Kohli silences sceptics with dazzling century after back-to-back ducks<\/a><\/p>\nLucknow Super Giants’ Australian cricket player Mitchell Marsh plays a shot during the 2026 IP) T20 match between Lucknow Super Giants and Chennai Super Kings.Source: AFP<\/p>\n
With their best bowler neutralised, Chennai caved in, their designs of breaking into the top four for the first time since the tournament began emphatically dashed.<\/p>\n
Inglis and Marsh raced to an opening alliance of 135 in just 70 deliveries when, against the run of play, the former was caught in the deep off Choudhary.<\/p>\n
One brought two when Marsh was dismissed next ball. New batter Nicholas Pooran\u2019s straight drive was deflected on to the stumps at the non-striker\u2019s end by the bowler with Marsh, backing up, well short of his ground, 10 short of a third IPL hundred.<\/p>\n
\u201cNice to get a win, few and far in between for us this season,\u201d said Marsh, the obvious choice for the player of the match award.<\/p>\n
\u201cJosh Inglis takes the pressure off me. Having grown up together playing for Western Australia, we know each other well and it was a good partnership tonight.\u201d Lucknow, already eliminated from the playoff race, weren\u2019t to be denied as Pooran applied the finishing touches.<\/p>\n
Their fourth win notwithstanding, they still remained rooted to the bottom of the table.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australian opener Mitchell Marsh missed out on a second IPL century in three innings, though his brutal 90…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":673732,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[192364,19526,1724,64,63,689,284078,129295,325033,43215,740,325036,325032,325031,68534,5330,24270,22256,279328,224648,14477,10479,677,15299,210719,320150,43196,325037,88445,325034,12540,85,109024,325035,303146,3439],"class_list":["post-673731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-akash-singh","tag-andrew-flintoff","tag-asia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-australian-cricket-player","tag-australian-opener","tag-blistering-knock-sets","tag-chennai-super-kings","tag-cricket","tag-cruel-fashion","tag-final-over-nightmare","tag-four-over-new-ball-burst","tag-grandstand-finish","tag-head-coach","tag-home-side","tag-josh-inglis","tag-kartik-sharma","tag-match-award","tag-mitchell-marsh","tag-nicholas-pooran","tag-oceania","tag-pakistan","tag-playoff-race","tag-rare-win","tag-sanju-samson","tag-seven-wicket-victory","tag-shivam-dube","tag-silences-sceptics","tag-southern-asia","tag-sports","tag-sydney-thunder","tag-trademark-power","tag-urvil-patel","tag-western-australia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673731","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=673731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/673732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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