The Lucknow Super Giants new-ball pacemen have struck early blows to the Rajasthan Royals Royals line-up in the two sides' Tata IPL match at the BRSABV Ekana Cricket Stadium in Lucknow, taking three wickets in the opening four overs, including two in two balls by Mohammad Shami (3-0-24-2).
After being put into the bat at the toss, Rajasthan find themselves rebuilding at 44-3. after quickly losing Yashasvi Jaiswal (22) and No 3 Dhruv Jurel (0) in consecutive balls in Shami's second over.
The former gloved a short delivery that was going over his head to the 'keeper Rishabh Pant, before Jurel outside edged an outswinger, also to the keeper.
First change Mohsin Khan (2-1-7-1) added insult to injury as he not only got Vaibhav Sooryvanshi (8) to sky the final ball of the fourth over to the fielder at extra cover, but also finished with a wicket-maiden.
Match report to follow...
LUCKNOW SUPER GIANTS: Rishabh Pant (captain/wkt), Ayush Badoni, Mitchell Marsh, Aiden Markram, Nicholas Pooran, Mukul Choudhary, Mohammad Shami, Mohsin Khan, Prince Yadav, Digvesh Singh, Mayank Yadav.
IMPACT OPTIONS: Himmat Singh, George Linde, M Siddharth, Matthew Breetzke, Abdul Samad.
RAJASTHAN ROYALS: Riyan Parag (captain), Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Dhruv Jurel (wkt), Shimron Hetmyer, Donovan Ferreira, Ravindra Jadeja, Jofra Archer, Nandre Burger, Brijesh Sharma, Ravi Bishnoi.
IMPACT OPTIONS: Lhuan-dre Pretorius, Ravi Singh, Yash Raj Punja, Shubham Dubey, Tushar Deshpande.