Lucknow Super Giants beat Chennai Super Kings by 6 wickets in the Indian Premier League (IPL) on Tuesday with Marcus Stoins' brilliant century. Chasing a target of 211 runs, Lucknow won by scoring 213 with 3 balls remaining.
Stoins scored 124 not out with the help of 13 fours and 6 sixes while playing 63 balls and won the team. He was well supported by other batters.Nicholas Poran scored 34 runs, Deepak Hooda knocked out 17 runs, captain KL Rahul scored 16 runs and Devdutt Padikal scored 13 runs.
Chennai's Mathisa Pathirana took 2 wickets, Deepak Chahar and Mustafizur Rahman took 1 wicket each.
Before that, Chennai, who lost the toss and were invited to bat, scored 210 runs losing 4 wickets in the scheduled 20 overs with the help of captain Rituraj Gaikwad's century. Gaikwad remained not out and scored 108 runs. He played 60 balls and hit 12 fours and 3 sixes. Shivam Duve scored a half century. Shivam scored 66 off 27 balls with 7 sixes and 3 fours before being run out. Ravindra Jadeja scored 16 runs and Drell Mitchell scored 11 runs. Mahendra Singh Dhoni knocked out 1 boundary in 1 ball.
Matt Henry, Mosin Khan and Yash Thakur took 1 wicket each for Lucknow.
Marcus Stoins became Player of the Match due to his destructive batting performance of 124 runs in just 63 balls.
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Lucknow has climbed to the fourth position with 10 points with 5 wins and 3 losses in 8 matches. Second placed Kolkata Knight Riders and third placed Sunrisers Hyderabad also have the same 10 points.





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