After what Rinku Singh did the other day, no score is safe in IPL. And there is drama. Like this, on Monday night, the match between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Lucknow Super Giants spread great excitement. On this day in Bengaluru, RCB batted first and collected 212 runs for 2 wickets. Virat Kohli’s 61 with 4 fours and 4 sixes, Faf du Plessis’ unbeaten 79 with 5 fours and 5 sixes, and Glenn Maxwell’s 59 runs with 3 fours and 6 sixes from 29 balls crossed the team’s total of 200. Kohli assumed that they would win easily. Lucknow’s start was indicative of that. They lost 3 wickets in 6 overs of power play and scored only 37 runs after playing with a target of 213 runs! They needed 176 runs to win in 14 overs. Which is almost impossible. But from there the scenario changed with the batting rampage of Marcus Stoinis and Nicholas Pooran.

Stoinis was dismissed for 65 off just 40 balls with 6 fours and 5 sixes. And Puran picked up the fastest fifty in this year’s IPL in the 17th over and scored 62 runs in just 19 balls with 4 fours and 7 sixes. Lucknow came within reach of victory in his batting frenzy. They needed 22 runs off the last 18 balls to win. 5 runs were required in the last over. There is also drama. In the end, Lucknow got a thrilling victory with 1 run in the last ball after losing 9 wickets. Kohli’s heroic batting was dimmed by Nicholas Pooran’s fastest fifty. With this victory, Lucknow Super Giants have won 3 out of 4 matches and are at the top of the points table. Bengaluru, who has won one of 3 matches, has dropped to seventh place.