The Australian all-rounder smashed an unbelievable unbeaten 63-ball 124 as Lucknow pulled off a double over CSK this IPL season.
It was a second win for LSG over CSK in simply 5 days.
After pulling off an eight-wicket win over CSK on the Ekana final week, LSG did it as soon as once more, this time, breaching the fortress Chepauk, using on a jaw-dropping ton in chase of a tricky 211.
The win was Lucknow’s fifth of the season whereas Chennai suffered their fourth defeat in eight video games. The win was additionally Lucknow’s first ever on the Chepauk.
Stoinis made a bustling unbeaten hundred, an ideal anti-thesis to Ruturaj Gaikwad’s stylish century as LSG made the best profitable 200-plus run-chase on the venue.
Gaikwad (108, 60b, 12×4, 3×6) and Shivam Dube (66, 27b, 3×4, 7×6) added 104 runs for the fourth-wicket stand to energy the Tremendous Kings to a aggressive 210 for 4.
As It Occurred
Stoinis’ innings was in direct distinction to the silken easy knock of Gaikwad.
The Australian’s 6’1 inch body is a storehouse of energy and he made no effort to cover it too, crunching some fours and sixes, and nothing was extra particular than his most off pacer Mustafizur Rahman, who had earlier consumed LSG skipper KL Rahul cheaply.
Rahman pitched an off-cutter barely fuller on the off-stump from over the wicket, however Stoinis produced a physics-defying straight crunch over the bowlers’ head for a six.
On the different finish, Pooran was on overdrive from ball one, partly due to the linear 55-run stand between Stoinis and a struggling Devdutt Padikkal (13, 19b), whose distress was ended when Pathirana produced a 151 kmph scorcher to uproot the batter’s leg stump.
It mandated that Pooran, who added 70 with Stoinis, didn’t have the posh of taking his time to settle in, however he was as much as the duty and smoked Shardul Thakur for 20 runs within the 16th over together with two sixes and a 4.
Pooran’s dismissal by pacer Matheesha Pathirana left the duty of taking LSG residence to Stoinis, who diminished the equation robbing 15 runs off the 19th over bowled by the Lankan.
Stoinis wanted to take 17 runs off the final over bowled by Rahman and did the job with three balls to spare, smashing the Bangladesh left-arm fast for six, 4, 4 (+1NB) and 4.
Earlier, Gaikwad and Dube gave steam to Tremendous Kings (213 for 4) innings after a quite subdued Energy Play (49/2) and the center passage.
The CSK ought to primarily thank Gaikwad, who performed an innings which was a connoisseur’s delight, for that complete after the early departure of Ajinkya Rahane, who was caught fantastically by stumper KL Rahul off Matt Henry.
The batting on this iteration of the IPL has been all about scorching the ball far and broad however Gaikwad took a traditional route, timing the ball via the gaps for fours.
In actual fact, his first fifty contained no fours however nonetheless he managed to take care of a strike-rate of above 180 throughout that part.
The fifty got here off simply 28 balls. Essentially the most spectacular shot that Gaikwad performed on the night time was a slice-cut off pacer Mohsin Khan that beat the purpose fielder for a boundary.
Nonetheless, his focus was additionally on setting up helpful alliances along with his teammates as 45 runs had been made with Daryl Mitchell and 52 had been made alongside Ravindra Jadeja (17).
Nonetheless, each Mitchell (11), who was dropped on 4, and Jadeja would rue lacking out on an opportunity to chip in with a far greater knock.
Whereas Gaikwad was the principle contributor in these partnerships, the strain was barely lifted off his shoulders as soon as Dube arrived on the crease.
The left-hander performed some highly effective hits across the discipline and, not so surprisingly, fetched CSK’s first six of the innings within the 13th over off Stoinis.
Gaikwad quickly slammed the primary six of his innings within the 45th ball he confronted –pulling Stoinis’ half-tracker over mid-wicket.
Nonetheless, Dube seamlessly slipped into his six-hitting avatar and pacer Yash Thakur bore the brunt because the left-hander smashed him for 3 successive sixes.
Gaikwad, who reached 99 with a six off Thakur over additional cowl, reached his second IPL hundred with a 4 within the subsequent ball off the identical bowler as he made 16 runs within the 18th over.
Gaikwad and Dube introduced up 100 of their partnership in simply 46 balls.
(With inputs from PTI)
