Kartik places it towards extra cover for a boundary to start the over. SIX! Brevis ends the over with a maximum with his classic NO LOOK SIX! 15 runs from this over, the best for CSK till now.

CSK: 86/3 in 11 overs

Mayank Yadav returns to the attack. He has been much better and quite accurate with both his lines and lengths in this over to give just two singles. 

CSK: 71/3 in 10 overs

Spin for the first time tonight. Shahbaz Ahmed has been introduced into the attack. A couple of singles to start the over that is followed by a couple of dots. SIX! Short of length delivery from Shahbaz, Kartik shifts weight and slams the pulls for a big six over deep mid-wicket. 8 off this over.

CSK: 69/3 in 9 overs

Fourth straight over for Akash Singh as he will finish his spell with back overs on the bounce. Kartik Sharma opens the over with a single. OUT! Would you believe this? Third wicket for Lucknow, third wicket for Akash Singh and what a start this has been for the quick against his former team! Short, quick bouncer to Urvil, who pulls it only to find Michel Marsh at deep mid-wicket. In comes Dewald Brevis for Chennai. SIX! What a shot, Brevis! Woah! Hard length from Akash, angling across and Brevis pounces on it to slice it over deep backward point to get off the mark in some style. 10 from Akash's last over as he ends a top spell that reads 4-0-26-3.

Urvil Patel c Mitchell Marsh b Akash Singh 6(7)

End of PowerPlay, CSK manage 37 after taking 13 off the opening over. Express pacer Mayank Yadav is into the attack for the first time tonight. A wide to start as Yadav darts one down the leg. FOUR! A pressure release shot from Kartik, who gets under the line of the ball and lofts it over extra cover to help CSK get their first boundary in 2.3 overs. Mayank Yadav is able to generate good pace off this surface. Two of his deliveries were over 148 KMPH. He hits Kartik's helmet with a sharp bouncer, which leaves the batter somewhat rattled. What Mayank is struggling with is his lines and lengths. He bowls two back-to-back wides, one down the leg and one way above the batter's head. FOUR! Urvil Patel ends the over with a boundary. Full and in the middle, shaping in for the right-hander, Patel uses his quick hands to place it at deep mid-wicket. Good over for CSK, 14 off it. 

CSK: 51/2 in 7 overs

Third straight over for Akash Singh. Samson uses the angle across to start the over with a quick two. A dot to follow. OUT! Second wicket for Akash Singh, and he is on fire tonight! Hard length again, bowls on leg, Samson is glued to the crease and flicks it off his hips, using only his wrist, but fails to generate elevation, ending up playing to Mukul Choudhary at deep square leg. Kartik Sharma joins Patel in the middle. Just three runs from this over. 

Sanju Samson c Mukul Choudhary b Akash Singh 20(20)

CSK: 37/2 in 6 overs

LSG breakthrough bowler, Prince Yadav, comes into the attack in place of Shami. He uses his pace variations and lengths to keep the batter in check. Gives only 3 runs from his first over.

CSK: 34/1 in 5 overs

Akash Singh continues from his end. Gaikwad manages a single to start the over. Akash surprises Samson with a bouncer which goes over his head, missing the top edge of his pull. Akash is excited, and so is Rishabh Pant, who thinks there might be some deflection. LSG take DRS and end up wasting it as there is no deflection, confirms review. FOUR! Full, in the middle and in the slot for Gaikwad, who uses the angle of the ball and plays inside out at sweeper cover. WICKET! Akash gets his revenge instantly! A boundary and a wicket as he cramps Gaikwad with a hard length delivery and the CSK skipper ended up chipping it to Pooran at mid-on. Urvil Patel, the joint-fastest half-centurion, comes in at No, 3. Akash welcomes him with a pin-pointed bouncer.

Ruturaj Gaikwad c Nicholas Pooran b Akash Singh 13(9)

CSK: 31/1 in 4 overs

Shami again. A much better over for Shami, who gives just three singles and a couple to give 5 runs from his second over. 

CSK: 25/0 in 3 overs

Akash Singh is into the attack with the new ball from the other end. Gaikwad starts his innings with a dot delivery. FOUR! Short ball, that too dangling on leg side, Gaikwad helps himself with a pull to open his account with a boundary at fine leg. Three singles make it a 7-run opening over for Akash. 

CSK: 20/0 in 2 overs

Shami starts over the wicket to Samson. He starts with an outswinger bowled in the middle to beat Samson with a delivery that beautifully shapes away for the right-hander. FOUR! Stamp of class and authority from Samson to get a boundary off the very next delivery. Samson gets into the line of the ball on the offside and nails the cover drive. FOUR!  A dot to follow before Samson hits another sizzling boundary on the offside towards sweeper cover. FOUR MORE! Lucky this time but runs are flowing for Samson and CSK. Length ball, outside away and Samson gets an underedge which goes near the stumps for a third boundary of the over. A dot to end the over as 13 come from the opening over. 

CSK: 13/0 in 1 over

All right then! All set in Uttar Pradesh's capital, Lucknow, as Sanju Samson and Ruturaj Gaikwad open for CSK against Mohammed Shami, who has the new ball for host LSG. 

Are CSK overdependent on Sanju Samson?

CSK kept the feel-good vibes going with a third successive win and they had their ‘Chetta’ to thank again to guide them to what was a comfortable win in the end. There’s still little room for error but the five-time champions are trending the right way.

Getting a 100 in around 40 balls is good for a batter’s highlight reel. But once in a while, when the pitch is not an ally, one has to find different ways to skin a cat. Sanju Samson, has got two hundred in the first season for his new franchise, but his unbeaten innings of 87 off 52 balls on Tuesday showed that he has become a changed player since his heroics in the T20 World Cup.

