Lucknow Super Giants defeated Royal Challengers Bangalore in a last-ball thriller with the help of brilliant knocks from Marcus Stoinis and Nicholas Pooran. Speaking about this game, LSG winning the toss invited RCB to bat first, and RCB posted a mammoth total of 212/2 as their top three batters Kohli, Faf du Plessis, and Maxwell scored scintillating fifties and fired all around the park with innovative shots from a bat.
LSG started their run-chase very poorly as they were struggling at 23/3 after the first four overs, later a quick-fire knock from Marcus Stoinis and a 15-ball fifty from Nicholas Pooran changed the complexion of the game in favor of LSG to chase down this humongous total in 20 overs. Harshal Patel bowled the final over of the match brilliantly as he almost ended up defending five runs in the last over, but unfortunately, the luck wasn't on their side as they ended up fumbling a run-out chance in the final ball of the game.
Numbers and Stats from RCB vs LSG game:
4 - For the fourth time a team has won by one wicket in the IPL history.
Instances of the team winning an IPL game by 1 wicket:
KKR vs PBKS in Kolkata, 2015
CSK vs MI in Mumbai-WS, 2018
SRH vs MI in Hyderabad, 2018
LSG vs RCB in Bengaluru, 2023
5 - For the fifth time RCB has lost an IPL game after posting a 200-plus total in the IPL.
Teams to lose most matches after posting 200 (or) more in 1st innings of an IPL match:
RCB - 5
CSK - 3
PBKS / KKR - 2
Instances of RCB losing an IPL match after posting a 200-plus total in the 1st innings:
205/8 vs CSK in Chennai, 2012
205/8 vs CSK in Bengaluru, 2018
205/3 vs KKR in Bengaluru, 2019
205/2 vs PBKS in Navi Mumbai, 2022
212/2 vs LSG in Bengaluru, 2023
15 - Nicholas Pooran recorded the fastest-ever fifty for LSG in the IPL and also he recorded the fastest fifty in the IPL 2023 edition.
Read More: Check out the list of the fastest fifty in IPL history here
51 - Virat Kohli has joint-most (51) fifty-plus scores for an Indian batsman in the IPL with Shikhar Dhawan.
65 - Marcus Stoinis has recorded his joint-highest score (65) in the IPL.
Highest Score for Marcus Stoinis in the IPL:
65 vs MI in Dubai, 2020 - Qualifier 1
65 vs RCB in Bengaluru, 2023
53 vs PBKS in Dubai, 2020
53* vs RCB in Dubai, 2020
81 - Harshal Patel has taken 100 IPL wickets from just 81 matches.
Fastest to pick 100 wickets in IPL by matches played:
Lasith Malinga - 70
Bhuvneshwar Kumar - 81
Harshal Patel - 81
213 - LSG chased down 213 runs successfully in this game.
Highest total chased down successfully in IPL history:
RR - 224 vs PBKS in Sharjah, 2020
MI - 219 vs CSK in Delhi, 2021
RR - 215 vs Dec in Hyderabad, 2008
LSG - 213 vs RCB in Bengaluru, 2023
LSG - 211 vs CSK in Mumbai-BS, 2022
