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05/15 13:23 CDT Marsh blitz earns Lucknow big win and dents Chennai IPL playoff
hopes
Marsh blitz earns Lucknow big win and dents Chennai IPL playoff hopes
LUCKNOW, India (AP) --- Mitchell Marsh deflated Chennai Super Kings with a
blazing knock of 90 off 38 balls as the playoff chasers were blown away by
Lucknow Super Giants in the Indian Premier League on Friday.
Nicholas Pooran finished off Chennai with four consecutive sixes against Anshul
Kamboj for Lucknow to cruise to 188-3 and a win by seven wickets with more than
three overs to spare.
Chennai put up 187-5 in what appeared to be an over-par total. Kartik Sharma
hit 71 off 42 balls and impact player Shivam Dube enjoyed a 16-ball unbeaten 32.
Chennai missed a chance to move into the top four playoff positions and slipped
to sixth in the table. Lucknow was already out of the playoffs reckoning but
entertained its home crowd with a fourth win from 12 games.
Marsh teed off in the power play when he smashed Kamboj for four consecutive
sixes and a boundary in a 28-run over. The fast bowler eventually finished with
expensive figures of 0-63 off 2.4 overs.
Marsh's blitz featured seven sixes and nine boundaries. Backed up by Josh
Inglis (36), they put Lucknow within reach of victory with their quickfire
135-run opening stand.
Both perished off successive deliveries in the 12th over. Inglis sliced Mukesh
Choudhary to deep point and Choudhary deflected Pooran's hard drive back onto
the non-striker's stumps that caught Marsh out of his crease.
But the pair had done the hard work that Pooran capped in style to wrap up the
win.
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