Romario Shepherd of Royal Challengers Bengaluru and Rishabh Pant of Lucknow Super Giants during Match 50 of the TATA Indian Premier League 2026 between Lucknow Super Giants and Royal Challengers Bengaluru at Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Cricket Stadium, Lucknow, India, on May 7, 2026. (CREIMAS)
Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) IPL 2026 Highlights: Lucknow Super Giants finally broke their losing streak after edging past Royal Challengers Bengaluru by 9 runs. Rajat Patidar slammed a half century while Tim David, Romario Shepherd and Krunal Pandya played cameos but it wasn’t enough to get over the line. Prince Yadav starred with 3 wickets including a corker to take Virat Kohli’s wicket.
Mitchell Marsh slammed his second IPL half century while Rishabh Pant played a handy 32 off 10 as Lucknow Super Giants posted 2029/3 after rain forced the match to be reduced to 19-overs-a-side. Josh Hazlewood, Rasikh Dar and Pandya took 1 wicket apiece.
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Royal Challengers Bengaluru won the toss and opted to bowl first against Lucknow Super Giants at the Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Cricket Stadium in Lucknow on Thursday. Lucknow made 3 changes with Josh Inglis, Mohsin Khan and Avesh Khan all sitting out while Arshin Kulkarni and Shahbaz Ahmed come in. RCB are playing with the same team.
Match EndedIndian Premier League, 2026 – Match 50
Lucknow Super Giants
209/3 (19.0)
vs
Royal Challengers Bengaluru
203/6 (19.0)
Match Ended ( Match 50 )
Lucknow Super Giants beat Royal Challengers Bengaluru by 9 runs (DLS method)
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Prince Yadav: The ‘bigda hua’ son his father tried to stop
Lucknow Super Giants’ Prince Yadav celebrates a wicket during an Indian Premier League cricket match. (AP Photo)
“Mayank Yadav ek Indian player hai. Avesh Khan Indian player hai. Mohsin Khan, woh bhi India khel sakta hai. Sachin Tendulkar ka ladka Arjun bhi hai. Tera number kaise padega?”
The extended pace pack at the Lucknow Super Giants camp had rattled Ram Niwas Yadav in ways his son’s IPL contract the previous year had not. He’d counted the names aloud. He knew what each one meant. Sitting in the corner of the living room on a rainy April afternoon, Ram Niwas holds his chai without the weight he used to carry. His cousins Surender and Vikram have settled in around him—the family punctuated by his long absences at work. “Ab khush hai,” he says quietly, as if checking the truth of it by speaking. (READ MORE)
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