to bowl after his back problems<\/a>, but went for 28 off his two overs, KKR’s most expensive bowler as they suffered their third-straight loss to start the campaign.<\/p>\nGreen picked up a wicket with just his second delivery of the tournament, when Lucknow’s skipper Rishabh Pant was caught off a top edge as the visiting side slipped to 7-128 prior to Choudhary’s match-winning effort.<\/p>\n
Earlier, No.4 Green joined forces with West Indies powerhouse Rovman Powell to help lift KKR to a competitive total after they were reduced to 4-111 following skipper Ajinkya Rahane’s 41 from 24 balls and Angkrish Raghuvanshi’s 45.<\/p>\n
The West Australian took 15 balls to find his first boundary before finishing with three fours and a six from his 24 deliveries faced, the latter a glorious blow over long on off veteran Mohammed Shami.<\/p>\n
Powell also faced 24 balls to contributed 39 not out in their unbroken 70-run stand.<\/p>\n
When Lucknow chased, Australia’s T20 skipper Mitch Marsh went for 15 off 11 balls at the top of the order but Ayush Badoni’s 54 followed by Choudhary’s amazing knock proved enough to propel them to fifth in the table.<\/p>\n
IPL 2026 standings<\/p>\n
Legend<\/p>\n
M: Matches played<\/p>\n
W: Wins<\/p>\n
L: Losses<\/p>\n
T: Ties<\/p>\n
N\/R: No results<\/p>\n
NRR: Net Run Rate<\/p>\n
Ded.: Deductions<\/p>\n
PTS: Total points<\/p>\n
Australians in IPL 2026<\/p>\n
Chennai Super Kings: Matt Short ($255k), Spencer Johnson ($255k, replaces Nathan Ellis ($340k))<\/p>\n
Delhi Capitals: Mitchell Starc ($2m)<\/p>\n
Royal Challengers Bengaluru: Josh Hazlewood ($2.13m), Tim David ($510k)<\/p>\n
Punjab Kings: Marcus Stoinis ($1.9m), Ben Dwarshuis ($745k), Mitchell Owen ($510k), Cooper Connolly ($510k), Xavier Bartlett ($136k)<\/p>\n
Kolkata Knight Riders: Cameron Green ($3.5m)<\/p>\n
Sunrisers Hyderabad: Pat Cummins ($3.5m), Travis Head ($2.38m), Jack Edwards ($510k, withdrawn)<\/p>\n
Lucknow Super Giants: Josh Inglis ($1.49m), Mitchell Marsh ($578k)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mukul Choudhary smashed 30 from the final two overs to inspire Justin Langer’s Lucknow to an unlikely IPL…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":596686,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85,83],"class_list":["post-596685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-text"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=596685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/596686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}