LSG scored a big score against Mumbai Indians due to the brilliant half -century innings of Lucknow Supergiants openers Aidan Markram and Mitchell Marsh. Markram scored a brilliant 53 runs off 38 balls with the help of 2 fours and 4 sixes. Apart from this, Mitchell Marsh played a rage of 60 runs. However, team captain Rishabh Pant was once again flopped. On the other hand, captain Hardik Pandya sent 5 players to the pavilion from Mumbai Indians. Marsh scored his third half -century this season, but Markram finally scored a half -century for the first time in the season.
Mumbai won the toss in this match and decided to bowl first. Marsh and Markram scored half -centuries, which managed to score 203 runs for eight wickets in 20 overs. Captain Hardik Pandya bowled brilliantly for Mumbai and took five wickets for 36 runs in four overs. However, he could not stop Lucknow from touching the score of 200 runs.
Fifty completed in 17th over
The match was special for Aidan Markram, who put a fifty on the third ball of the 17th over. He completed the half -century by taking a single against Vignesh Putur. Earlier, only 44 runs were scored in the last three innings of IPL 2025. In the last season, he played for Sunrisers Hyderabad, in 11 innings he scored only 220 runs at an average of 24.44. But in the last 10 innings, he could not score a single half -century.
Markram came from SRH to LSG
The South African batsman was part of Sunrisers Hyderabad in 2022, 2023 and 2024. In 2021, he played for Punjab Kings. This time he was bought by Lucknow Super Giants for Rs 2 crore. In this match, he has raised the hope of coming into his form by putting a half -century, which will benefit LSG. Apart from Markram, Marsh batted aggressively in Powerplay, but Vignesh Putur gave him a big success by dismissing him. Marsh was dismissed for 60 runs with the help of nine fours and two sixes off 31 balls. After this, Lucknow lost two more wickets soon. At the same time, captain Rishabh Pant, who earned Rs 25.75 crore more than Markram, once again proved to be a flop and was dismissed by two runs. At the same time, Nicholas Puran scored 12 runs. Markram though stood and he completed half -century