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KL Rahul notched up his second unbeaten century against Mumbai Indians (MI) as he pummelled the opposition bowlers to steer Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) to their fourth win in the ong⛦oing Indi🧔an Premier League (IPL) season.
The LSG skipper reached the three-figure mark in the penultimate over of the first innings with a boundary off MI seamer Tymal Mills.
Rahul made batting look like a walk in the park with 103 off 60 balls in his 100th IPL game to put the Rohit Sharma-led side all but out of the competition.
With an 18-run defeat in their sixth match of the season, Mumbai crashed to their w⛄orst start in the h꧅istory of IPL.
Brief scores: Lucknow S𝓀uper Giants 199-4 in 20 overs (KL Rahul 103 not out, Manish Pandey 38; Jaydev Unadkat 2/32) beat Mumbai Indians 181-9 in 20 overs (Dewald Brevis 31, Suryakumar Yadav 37, Tilak Varma 26; Avesh Khan 3/30) by 18 ru🐻ns.
Here’s how Twitter reacted:
Sixth straight defeat for in ! Need some rethinking by the paltan. Great win …in serious contention for the title!
— Harbhajan Turbanator (@harbhajan_singh)
This was always going to be tough as there is just Bumrah who is a wicket taker in any phase in this li൲ne-up. Still didn’t expect six defeats in a row for them.
— R P Singh रुद्र प्रताप सिंह (@rpsingh)
Lucknow is smiling and why wouldn’t they?? Pl🥀aying high quality cricket!
— Irfan Pathan (@IrfanPathan)
This is now the first time Mumbai Indians lost 6 consecutive IPL matche🅺s.
MI have lost 5 in a row twice – both streaks in 2014-15.
— Kausthub Gudipati (@kaustats)
KL Rahul 👌🏽
— Shai Hope (@shaidhope)
Dewald Brevis !! Best young player I have seen …
— Michael Vaughan (@MichaelVaughan)
Superb by KL Rahu💮l 👏�ꦫ�👏🏽👏🏽 💯 in his 100th game 😱
— Lisa Sthalekar (@sthalekar93)
KLASS written all over it ✍️ 👏 @klrahul11
— S.Badrinath (@s_badrinath)
A Super victory for the Super Giants.
We bounced back and bo🐟unced back hard! Onwards and upwards 😎💪🏻💪 🏆— Lucknow Super Giants (@LucknowIPL)
KL Rahul, playing 100th IPL match, scored hundred, won the match and player of the match award as well – dream day for KL Rahul.
— Johns. (@CricCrazyJohns)
Rohit: "If they play♉ good cricket, you🍰 have to applaud it. KL batted brilliantly."
— Mumbai Indians (@mipaltan)
batting in o꧅🐲verdrive always a thrilling sight except for the bowling side. looking hapless
— Cricketwallah (@cricketwallah)