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Chennai Super Kings: Gurjapneet Singh, Akeal Hosein, Sarfaraz Khan, Matthew Short, Matt Henry.
Lucknow Super Giants: Josh Inglis, Manimaran Siddharth, Digvesh Singh Rathi, Himmat Singh, Ayush Badoni.

Lucknow Super Giants: Mitchell Marsh, Nicholas Pooran, Aiden Markram, Rishabh Pant (w/c), Mukul Choudhary, Abdul Samad, Shahbaz Ahmed, Mohammed Shami, Mayank Yadav, Akash Maharaj Singh, Prince Yadav,

Chennai Super Kings: Sanju Samson (w), Ruturaj Gaikwad(c), Urvil Patel, Kartik Sharma, Dewald Brevis, Shivam Dube, Prashant Veer, Anshul Kamboj, Noor Ahmad, Spencer Johnson, Mukesh Choudhary.

It's toss time at Ekana. Ruturaj Giakwad and Rishabh Pant are in the middle. Lucknow Super Giants won the toss and elected to bowl first. 

“I think even initially after the second and third game, the talk was about you know even Fleming and myself were always positive. We always thought we were closer than what we thought or what we were last year. I think we pretty much covered all the bases. Sanju (Samson) coming in and then we had a great middle order as well. Our bowling was going well as well. We just needed that couple of wins to get that momentum. I think after the third game, we got those couple of wins and everyone just started to gel together,” Gaikwad said. 

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“That’s a question you need to ask him. I can’t speak for him on how he’s feeling about the expectation,” Tom Moody, LSG’s director of cricket, said. “Every player, particularly profile players – so whether it’s Rishabh Pant or anyone that’s either captain or a senior player in the side that has got decorated careers at that point – they’re under pressure and that’s the beauty of the IPL. It’s whether you can embrace that pressure and rise or you find it difficult to get traction.”

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“Yeah, I have not spoken with him yet. He wants to play with freedom. We see how he plays all his cricket. He is very instinctive. He wants to play freely. He is feeling the pinch like everyone else, and he is at a pivotal position at No. 3. He came out very aggressively against Punjab. He needed to as we were chasing 250. But I think that’s the style of play he wants to play, and he will be as frustrated as anyone that it didn’t come off today,” Langer said. 

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• Total Match: 7
• Chennai Super Kings: 3
• Lucknow Super Giants: 3
• No Result: 1

“Urvil Patel – It was the most important innings of this IPL 2026 campaign. It’s because CSK haven’t chased 180 in the last 7 years, with his knock, they easily chased down the target [have chased 180 only two times since 2019, including 204 vs LSG]. The way he batted, he didn’t even think for a minute whether he should take a single. I thought he would break the record. The way he batted, he should stick to it. If we get power play like that, who knows, it can be six wins in a row,” Ashwin said on his YouTube channel.

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Besides the Lucknow fixture, CSK are slated to take on the Gujarat Titans and the Sunrisers Hyderabad in their remaining matches, both of whom are placed in the second and third spots currently.

If CSK manage to win all three matches, they can end up on 18 points and even stand a chance to top the points table standings provided the results of Royal Challengers Bengaluru’s matches.

If CSK can win two out of the three matches, they will finish on 16 points wherein the Net Run Rate could come into the play to decide their finish in the standings, most likely whittling down to an Eliminator spot with a third or fourth-placed finish.

If CSK only win one of their three remaining matches, then the Super Kings are all but out of the Playoffs race as both PBKS and Rajasthan Royals can breach the 14-point mark.

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Chennai Super Kings: Sanju Samson (wk), Ruturaj Gaikwad (c), Urvil Patel, Kartik Sharma, Dewald Brevis, Shivam Dube, Akeal Hosein, Prashant Veer, Anshul Kamboj, Noor Ahmad, Mukesh Choudhary, Spencer Johnson.

Lucknow Super Giants: Josh Inglis, Mitchell Marsh, Nicholas Pooran, Rishabh Pant (c & wk), Aiden Markram, Akshat Raghuwanshi, Shahbaz Ahmed, Himmat Singh, Mohammed Shami, Mayank Yadav, Digvesh Rathi, Prince Yadav.

Lucknow Super Giants Squad: Josh Inglis, Mitchell Marsh, Nicholas Pooran, Rishabh Pant(w/c), Aiden Markram, Akshat Raghuwanshi, Shahbaz Ahmed, Himmat Singh, Mohammed Shami, Avesh Khan, Digvesh Singh Rathi, Prince Yadav, Mukul Choudhary, Abdul Samad, Manimaran Siddharth, Mayank Yadav, George Linde, Anrich Nortje, Matthew Breetzke, Mohsin Khan, Arjun Tendulkar, Ayush Badoni, Akash Maharaj Singh, Arshin Kulkarni, Naman Tiwari

Chennai Super Kings Squad: Sanju Samson(w), Ruturaj Gaikwad(c), Urvil Patel, Kartik Sharma, Dewald Brevis, Shivam Dube, Prashant Veer, Akeal Hosein, Anshul Kamboj, Noor Ahmad, Mukesh Choudhary, Gurjapneet Singh, Matthew Short, Sarfaraz Khan, Akash Madhwal, Dian Forrester, MS Dhoni, Matt Henry, Shreyas Gopal, Rahul Chahar, Spencer Johnson, Aman Khan, Zakary Foulkes, Macneil Noronha

The Playoffs race is tightening and Chennai Super Kings are flying an unlikely dream even when a young group has been stung by injuries aplenty. The latest casualty is Jamie Overton, who has played a crucial role for Chennai this season with the ball. And with the beleaguered Lucknow coming up on a tricky Ekana surface, CSK will have their task cut out in finding the two points tonight.