Stoinis stars in IPL thriller after rapid Maxwell fifty

Nicholas Pooran hit the fastest fifty of the 2023 Indian Premier League as Marcus Stoinis's Lucknow Super Giants grabbed a run off the final ball to beat Glenn Maxwell's Royal Challengers Bangalore by one wicket.

Lucknow reached 9-213 in a nervy final over on Monday, just overhauling Bangalore's challenging total of 2-212 by scrambling a bye from the final ball of the match.

Needing five off Harshal Patel's last over, Lucknow lost the wickets of Mark Wood and Jaydev Unadkat and needed one run from the final ball with one wicket left.

Patel missed an opportunity to run out Ravi Bishnoi at the non-striker's end which would have thrown the game into the Super Over but he missed the stumps with Bishnoi out of his ground backing up.

Last-wicket pair of Avesh Khan and Bishnoi then scampered for a bye as wicketkeeper Dinesh Karthik failed to gather the ball cleanly.

Lucknow had all but sealed the game on the back of Pooran's 19-ball knock of 62 that featured seven sixes and four boundaries. 

But Pooran's dismissal in the 17th over brought Bangalore back into the game with Lucknow needing 24 runs off the last three overs.

Pooran, who hit this season's fastest half-century off 15 balls, holed out at deep square leg off a high full toss from Mohammed Siraj (3-22).

Siraj and South African Wayne Parnell (3-41), who last played an IPL game in 2014, had put Lucknow on the back foot with their early breakthroughs.

But Stoinis revived the chase with an aggressive 65 off 30 balls and then Pooran's powerful strikes dented Bangalore further as spinner Karn Sharma went for 1-48 off his three overs.

"The way Stoinis and Pooran played, if we have two points today it's because of them," Lucknow skipper KL Rahul said.

Earlier, Bangalore were put in and scored heavily with Faf du Plessis was unbeaten on 79 off 46 while Virat Kohli (61 off 44) and Maxwell (59 off 29) also struck rapid half-centuries.

Kohli and du Plessis punished fast bowler Avesh (0-53) before Amit Mishra broke the stand when Kohli was caught at deep midwicket in the 12th over after adding 96 runs for the first wicket.

Maxwell then smashed six sixes and three boundaries in his rapid knock before he was bowled off the penultimate delivery from Mark Wood.

"(We're) disappointed, I mean obviously they played really well through the middle there but I thought we fought back beautifully," du Plessis said. "I threw all our weapons we had at them."

Lucknow are top the table with six points from four games as Bangalore slipped to seventh with one win from three matches.

Aussies in IPL 2023

Delhi Capitals: Mitch Marsh ($1.2m), David Warner ($1.16m)

Gujarat Titans: Matthew Wade ($446,000)

Lucknow Super Giants: Marcus Stoinis ($1.7m), Daniel Sams ($135,000)

Mumbai Indians: Tim David ($1.53m), Cameron Green ($3.15m), Jason Behrendorff ($135,000)

Punjab Kings: Nathan Ellis ($135,000), Matt Short ($36,000)

Rajasthan Royals: Adam Zampa ($270,000)

Royal Challengers Bangalore: Josh Hazlewood ($1.4m), Glenn Maxwell ($2m)

Figures represent auction price in Australian dollars at time of sale