Royal Challengers Bangalore appeared completely dominant in the first innings of the match at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium. The 23rd league match of IPL 2026 is being played between RCB and Lucknow Super Giants on the ground. Lucknow team, which came to bat first in the match, was all out for 146 runs in 20 overs against Bengaluru. RCB will have to score 147 runs to win. Mitchell Marsh played the biggest innings for the team and scored 40 runs in 32 balls with the help of 3 fours and 2 sixes. During this, Rasikh Dar Salaam took maximum 4 wickets for Bengaluru.
In the match, Bengaluru won the toss and decided to bowl. After the first innings, this decision of the team seemed correct to a great extent. Lucknow, who came to bat first, had a very bad start.
Bad start for Lucknow, wickets falling quickly
In the powerplay, Lucknow’s score was only 35 runs at the loss of 1 wicket. The team lost the first wicket in the form of Aiden Markram, who scored 12 runs in 8 balls. Then after the powerplay, on the very next ball of the next over, Lucknow lost the second wicket in the form of Nicholas Puran, who was out after scoring only 01 run.
After this, Lucknow’s innings recovered for some time, but the team lost the third wicket for 71 runs and the fourth wicket for 83 runs. Mitchell Marsh was out first, who scored 40 runs in 32 balls with the help of 3 fours and 2 sixes. Then Abdul Samad returned to the pavilion without opening the account.
Mukul Chaudhary and Ayush Badoni added some runs
After 4 wickets fell early, Mukul Chaudhary and Ayush Badoni took over the innings. Both of them made a partnership of 35 runs in 27 balls for the sixth wicket. This partnership ended with the wicket of Badoni, who was out after scoring 38 runs in 24 balls. This wicket of the team fell at 118 runs in 15.5 overs.
After this Rishabh Pant came on the field again. Earlier he had returned back to the pavilion due to being hit by the ball. But even after coming back, Pant could not do anything and was out after scoring only 01 run. In this way, Lucknow’s sixth wicket fell at 124 runs in 16.5 overs. The team got the 7th blow at 137 runs in 18.3 overs, when George Linde was out after scoring only 07 runs. On the next ball, Bhavneshwar gave the eighth blow to Lucknow by bowling Mohammed Shami (0).
As the match progressed, Rasikh Dar Salaam gave the ninth blow to Lucknow at 145 runs by bowling Mukul Chaudhary. Mukul scored 39 runs in 28 balls with the help of 3 fours and 2 sixes. Then on 146 runs, Rasikh Salam bowled Avesh Khan and gave the team all out.
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