IPL, 2026 Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Cricket Stadium, Lucknow

19.6: Kartik Tyagi to Mohammad Shami, SIX! SHAMI GOES BIG AND CLEARS THE FENCE! Oh, Shami, what are you made of? He unfurls a clean hit to keep his side well and truly alive by the barest of margins. Kartik misses his length and lands it right into the slot, on the off stump. Shami has a free-flowing swing at it. Clears the front leg to make room for himself. Generates enough power by getting under it and pumps it over the long off fence for a cracking six. We are going into the Super Over. Absolute scenes at the Ekana Stadium as KKR have been left shell-shocked. Not a 200-plus game, not a belter of a wicket by any stretch of imagination, but still, we have witnessed a classic IPL low-scoring thriller. Highly entertaining stuff.

19.5: Kartik Tyagi to Mohammad Shami, Big swing and a miss! Length ball, wide outside off. Shami stays put and has a swing at it but misses, and it goes through to the keeper. Right, 7 needed off the final delivery. A six for the Super Over.

19.4: Kartik Tyagi to Prince Yadav, Slower bouncer, following the batter as Prince shuffles far outside off. Prince attempts to scoop it over short fine leg, but does not connect. Tim Seifert fumbles to gather it cleanly behind the stumps and the batters cross over for a bye. By the time Seifert's throw reaches the bowling end, Prince is home comfortably. Had Seifert aimed at the stumps at the batting end, Shami could have been in trouble.

19.3: Kartik Tyagi to Himmat Singh, OUT! HIT STRAIGHT TO THE FIELDER! Guess who's the man in the deep. It's Rinku Singh. He can even walk on water today. The tables turn yet again as this game refuses to settle. Back of a length outside off. Himmat goes back in the crease and pulls it towards deep backward square, but Rinku Singh is stationed right there. He barely has to move forward, settles underneath it comfortably and takes the catch. LSG are 148/8, needing 8 runs from 3 balls.

19.2: Kartik Tyagi to Himmat Singh, FOUR! Himmat Singh is playing a gem of a knock for his side. Kartik goes short and slow into the pitch, over the top of off. Himmat Singh stands deep in his crease and hammers it with a pull shot over square leg for a boundary. LSG need 8 from 4 balls. Kartik is under tremendous pressure. Tensed faces in the visitors' dugout.

19.2: Kartik Tyagi to Himmat Singh, Oh..no! Is that another No Ball for height? Looks like it. Kartik Tyagi once again bowls a high full toss, on off. Himmat Singh connects this time but gets more height on it. It flies towards long on, where Rovman Powell grabs it and quickly releases the throw back, but cannot stop the second run. Kartik Tyagi asks his skipper to take the review for the No Ball. The Ball Tracking comes up and shows that the ball is well above the waist of the batter. The on-field calls stay. It will be another Free Hit.

19.2: Kartik Tyagi to Himmat Singh, NO BALL! Dear me, that's a hostile beamer. Kartik misses his radar completely and slips in a wild full toss on off stump. Himmat does well to get the bat on it and protect himself in evasive action. It comes off the splice and drops into the short mid-wicket region. Free Hit coming up... 

19.1: Kartik Tyagi to Mohammad Shami, Back of a length, slower one, outside off. Shami misses to play the square cut on the off side and the ball bounces behind to the keeper, but Seifert fails to collect it cleanly due to the awkward bounce and the batters cross for a bye.

18.6: Vaibhav Arora to Himmat Singh, FOUR! BLAZED AWAY! Himmat goes deep in the crease and converts the yorker into a half volley. Gets the wrists through it beautifully and hits it up and over backward point for four. 

18.5: Vaibhav Arora to Mohammad Shami, Pace off bouncer outside the off stump. Shami carves it to deep backward point for a single.

18.4: Vaibhav Arora to Mohammad Shami, Full toss, wide of off, Mohammad Shami slashes hard at it but misses out to get any sort of connection with the ball. This is touch and go with the height but the umpire keeps his arms down and Shami doesn't send this upstairs as well. 

18.3: Vaibhav Arora to Mohammad Shami, FOUR! Shami goes down the ground! Vaibhav misses his length, serving up a full toss on the middle stump line. Shami gets on the front foot and lofts it hard down the ground. It just beats Rinku diving to his right at long off.

18.3: Vaibhav Arora to Mohammad Shami, WIDE! Vaibhav bowls a wide yorker around off but lands this on the other side of the tramline. Wide given as Shami fails to get anything on it. 

18.2: Vaibhav Arora to George Linde, OUT! EASILY CAUGHT! All going KKR's way now. Full length and pitching outside leg, following Linde with pace on. He makes room and swings down the ground, gets the elevation, but not the distance. He could not get the full swing of the bat, and that proves costly. Rinku rides the long on boundary and takes the catch. He is not dropping those dollies. LSG are 129/7.

18.1: Vaibhav Arora to Himmat Singh, Full length outside the off stump. Himmat hits it towards long off for a single.

17.6: Varun Chakaravarthy to George Linde, FOUR! Good attempt by Ramandeep Singh but in vain. On the shorter side and outside off. Linde rocks back and slaps a flat-batted hit over the bowler's head. Ramandeep is racing in from wide long on to his right, gets there and tries to slap the ball back in, but it bounces inside the fence.

17.5: Varun Chakaravarthy to George Linde, FOUR! A tough chance put down, and worse, it's a four! Short of a length outside off. Linde rocks back and slams it hard over extra cover. Powell is running across from long off, gets to it and throws himself into a dive, managing to get a fingertip on the ball. But he cannot hold on, and it rolls away behind him and the converging deep cover fielder is too far to back it up and the ball rolls into the fence for four.

17.4: Varun Chakaravarthy to George Linde, Drifts across the off stump, full in length. Linde tries to thrash it behind cover, but misses on the outside edge.

17.3: Varun Chakaravarthy to Ayush Badoni, OUT! CAUGHT IN THE DEEP! Badoni holes out now and this could be a massive moment in the game. A touch short, on middle and off. Ayush Badoni bends a bit low and tries to pull it over deep mid-wicket, but is cramped up for space and hence cannot generate enough power on the shot. It goes only as far as the fielder stationed in the deep. Anukul Roy at deep mid-wicket bends low as the ball dips on him and takes a finely judged catch. Lucknow Super Giants are 120/6, still requiring 36 runs from 15 balls.

17.2: Varun Chakaravarthy to Himmat Singh, Full and outside the off stump. Himmat steps forward and drives to long off for a single.

17.1: Varun Chakaravarthy to Ayush Badoni, From around the stump. Short at 93.9 kph, sliding across the right-hander. Ayush tries to late cut, but gets a thickish outside edge and the ball runs to the left of backward point for a run.