Lucknow Super Giants vs Royal Challengers Bangalore: Match Preview – IPL 2022 Eliminator, LSG vs RCB

Updated - 25 May 2022, 04:23 PM

LSG vs RCB Match Preview, IPL 2022 Eliminator, Lucknow Super Giants vs Royal Challengers Bangalore
Lucknow Super Giants vs Royal Challengers Bangalore: Match Preview.

Lucknow Super Giants vs Royal Challengers Bangalore: Match Preview – IPL 2022 Eliminator, LSG vs RCB. Lucknow Super Giants and Royal Challengers Bangalore will square off against each other in the Eliminator match of IPL 2022. The Lucknow Super Giants vs Royal Challengers Bangalore clash is set to take place on May 25 (Wednesday) at Eden Gardens Stadium in Kolkata.

Lucknow Super Giants and Royal Challengers Bangalore earlier played a match against each other once during the league stage. In that match, Lucknow Super Giants won the toss and opt to bowl first. Batting first, RCB piled up a good total of 181 on the scoreboard.

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Faf du Plessis. Photo-IPL
Faf du Plessis. Photo-IPL

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Faf du Plessis led the batting attack for RCB from one side. With his stunning knock of 96 runs, the right-handed batter took the team’s scoreboard to 181-6. Shahbaz Ahmed added 26 runs. For Lucknow, Dushmantha Chameera and Jason Holder picked 2 scalps each while Krunal Pandya picked 1 wicket.

Jason Holder
Jason Holder (Photo: BCCI)

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Lucknow Super Giants did not get a good start during the chase, losing Quinton de Kock for 3 and Manish Pandya for 6. Skipper KL Rahul got out in the 8th over scoring 30 runs. Later, Krunal Pandya added 42 runs from his side while Marcus Stonis hit 24 runs.

KL Rahul
KL Rahul. (Photo: IPL)

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However, RCB bowlers managed to get wickets at regular intervals to restrict LSG from dominating the match. For RCB, Josh Hazlewood hunted 4 wickets, Harshal Patel grabbed 2 wickets, and Mohammed Siraj and Glenn Maxwell picked 1 scalp each. LSG finished with 163-8 in 20 overs and lost by 18 runs.

Josh Hazlewood. Photo- IPL
Josh Hazlewood. Photo- IPL

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Lucknow Super Giants vs Royal Challengers Bangalore: Match Preview – IPL 2022 Eliminator, LSG vs RCB

Lucknow Super Giants

Lucknow Super Giants (LSG), IPL 2022
Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) (Credits: BCCI)

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Lucknow Super Giants are led by KL Rahul in IPL 2022. During the league stage, they played 14 matches, winning 9 and losing 5. With 18 points and a net run rate of +0.251, LSG grabbed the 3rd spot in the points table and qualified for playoffs.

So far, KL Rahul is the top run-scorer for the team with 537 runs in 14 matches. Quinton de Kock follows him with 502 runs in 14 games. In bowling, Avesh Khan has picked the most 17 wickets for the team. Jason Holder is next with 13 scalps.

Avesh Khan. (Image Credits: IPL)
Avesh Khan. (Image Credits: IPL)

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LSG Squad: KL Rahul (C), Marcus Stoinis, Ravi Bishnoi, Quinton de Kock, Manish Pandey, Jason Holder, Deepak Hooda, Krunal Pandya, Andrew Tye, Avesh Khan, Ankit Rajpoot, K Gowtham, Dushmanta Chameera, Shahbaz Nadeem, Manan Vohra, Mohsin Khan, Ayush Badoni, Kyle Mayers, Karan Sharma, Evin Lewis, Mayank Yadav, B Sai Sudharsan.

Royal Challengers Bangalore

RCB
Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB). Image: BCCI

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Royal Challengers Bangalore is led by Faf du Plessis in IPL 2022. The team played 14 matches during the group stage. They won 8 games and lost 5. With 16 points, RCB stole the 4th spot in the points table and reached the playoffs.

Faf du Plessis has scored the most 443 runs in 14 matches for Royal Challengers Bangalore. Virat Kohli is next with 309 runs in 14 games. Wanindu Hasaranga is the top wicket-taker for the team with 24 scalps Harshal Patel arrives next with 18 wickets.

Wanindu Hasaranga, IPL 2022, RCB
Wanindu Hasaranga (Credits: Twitter)

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RCB Squad: Virat Kohli, Glenn Maxwell, Mohammed Siraj, Faf du Plessis (C), Harshal Patel, Wanindu Hasaranga, Dinesh Karthik, Anuj Rawat, Shahbaz Ahamad, Akash Deep, Josh Hazlewood, Mahipal Lomror, Finn Allen, Sherfane Rutherford, Jason Behrendorff, Suyash Prabhudessai, Chama Milind, Aneeshwar Gautam, Karn Sharma, Siddharth Kaul, Rajat Patidar, David Willey.

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