{"id":571916,"date":"2026-05-07T23:04:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T23:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/571916\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T23:04:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T23:04:11","slug":"ipl-2026-jacob-bethell-fails-after-injury-scare-in-royal-challengers-bengaluru-defeat-by-lucknow-super-giants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/571916\/","title":{"rendered":"IPL 2026: Jacob Bethell fails after injury scare in Royal Challengers Bengaluru defeat by Lucknow Super Giants"},"content":{"rendered":"

England batter Jacob Bethell was dismissed cheaply after an injury scare as Royal Challengers Bengaluru were beaten by bottom-of-the-table Lucknow Super Giants<\/a> in the Indian Premier League.<\/p>\n

Bethell, whose participation in the tournament has been debated in recent weeks<\/a>, injured a finger attempting a catch as Mitchell Marsh’s century helped LSG pile up 209-3 in 19 overs in between rain delays.<\/p>\n

He left the field for treatment but was able to open the batting. <\/p>\n

The left-hander made 14, 20 and five in his previous innings at this year’s IPL and this time was caught for four from five balls slicing a catch to deep third.<\/p>\n

Former captain Sir Alastair Cook was among those to suggest the 22-year-old should be playing county cricket in preparation for England’s Test series against New Zealand next month.<\/p>\n

Australian Marsh’s century came from 49 balls, the fastest by a Lucknow player in the IPL. Their next highest scorer was West Indian Nicholas Pooran with 38.<\/p>\n

RCB’s target was adjusted to 213 in 19 overs because of the rain but the defending champions lost Bethell and Virat Kohli for a two-ball duck in the first two overs.<\/p>\n

RCB needed 91 from the last six overs before hitting from Tim David, Krunal Pandya and Romario Shepherd kept them in the contest.<\/p>\n

They required a further 20 from the last over but managed only 10. Lucknow won by nine runs via the Duckworth-Lewis-Stern method to end a six-match losing run.<\/p>\n

Lucknow remain bottom of the standings but are now level on points with Mumbai Indians. RCB are third having missed the chance to go top.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England batter Jacob Bethell was dismissed cheaply after an injury scare as Royal Challengers Bengaluru were beaten by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":571917,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-571916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=571916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/571917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}