Kyle Mayers

Lucknow Super Giants' new recruit Kyle Mayers says he has “shown his worth” after firing the opening salvo for his team with a scintillating 38-ball 73 in ...

I didn’t get the game last year but I learnt a lot just to be part of this atmosphere. “I was here last year but didn’t get the opportunity to play. It was a slow start as we were trying to understand how the pitch was reacting and trying to adapt.

It was the lucky day for Englishman Mark Wood, who dominated the game as he took 5 wickets for LSG, while West Indies star batter Kyle Mayers scored 72 runs ...

Kyle Mayers played an absolute blinder, scoring 73 runs off 38 deliveries as Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) started their innings against the Delhi Capitals on ...

Lucknow will now face the uphill task of accommodating Mayers in the XI when South African opener Quinton de Kock joins the squad after rounding off his international commitments. https://twitter.com/CricCrazyJohns/status/1642176125295288322?s=20 https://twitter.com/IPL/status/1642176178248380416?s=20 https://twitter.com/CricCrazyJohns/status/1642178953434767360?s=20 https://twitter.com/mufaddal_vohra/status/1642179282666651650?s=20 However, he accelerated straight from the seventh over onwards and hit multiple maximums off Mukesh Kumar, Axar Patel, and Kuldeep Yadav.

The left-hander from Barbados, who was included in absence of South African opener Quinton De Kock, made Capitals pay a heavy price for dropping him on 14, ...

Thereafter, it was his West Indies teammate Nicholas Pooran who seized the momentum in his 21-ball 36 (2X4, 3X6) as he along with Krunal Pandya kept the run flow. Deepak Hooda (17, 18b) at the other end was a mere spectator to Mayers' fury as they stitched 79 runs in 42 balls to accelerate the run rate in the middle overs. But LSG maintained the momentum with Nicholas Pooran (36; 21b) and Krunal Pandya (15 not out; 13b) taking the charge, before Ayush Badoni's mini assault (18; 7b, 1×4, 2×6) and a last ball six from 'Impact Substitute' Krishnappa Gowtham yielded 22 runs from the 20th over bowled by Chetan Sakariya (2/53).

It was one fielding error that would skew Saturday's IPL match between Lucknow Super Giants and Delhi Capitals in the former's favour, as KL Rahul's side ...

[David Warner](https://indianexpress.com/about/david-warner/) went on to hit a 48-ball 56. That leaves space for only one international specialist bowler, who, in this case, would hammer the ultimate nail in [Delhi](https://indianexpress.com/section/cities/delhi/)’s coffin. His storming innings set the stage for fellow West Indian Nicholas Pooran to finish the job with a quick-fire 36 from 21 balls with the help of an Ayush Badoni cameo (complete with a 97-metre six) at the death, as the home team amassed 193/6 in their allotted overs. His varied arsenal was on full display, manipulating the crease and getting runs all round the ground with cuts, drives, and slog sweeps. The most striking aspect of Mayers’ strokeplay was his all-out attack against the spinners, slapping Lucknow ended the Powerplay at 30-1 after a laborious start, after Rahul had just been caught at deep backward square leg, misjudging a slower one from Chetan Sakariya.