IPL 2023: Mark Wood's fifer, Kyle Mayers' blazing 73 help Lucknow vanquish Delhi

A sensational 514 haul by English pacer Mark Wood after a blazing 38ball 73 by Kyle Mayers helped Lucknow Super Giants thrash Delhi Capitals by 50 runs in their opening IPL 2023 match at the Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Cricket Stadium here on SaturdayMark Woods two moraleshattering blows in his first over sent back opener Prithvi Shaw 12 and Mitchell Marsh 0as he left the Delhi Capitals rattled after they had made a good start in their chase of 194 in 20 overs racing to 40 off four oversBut before Mark Wood got into the act Kyle Mayers blazed to a halfcentury with boundaries as he lifted LSG after they lost skipper KL Rahul 8 with 19 runs on board Mayers brilliant batting and breezy cameos by Nicholas Pooran 36 and Ayush Badoni 18 helped LSG post 1936 in 20 overs scoring 63 runs in the last five oversMark Wood then got into the act and ended with figures of 40145 as Delhi Capitals could manage only 1439 in 20 overs skipper David Warners 48ball 56 going in vain as the rest of the batters failed to fireAlso Read IPL 2023 David Warner warning for LSGLucknow skipper KL Rahul brought Mark Wood in the fifth over and the English pacer made an immediate impact as he bowled Prithvi Shaw 12 and Mitchell Marsh 0 off successive deliveries beating the batsmen with sheer paceHe came back to claim the wickets of Sarfaraz Khan 4 Axar Patel 16 and Chetan Sakariya 4 the last two wickets in the final over of the innings getting his first fifer for Lucknow Super Giants as they restricted Delhi Capitals to 1439 after Kyle Mayers had slammed a 38ball 73 to help the hosts reach 1936 in 20 overs Wood just proved that there was no substitute for pace as he made all the difference for LSGSkipper David Warner who won the toss and elected the bowl first waged a lone battle for a 48ball 56 as Delhi Capitals struggled to get going Warner had expected the wicket to ease out in the second innings with the dew coming into play But the pitch had a lot to offer to the bowlers and the LSG bowlers especially Mark Wood bowled beautifully as they romped to victorySkipper David Warner held one end up with an uncharacteristic knock as he raised 38 runs for the fourth wicket partnership with Rilee Rossouw before the South African batter got out for 30 off 20 balls hitting three fours and one sixRossouw who smacked Ravi Bishnoi for two fours and a six in the 10th over and also pulled him to the midwicket boundary was out in bizarre fashion as he shuffled across to attempt a sweep Bishnoi but the ball hit the back of the bat on follow through and popped up for an easy catch by Kyle Mayers Rovman Powell 1 and Aman Khan the bighitting Impact Player was out for 4 as Delhi failed to make a chase of itWarner kept plodding around completing his halfcentury off 45 deliveries as Delhi Capitals struggled to get the ball off the square He had started by hitting Mayers for four off the third delivery of the opening over and handed the same treatment to Jaydev Unadkat pulling him through midfield He flicked Unadkat for another boundary in the same over and scored two more boundaries off the Saurashtra bowler in his second spellEarlier Mayers the 30yearold big lefthander from Barbados went ballistic after the initial period of cautious play as he hammered a flurry of sixes to slam a 38ball 73 that propped up the LSG inningsHe started by hitting a wide length ball by Mukesh Kumar 10yards behind the rope in the seventh over and then struck an even bigger six a ball later planting it into the second tierIn the next over Mayers struck Axar Patel for a four off the first delivery and then slogswept the next one flat over the head of Mitchell Marsh who had run five yards in from the backward square boundary and the ball sailed just over the ropeThe West Indies batter raced to his halfcentury off 28 balls with a six off Kuldeep Yadav and then smoked Axar Patel for backtoback sixes in the 10th over A massive flatdrive for a six off Kuldeep Yadav in the first delivery of the 11th over was his last big hit as he departed in the next over cleaned up by Axar Patel with one that turned big from a good length and into the stumps as Mayers attempted a cutHe added 79 runs for the second wicket partnership with Deepak Hooda in which the latter contributed only 17 runs before holing out a drive to Warner off Kuldeep YadavThe Delhi bowlers used the conditions well and pulled back things a bit after the Mayersfuelled LSG were 981 at the midway stage Khaleel Ahmed who was substituted by Aman Khan as Impact Player claimed 230 from his four oversBrief scoresLucknow Super Giants 1936 in 20 overs Kyle Mayers 73 Nicholas Pooran 36 Khaleel Ahmed 230 lost to Delhi Capitals 1439 in 20 overs David Warner 56 Rilee Rossouw 30 Mark Wood 514 Ravi Bishnoi 231 Avesh Khan 229 by 50 runsThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday 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