IPL 2024: Why is Mayank Yadav not playing IPL 2024 Match 54 between LSG vs KKR?

The Match No. 54 of the ongoing Indian Premier League 2024 saw the Lucknow Super Giants win the toss and bowl first against Kolkata Knight Riders at the Eden Gardens, Kolkata. The LSG skipper, KL Rahul, at the toss, announced that express pacer Mayank Yadav won't be taking part in the all-important clash on Sunday, May 05. The captain further revealed that Vidarbha pacer Yash Thakur will feature in Yadav's place.

“We will bowl first. I'm not a best reader of a wicket, we just like chasing. The good thing is we have been able to adapt really well and quickly to the conditions, there have been quite a few brilliant individual performances as well. There's been a lot of talk about strike-rate, and T20 cricket has changed a lot in the last couple of years. He was injured in the last game, Yash Thakur comes in for Mayank Yadav,” Rahul said at the toss.

The actual reason for Mayank's ouster was because of the injury he sustained in LSG's previous encounter against Mumbai Indians. The Uttar Pradesh pacer had to leave the field midway, and could not take further part in the game. As a result, the Super Giants are unable to field the speedster for the clash against Knight Riders.

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Lucknow Super Giants (Playing XI): KL Rahul(w/c), Marcus Stoinis, Deepak Hooda, Nicholas Pooran, Ashton Turner, Ayush Badoni, Krunal Pandya, Ravi Bishnoi, Naveen-ul-Haq, Mohsin Khan, Yash Thakur

Subs: Arshin Kulkarni, Manimaran Siddharth, Krishnappa Gowtham, Yudhvir Singh, Devdutt Padikkal

KKR enter the contest unchanged

“We would have bowled as well. Defending that total with five bowlers in the last game gives us a lot of confidence. There's a lot of self-belief in the team. We are playing with the same team. Hopefully we continue with the same form. He has been optimistic from game one and just that he wasn't able to execute. He (Venkatesh Iyer) got tremendous and character and happy for the way he executed. It's important to stay in the present,” KKR skipper Shreyas Iyer said at the toss.

Kolkata Knight Riders (Playing XI): Philip Salt(w), Sunil Narine, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Shreyas Iyer(c), Venkatesh Iyer, Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Ramandeep Singh, Mitchell Starc, Varun Chakaravarthy, Harshit Rana

Impact Subs: Anukul Roy, Manish Pandey, Srikar Bharat, Sherfane Rutherford, Vaibhav Arora