LSG vs RR Match Result: Rajasthan Royals Bounce Back With a 40-Run Win Over Lucknow Super Giants 🏏🔥

INTRO

Rajasthan Royals ended their losing slide with a hard, disciplined win over Lucknow Super Giants at Ekana. RR posted 159/6 in 20 overs after recovering from an ugly top-order collapse, then bowled LSG out for 119 in 18 overs to seal a 40-run victory. The match turned on two phases: Ravindra Jadeja’s recovery innings of 43 off 29* after RR fell to 32/3, and then a new-ball burst from Nandre Burger and Jofra Archer that left Lucknow in ruins at 11/3.

The official scorecard and match reports confirm the essentials below.

RR innings: early collapse, then Jadeja rebuilt the match

Rajasthan did not begin like a side headed for victory. Yashasvi Jaiswal came out fast and made 22 off 12, but RR crashed from 32/0 to 32/3 in the space of seven balls. Mohammed Shami removed Jaiswal and Dhruv Jurel in successive deliveries, while Mohsin Khan dismissed Vaibhav Sooryavanshi after a pressure-building sequence. Cricbuzz’s report described it as a Powerplay collapse, and the phase numbers support that exactly: RR were only 44/3 in the powerplay.

That left Ravindra Jadeja with the job of rebuilding a damaged innings on a slow Ekana surface. He did it properly. Jadeja remained not out on 43 from 29 balls, scored at 148.28, and absorbed pressure while the innings was unstable. Riyan Parag added 20 off 19, Shimron Hetmyer made 22 off 18, and Donovan Ferreira contributed 20 off 19, but Jadeja was the one who held the structure together from collapse to finish. The official IPL report says he mixed caution with calculated aggression, and that description fits the innings perfectly.

The most important late acceleration came after the fifth wicket. RR were 77/5 when Hetmyer fell, which meant even 150 was not guaranteed. Jadeja then stitched together a 33-run stand with Donovan Ferreira and a 49-run unbroken stand with Shubham Dubey, who made 19 off 11*. The official IPL report notes that the final over yielded 20 runs, and that last surge is what lifted RR from a middling total to one that became clearly defendable on this surface.

The full RR batting card comes from the scorecard.

LSG with the ball: strong control, except at the death

Lucknow’s bowlers actually did a lot right for most of the innings. Mohsin Khan was excellent with 2/17 in 4 overs, including a maiden, while Shami and Prince Yadav both picked up two wickets each. Digvesh Singh Rathi also kept things reasonably tight with 0/26 in 4 overs. The official IPL report and Cricbuzz both make the same point: LSG bowled with discipline through most phases, but the late lapse — especially the 20-run final over — cost them the chance to keep RR closer to 145.

The LSG bowling figures below are from the scorecard.

LSG chase: 11/3, then only Mitchell Marsh resisted

If RR’s innings began badly, LSG’s chase began disastrously. Ayush Badoni was run out for 0 in the first over, Rishabh Pant fell for 0 to Nandre Burger, and Aiden Markram made 0 before edging Jofra Archer. By 2.5 overs, Lucknow were 11/3. The official IPL report describes the home side as “stunned,” and there is no better word for it — the chase was broken almost before it had started.

Nicholas Pooran and Mitchell Marsh gave LSG a route back with a 43-run stand, and Marsh was clearly the one batter who looked capable of dragging the game somewhere competitive. He made 55 off 41, hitting 6 fours and 2 sixes, while Pooran added 22 off 25. But even during that recovery, the scoring rate never truly escaped RR’s grip. Cricbuzz’s phase split shows LSG made 68/2 in the middle overs, which was respectable, but not enough to fully undo the wreckage of 11/3.

Once Pooran fell to Jadeja at 54/4, the chase slipped again. Himmat Singh made 15, Mukul Choudhary scored 7 off 3, and Mohammed Shami hit 6 off 4, but this was not a lower-order counterattack — it was survival around Marsh. When Marsh finally fell for 55 at 105/6, the contest was effectively done. LSG then lost their last five wickets for only 14 runs, and the innings ended at 119 all out in 18 overs.

The full LSG batting card comes from the scorecard.

RR with the ball: pace won the new ball, then everyone contributed

Rajasthan’s bowling unit won this match by operating in sequence. Burger struck twice early, Archer removed Markram and then came back to finish with 3/20, and Jadeja added the key wicket of Pooran right when the chase still had a pulse. Ravi Bishnoi chipped in with Himmat’s wicket, and Brijesh Sharma removed Mukul Choudhary and Shami as the collapse accelerated. Cricbuzz summarized it as a “collective bowling show,” and that is the correct reading: no single spell did all the work, but the attack never let LSG stabilize for long enough.

The RR bowling figures below are from the scorecard.

Match phases table ⚡

Cricbuzz’s phase split is especially useful here because it captures exactly where the match drifted away from Lucknow. RR lost the powerplay on wickets, but recovered better through the middle and finished far stronger at the death. LSG, by contrast, never repaired the damage from the opening overs and collapsed again late.

What the result means

Cricbuzz’s report says the win pushed Rajasthan Royals up to second place in the standings and ended a sequence of two successive losses. For Lucknow, the same report notes they were bundled out for 119 and slipped to their fifth defeat in seven games, which makes the batting failure more serious than just one bad night. This was not a thriller stolen late; it was a controlled away win built on better recovery with the bat and much sharper discipline with the ball.

Final verdict

Rajasthan won this match because they were the calmer side in both collapses. RR were 32/3 and still found a path to 159/6 through Jadeja’s control and a sharp finish. LSG were 11/3 and never found anything close to that level of recovery, even with Marsh making a fighting fifty. On a pitch where 159 should have kept the game open, RR made it feel much bigger by attacking early, defending smartly, and crushing the chase in pieces rather than all at once.