IPL 2026: LSG vs RCB, Match 50: Stats preview of players' records and…

The Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) will take on Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) in a reverse fixture on May 7 in the Indian Premier League 2026. The match will be played at the Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Cricket Stadium in Lucknow.

LSG are at the bottom of the points table, having managed just two wins from nine matches. They previously faced RCB earlier in the season, where they suffered a five-wicket defeat. With their playoff hopes hanging by a thread, they will be eager to deliver a strong performance and register their third win of the season. xsportfeed.quest

Meanwhile, RCB are placed second on the table with six wins from nine matches. However, they are coming off a four-wicket loss to the Gujarat Titans (GT). Determined to bounce back, RCB will aim to secure their seventh victory and further strengthen their position in the standings.

Here are the top upcoming stats and milestones from Match 50:

Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) players' upcoming milestones:

• Mitchell Marsh: Needs 2 fours to reach 500 fours in T20s
• Aiden Markram: Needs 18 runs to reach 6000 runs in T20s
• Nicholas Pooran: Needs 3 fours to reach 700 fours in T20s
• Nicholas Pooran is set to play his 100th IPL match
• Nicholas Pooran: Needs 62 runs to reach 2500 runs in IPL
• Himmat Singh: Needs 4 sixes to reach 50 sixes in T20s

Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) players' upcoming milestones:

• Virat Kohli: Needs 78 runs to reach 14000 runs in T20s
• Jacob Bethell: Needs 1 four to reach 150 fours in T20s
• Jacob Bethell: Needs 1 six to reach 100 sixes in T20s
• Rajat Patidar: Needs 10 fours to reach 100 fours in IPL
• Rajat Patidar: Needs 8 sixes to reach 100 sixes in IPL
• Jitesh Sharma: Needs 6 fours to reach 300 fours in T20s
• Romario Shepherd: Needs 6 sixes to reach 200 sixes in T20s
• Bhuvneshwar Kumar is set to play his 200th IPL match

London [UK], May 6 (ANI): Manchester United midfielder Casemiro has expressed his belief that the club should always aim for titles, despite their current position in third place in the ongoing English Premier League season.

Talking to ESPN, Casemiro reflected on United’s season and emphasised that, for a club of United’s stature, simply securing a top-four finish is not enough.

“When it comes to United, I always say that you have to think about titles, you always have to think about winning, about winning titles. Even more so, I’ve always liked to win titles, so I don’t think it’s an ideal season, but it’s a good season, especially because of the circumstances," Casemiro said.

He continued, “But, I say again, you have to think about titles — United can’t be content with third place. United must always be thinking about titles and thinking about winning at the top of the table. And that for me has to be United’s thinking, circumstances, third place, very good, playing Champions League next year is another European competition, but it has to be more — United must always be more."

The Brazilian midfielder, who has been pivotal in United’s midfield this season, also spoke about his future at the club. Casemiro, 34, made it clear that he intends to leave the club on his own terms, with his time at United coming to an end soon.

Casemiro moved from Real Madrid, where he won three LaLiga titles and the Champions League five times, to Manchester United, where he has just a League Cup and FA Cup medal to show for his four years at Old Trafford.

“I don’t think there’s a chance [that he stays], there’s no chance. Mostly because of what I said, you know? Go out the big door, I think it was four beautiful, wonderful years and I am eternally grateful not only to the club, but to the fans," he said.

Casemiro expressed his gratitude towards the club and its supporters, adding, “But I think I have to leave in good terms, I have to go out on top. I will be an eternal United fan here in England and I just have to thank all the love from the fans." (ANI)

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DC Capitals opener KL Rahul has been a revelation in the ongoing IPL season, combining consistency with a much higher strike rate (he has scored 433 runs in nine games at a strike rate of 185.84, averaging 54.13). And the India and Karnataka wicketkeeper-batter attributes his newfound approach to the game to fatherhood — his wife, Bollywood actor Athiya Shetty, gave birth to their first child, Evaarah, in March 2025.

“Fatherhood has been the most beautiful thing for me. When I see her smile, when she gives me a hug and a kiss, all my injuries, pain and worries, everything is forgotten. That [fatherhood] has helped my cricket over the last year. I don’t overthink the game anymore, which has made it exciting again,” Rahul, 34, told JioStar recently.

