LSG vs RR

11:45 PM local time and IST: So that will be all from Lucknow for tonight! But tomorrow, we will be back with more live action from the Wankhede Stadium, as Mumbai Indians take on Chennai Super Kings. The first ball is to be bowled at 7:30 PM local time. This is Sourabh and Bidipto taking your leave. Keep following Sportskeeda! 

Ravindra Jadeja (Player of the Match, 43* off 29 balls and 1/29 in 4 overs): "I'm feeling really good! Runs and wickets, yes, I'm feeling good. The wicket was not that easy, the ball was swinging and seaming. So, I told Donovan (Ferreira) and Shubham (Dubey) to bat cautiously first and then go after the bowling later. It worked! Coming from injury, it's not easy for someone like Mayank (Yadav) to bowl well at that pace. But, I told my partner Shubham, that we need to take a few chances in the last over. The celebration after dismissing (Nicholas) Pooran was at the spur of the moment! Nothing planned. I wanted to vary my pace. Also, there were variations in line and length. But today, I looked to bowl more slow, keeping the short side in mind." 

Riyan Parag (Rajasthan Royals captain): "Very pleased! I feel we were really short with the bat. Even with the situation, we should have got to 180. When Shimron Hetmyer and I were batting, we thought that we should have got more. We assess the wickets as quickly as possible. If it is flat, the batters keep going. The top order bats accordingly. There is nothing to do with the middle-order. The bowling was exceptional! It didn't seam much up front, but it swung. And both our new-ball bowlers were brilliant. I know that I have to step with the bat, but, I know I'm getting there." 

Nandre Burger, 2/27 tonight with a chat post the win: Good to get back on the winning side of things. Bowling with Jof (Archer) is pretty cool. A little bit of stutter with the bat but I'm sure the boys will fix that. The wicket had a mahogany tint to it and the ball was gripping too Was just trying to bowl the cutters. (conversations with the bowling coach Shane Bond) Basically keep it as simple as possible. FInd the hardest ball to hit and bowl it 120 times in the day. Not much that we are working on just bowling the stock ball. (bowling at the death) It is a call the captain makes on the day but I will always be there if the team needs me, ready to step up whenever needed.

Rishabh Pant (LSG captain): It is difficult to explain. Definitely our batting is letting us down. We are disappointed as a group but at the same time you have got to keep fighting, look for answers inside and not outside. That is how it is as of now. We could have taken a lot more time with the bat including myself, not making any excuses but as a batting group we need to put our hands up and finish the job for our bowlers. We will still look at the positives, we know that we have the firepower and we believe in it

11:15 PM local time and IST: Rajasthan Royals win by 40 runs with 12 balls to spare!

Ravindra Jadeja 43* (29) | Jofra Archer - 3/20 (4)
Mitchell Marsh 55 (41) | Mohsin Khan - 2/17 (4)

Three batters with double-digit scores for Lucknow Super Giants. All five bowlers amongst the wickets for Rajasthan Royals. Failures from Aiden Markram, Rishabh Pant and Nicholas Pooran, again! Yet again. Finally, the lowest total defended in IPL 2026 for a full game, in style! 

Those two partnerships towards the end that Ravindra Jadeja was involved in - first with Donovan Ferreira, and then with Shubham Dubey - gave the Royals 82 runs. Had that been even half, LSG would still have struggled to get to the target! 

Yet another disappointing batting effort from the hosts! Yet another! Another experimental case with Ayush Badoni opening the batting, and he got run out first ball! 

Another Rishabh Pant innings with swipes and slogs, another low score. In fact, no score! Another case of Aiden Markram looking the part first, and then, giving it away immediately after. 

It felt as though Nicholas Pooran was trying to dig deep and take the innings deep with some sensible shots. But the moment he tried to whack one, he got caught in the deep! 

Afterwards, there was just too much to do for the likes of Himmat Singh and Mukul Choudhary. Not that they did a good job of it either! 

But on the flip side, Jofra Archer and Nandre Burger breathed fire with the new ball, taking three wickets in the power play to break the back of the LSG batting! There were thunderbolts, there were swinging deliveries on target, there were seaming deliveries on target! 

Wily and crafty spin-bowling wasn't necessarily needed on this track. Keeping it simple was the need and both Ravi Bishnoi and Jadeja did their bit! 

However, full credit to Brijesh Sharma for picking up 2 wickets and bowling so well at different phases of the innings, to different batters! His bowling has slipped under the radar, but, come up trumps yet again!  

54 wickets for Archer now, as a Rajasthan Royal, the most for any bowler playing for the franchise! As many as 15 deliveries bowled at over 145 kph too, from the speedster. And, a maiden over to boot! 

Make that 5 wins for the Royals, taking them up to 10 points and second in the points table. The hosts though, lose 4 matches in a row, and 5 in all! 

17.6 Jofra Archer to Mohsin Khan, CLEANED HIM UP, too good for the number 11 and it is all smiles in the RR camp. They are back to winning ways, a 40-run win for them and with that they move up to number 2 in the points table handing LSG a fourth loss on the trot. Parag has his hands up in the air, Jurel has a big smile as he hugs Archer, Burger has a big smile on his face as well. It was a slipper yorker from round the wicket, Mohsin just could not do anything apart from backing away to miss it and have his stumps flattened