LSG struggles come to the fore in easy win for Capitals

A brilliant spell of bowling by Mukesh saw the home team crash to another loss

- Sharad Deep

LUCKNOW: The Lucknow Super Giants' struggles at home continued as Delhi Capitals romped home to an eight-wicket win at the Ekana Stadium on Tuesday.

Despite having a good start, LSG only managed to put 159/6 on the board as boundaries proved to be hard to come by. They were 87/0 at the halfway mark but were restricted to just 72 runs in the last 10 overs.

The track seemed to ease out when Delhi Capitals came out to bat and the visitors cruised to victory in just 17.5 overs, losing only the wickets of Karun Nair and Abishek Porel in the process.

While Nair made 15 with two boundaries and a six, Porel hit his first half-century of the season, scoring a fine 36-ball 51 with the help of five hits to the boundary line and a six.

Thereafter, LSG's former skipper KL Rahul let his willow do the talking, scoring an unbeaten 57 (42b, 3x4, 3x6) -- his third half-century of the season. He finished off the match in style by hitting a six off Prince Yadav and also became the fastest to score 5000 IPL runs.