Mumbai Indians (MI) are still in the IPL-19 Playoff race mathematically, and the main reason for that is the “chemistry” between their openers Ryan Rickelton and Rohit Sharma. Rickelton (32-ball 83), who shared a 143-run opening stand with Rohit (44-ball 84) during MI’s six-wicket win over Lucknow Super Giants at the Wankhede Stadium on Monday night, credited the Mumbai stalwart for boosting his confidence in the middle.

“Rohit is just really good, that’s the chemistry right there. Obviously, nice to get up there again with him, he’s obviously been on the sidelines for a bit and to see him come back and play the way he did, so free-flowing, is something quite unique. We complement each other really nicely as left-hand, right-hand [batters],” Rickelton said during the post-match press conference on Monday night.

Rohit (221 runs in five games) smashed six boundaries and seven sixes in his comeback game after missing five matches this season due to a hamstring injury, while Rickelton became MI’s leading run-getter, with 380 runs from eight matches. The South African wicketkeeper-batter revealed how they built their record run chase of 229 runs against LSG.

“Sometimes, he [Rohit] gets away really quickly and takes a lot of pressure off me, and sometimes I get away quickly and take a lot of pressure off him. That was probably tonight, I got away. But coming back from five or six games, he gave himself a few balls to just get back to batting again in his routines, and then, obviously, transferring that pressure onto the bowlers. It’s a dream to watch. He gets some shots that I could only have in my wildest dreams. When he’s in full flow, it’s a treat that he takes the pressure off you, so I enjoy it,” remarked Rickelton, 29, who has represented SA in 15 Tests, 17 ODIs and 29 T20Is, scoring 897, 454 and 741 runs respectively

Interestingly, Rickelton has picked up some red-ball tips from Rohit too. “I probably picked his [Rohit’s] brain a bit more in the first year [2025], just about batting in general, not necessarily T20 batting — Tests and 50-over batting and the specifics of the mentality around it. He’s just a little different; one of the greatest to play the game,” said Rickelton.

MI have six points from three wins in 10 games so far and are in ninth position.

229
This is the highest successful run chase ever by MI

17
No. of sixes hit by MI against LSG on Monday — their joint second-most in an IPL innings

Six
No. of consecutive defeats for LSG — their longest ever losing streak

Mumbai Indians might not have been in such a precarious position as far as IPL playoffs qualification is concerned had former skipper Rohit Sharma recovered earlier from his hamstring injury, rued Harbhajan Singh. Rohit returned to action following an injury-enforced layoff with a strokeful 84 in MI`s highest-ever successful run-chase in the IPL in pursuit of 229 when they beat Lucknow Super Giants by six wickets here on Monday.

The former Mumbai Indians` skipper had missed in all five matches since leaving the field after suffering a hamstring injury while batting against Royal Challengers Bengaluru here on April 12. "It`s important to be in the middle. You can do only so much sitting in the dugout. But you can make a difference by being in the middle, and Rohit Sharma did exactly that," Harbhajan told JioHotstar. "You needed that foundation to chase down that many runs and he didn`t just lay the foundation, but built a couple of floors on it as well, leaving very little for the rest to do. It would have been even better if he had got his hundred, but for the time he was there, he played exceptionally well."

"I wish his injury had healed a little earlier. Who knows, they might have won a game or two during that losing streak and would have still been alive in the competition?" the former India spinner added. Harbhajan, who played for MI from the inaugural edition in 2008 to 2017, hoped the five-time champions would keep fighting hard in their remaining matches. With three wins and seven defeats in 10 matches, MI only have six points and need to win each of their remaining four to remain alive.

"They will give themselves a chance if they win every game from here and get to 14 points. Who knows, if other teams start losing, there could be a net run-rate situation at 14 points, anything can happen," Harbhajan said. Meanwhile, former India head coach Ravi Shastri said LSG paid a price of being inconsistent. "The problem with LSG is that when their bowling unit performs, the batters fail to back it up, and when the batters score runs, the bowlers go for plenty. There`s no consistency," Shastri said.

"Six losses in a row can really dent a side`s confidence, and even in games where you are in a comfortable position, there are thoughts like, `Will we win, won`t we?` You are 100 for one in 7 overs, and in the next 13 overs, you score less than 130, which means you have faltered." "You won`t get better batting conditions than this. They`ll have to sit down and think about what went wrong in the last three overs while batting, and how they can tighten up their bowling."

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