RR vs LSG, IPL 2023 | Highlights: Lucknow Super Giants beat Rajasthan Royals by 10 runs

Marcus Stoinis became the player of the match for his all-round performance.

Nice to get involved with the ball, had no real plans to get Jos out that way but I just used some cricketing smarts and bowled it short into the wicket. We identified this is a difficult wicket, so we realised we don't need a 50 off 20 balls on this surface. (On whether he will bowl more) You will have to ask the skipper that question, but fitness wise I'm ready to go. All good.

I got hit by one of the throws from my teammates, so clearly doing something wrong as captain. In the 10 over mark, the message me and Kyle sent out was 160 would be a good total on this track, they have some good bowlers as well who exploited the conditions. We fell 10 short but made up with the ball. And there was no dew so made it fair for both teams. We game in here yesterday and saw 180 would be a par score, but the first over from Boult, me and Kyle had a chat and realised this isn't a 180 wicket. The ball was keeping a bit low, so we gave ourselves time in the powerplay. Maybe if we played a bit better, we might have got 170 as well. I think that run-out from the impact player (Mishra), and two wickets falling back to back gives the oppostion (his own team) a chance. We know with Rajasthan their strength is their top four, so we needed to have our plans in place to get them out.

Not that great (feeling) after a loss, but it's okay. We'd have loved to win the first game at Jaipur. We'll definitely take lessons and move on. With the batting line-up we have, it was a very chaseable score. But they bowled really well, used the conditions really well. (Conditions) Personally I was expecting something like this, bit of slow and low kind of wicket is what I expected and we got that. You need to play some smart cricket and we did that till the ninth over. Right after Jaiswal got out, it was a matter of getting that one big partnership. They bowled really well, whenever we tried to go hard at them, I think we lost wickets. 5 overs 50 in this kind of wicket is a bit tough with the way they were bowling. Even if you win or lose a game, you take lessons out of it, that's the beauty of this game. We'll be taking lot of lessons out of it. We did a reasonably good job to restrict them to 150. There are lots of lessons in the bowling side as well and in the batting also. We expect much better performance and we all know the standard of cricket we've been playing. We have to move forward and play some better cricket.

Dhruv Jurel has been dismissed by Avesh Khan with Rajasthan needing 14 off 3 balls. 

Lucknow Super Giants defeated Rajasthan Royals by 10 runs in Match 26 of IPL 2023.   

Devdutt Padikkal has been dismissed by Aveshh Khan in the final over of the match for 26 off 21 balls. Rajasthan need 14 runs to win in 3 balls. 

Avesh Khan dismissed Shimron Hetmyer for 2 off 5 balls. Rajasthan Royals 104/4 in 15.1 overs. 

Marcus Stoinis has dismissed Jos Buttler for 40 off 41 balls. Rajasthan Royals 97/3 in 13.3 overs. 

Sanju Samson has been run out by Amit Mishra and Nicholas Pooran for 2 off 4 balls. Rajasthan Royals 93/2 in 12.4 overs. 

Marcus Stoinis dismissed Yashasvi Jaiswal for 44 off 35 balls. Rajasthan Royals 87/1 in 11.3 overs. 

Rajasthan Royals smashed 47/0 in the first six overs of their chase. They need 155 runs to win. 

Yashasvi Jaiswal survived an LBW appeal against Naveen-ul-Haq on the first delivery of the second innings. 

Nicholas Pooran departs for 28 off a run out 

Lucknow Super Giants finish 20 overs at 154/7 

Rajasthan Royals need 155 to win 

Marcus Stoinis departs for 21 to Sandeep Sharma 

Nicholas Pooran providing finishing touches to the Lucknow Super Giants innings 

18 overs have been bowled and Lucknow Super Giants are 129/4 

Slog overs begin in Jaipur and Lucknow Super Giants will look to accelerate as much as possible 

 Devdutt Padikkal comes in place of Yuzvendra Chahal as an impact substitute for Rajasthan Royals 

15 overs have been bowled and Lucknow Super Giants are 109/4

Mayers might have scored a 50 but he'll be the first one to admit that he wasn't as his best. The left-handed opener departs for 51 off 42 deliveries. LSG are 104/4. Nicholas Pooran comes out to bat.

Deepak Hooda departs for 2 runs, LSG are 99/2. Marcus Stoinis comes out to bat for Lucknow

On a track like this in Jaipur, Mayers has batted like a dream and has brought up his 50 off 40 odd deliveries

Ayush badoni who was sent out, ahead of Nicholas Poorna has been dismissed cheaply by Kiwi speedster Trent Boult. Badoni goes for 1 off 4 deliveries.

Interestingly, youngster Ayush Badoni has been sent out to bat at number 3. Nicholas Pooran was padded up and would have been the perfect fit for a situation like this, but the LSG management thinks otherwise

KL Rahul departs on 39 off 32 deliveries, LSG are 82/1 

KL Rahul with a six over long on off Yuzi Chahal has shown glimpses of the destruction that he can cause. Samson has been quick to react and has pitted Rahul against his most experienced campaigner, Ravi Ashwin

Mayers and KL Rahul have steadied LSG's ship but the runs are not enough. LSG are 79/0 after 10 overs.

KL Rahul and Mayers have attacked Yuzi Chahal and have taken the run rate a notch higher. The duo has smashed the Royals leggie for 18 runs in the 9th over of the match.

Kyle Mayers comes down the track and hits Yuzvendra Chahal over long-off for a six 

Rajasthan Royals have LSG in all sorts of problems, KL Rahul has looked rusty, but Mayers is keeping them in the hunt, Mayers has led rajasthan Royal's charge and has guided them over 50 runs

Lucknow Super Giants have scored 37/0 at the end of powerplay. 

