Urvil Patel hits record-equaling 13-ball 50 in IPL as Chennai beats Lucknow to boost top-4 hopes
CHENNAI, India (AP) — Urvil Patel hit a record-equaling 13-ball 50 in the Indian Premier League and Shivam Dube smashed two sixes in the final over of the match as Chennai Super Kings beat Lucknow Super Giants by five wickets on Sunday. Patel was out for 65 runs off 23 deliveries, including eight sixes, in a high-scoring game where both teams topped 200. Patel scored his first IPL half-century as Chennai finished with 208-5 in 19.
2 overs in reply to Lucknow's 203-8. Yashasvi Jaiswal hit a 13-ball IPL 50 for Rajasthan Royals against Kolkata Knight Riders in 2023. Dube and Veer at the end Impact player Prashant Veer survived two dropped catches, hitting 17 not out off 12 balls with two sixes, while Dube held his nerve in the final over when Chennai needed 10 off six balls.
Earlier, Jamie Overton took 3-36 in four overs. Josh Inglis hit 85 off 33 to wage a lone top-order battle, while Shahbaz Ahmed helped Lucknow post a challenging target. It was a sixth win for five-time champion Chennai in 11 games – and third straight – as it rose to fifth in the points’ table, trailing leader Sunrisers Hyderabad by only two points.
For Lucknow, it was an eighth loss in 11 games and it stayed bottom of the table. Put into bat, Lucknow started well despite losing Mitchell Marsh (10) early. Inglis hit a first half-century for his new team – off only 17 balls.
It was Inglis’ fastest half-century in his T20 career, and overall he hit six sixes and 10 fours as Lucknow scored 91-1 in the powerplay. But Nicholas Pooran was caught for one off Noor Ahmad. Overton then dismissed Inglis and skipper Rishabh Pant (15) across four balls in the 10th over.