• KL Rahul: 20 (20)
• Kyle Mayers: 16 (17)

Lucknow Super Giants won't be happy with their performance so far. They have not even scored 40 with only one more over to go for the end of powerplay. Now Ashwin has been introduced to tighten the screws on Lucknow Super Giants

Rajasthan Royals have been clinical and tight with the ball so far, KL Rahul, as usuaal has been very watchful, even in the powerplay, but the onus now falls upon Mayers to score quick runs for Lucknow

Yashasvi Jaiswal drops a sitter off KL Rahul 

Three overs gone and Lucknow Super Giants are 14/0 

Two overs have been bowled, Lucknow are 12/0

Sandeep Sharma comes into the attack for the Rajasthan Royals 

Trent Boult drops a catch at the third man region off Kyle Mayers 

Trent Boult bowls a first over maiden for the Rajasthan Royals 

Trent Boult comes out to start for Rajasthan Royals 

The match between Lucknow Super Giants and Rajasthan Royals is about to begin  in Jaipur 

On a spinning and slow track, Yuzvendra Chahal and R Ashwin can be the real match-winners for the Royal and can prove effective in defeating the Lucknow Super Giants. 

Jason Holder has come in place of Adam Zampa against the Lucknow Super Giants. On a pitch which offers a lot of turn to the spinners it will be interesting to see how he performs in today's match. 

Jason Holder comes in place of Adam Zampa for Rajasthan Royals 

Rajasthan Royals Playing XI: Sanju Samson (c/wk), Jos Buttler, S Hetmyer, Y Jaiswal, D Jurel, R Ashwin, J Holder, Riyan Parag, Sandeep Sharma, Y Chahal, T Boult
 

Lucknow Super Giants Playing XI: KL Rahul (C), MP Stoinis, Kyle Mayers, Deepak Hooda, KH Pandya, A Badoni, Nicholas Pooran(wk),  Avesh Khan, Ravi Bishnoi, Yudhvir Singh, Naveen ul-Haq
 

Rajasthan Royals Impact Players: D Padikkal, J Root, D Ferreira, N Saini, M Ashwin

 Lucknow Super Giants Impact Players: D Sams, K Gowtham, P Mankad, A Mishra, J Unadkat
 

Rajasthan Royals have won the toss and elected to bowl first

The toss of the RR vs LSG IPL 2023 will take place at 7 PM in Jaipur

Lucknow Super Giants till now have played two matches against the Rajasthan Royals and have ended up being on the losing side twice. The team will look to win today's and also secure first win against the Royals. 

RR vs LSG LIVE IPL score: Rajasthan Royals' Yuzvendra Chahal is an IPL stalwart and his numbers are a testament to it. The Royals leggie is closing on Bravo's record of having the most IPL wickets. Chennai Super Kings' former death over specialist Dwayne Bravo has 183 IPL wickets to his name and Chahal with 177 wickets is just 7 scalps away from surpassing him.

Yuzvendra Chahal has been one of the key performers of the Rajasthan Royals in the IPL 2023 and looking at the Jaipur pitch the leg spinner will once again look to perform yet again for his team. 

Bowling first a benefit in Jaipur can be a benefit for teams at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium as in the 47 IPL matches at this venue the teams chasing have won the match 32 times. 

The pitch from the Sawai Mansingh Stadium in Jaipur will offer a lot of help to the bowlers and this is the reason till now any team has not been able to register a total of 200 or more at this ground. Chasing at the pitch can be a good decision. 

Today In the never-ending IPL action, Rajasthan Royals will take on Lucknow Super Giants. Both the teams are at the summit of the IPL 2023 Points Table. Thus, it will be intriguing to witness who comes on top in this 1 vs 2 battle. 

The RR vs LSG match will take place at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium and the match is set to start at 7:30 PM IST.

The teams have squared off twice before and both times Rajasthan Royals got the better of Lucknow Super Giants. Thus, the score is 2-0 in favour of RR right now.

RR IPL 2023 squad: Sanju Samson (c & wk), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shimron Hetmyer, Devdutt Padikkal, Jos Buttler (wk), Dhruv Jurel, Riyan Parag, Sandeep Sharma, Trent Boult, Obed McCoy, Navdeep Saini, Kuldeep Sen, Kuldeep Yadav, R Ashwin, Yuzvendra Chahal, KC Cariappa, Jason Holder, Donovan Ferreira (wk), Kunal Rathore, Adam Zampa, KM Asif, Murugan Ashwin, Akash Vashisht, Abdul PA, Joe Root.

KL Rahul celebrated his birthday yesterday. Will he celebrate the occasion on the field as well?

The RR VS LSG game will be the battle between two of the top teams on the table. Let's see comes out as the winner.

Rajasthan Royals: Joe Root, Murugan Ashwin, KC Cariappa, Riyan Parag, KM Asif

LSG: K Gowtham, Amit Mishra, Prerak Mankad, Kyle Mayers, Ayush Badoni

RR: Yashasvi Jaiswal, Jos Buttler, Sanju Samson (c) (wk), Devdutt Padikkal, Dhruv Jurel, Shimron Hetmyer, Jason Holder, Ravichandran Ashwin, Trent Boult, Yuzvendra Chahal, Sandeep Sharma.

LSG: Quinton de Kock, KL Rahul (c), Deepak Hooda, Krunal Pandya, Marcus Stoinis, Nicholas Pooran (wk), Ayush Badoni, Jaydev Unadkat, Mark Wood, Ravi Bishnoi, Avesh Khan

The Sawai Mansingh Stadium in Jaipur Rajasthan will become the battleground for the first time in IPL 2023.

Rajasthan Royals batsman Jos Buttler till now has been exceptional with the bat and has been one of the team's top scorers in the tournament. The team would expect him to continue the same heroics against the Lucknow Super Giants.