Nicholas Pooran scored the fastest fifty of the IPL season 2025. He, along with M Marsh, put on a 100-run partnership to register Lucknow Super Giants’ first win in the tournament.
Lucknow Super Giants won the toss and decided to bowl. Sunrisers Royal Hyderabad started their innings, but Shardul Thakur in his second over sent Abhishek and Ishan back to the pavilion in two consecutive balls. Reddy and Travis Head put on 61 runs when T Head was bowled by Prince. H Klassen and A Verma added quick runs, and with 4 balls, 18 runs by Captain Cummins in the last few overs to take the SRH score to 190 with loss of 9 wickets. Shardul Thakur picked up 4 wickets for LSG. 190 at Hyderabad was below par score at this ground.
Fastest Fifty of the Season
| Match No 7 | ||||
| RG International Hyderabad | 27 Mar 2025 | Toss-LSG | ||
| SRH | LSG | LSG won by 5 wicket | ||
| 190/9 (20) | 193/5(16.1) | |||
| T Head- 47(28) Aniket V- 36(13) N Reddy- 32(28) | Shardul T- 4/34 (4) Prince Y-1/29 (4) Digvesh S -1/40 (4) | N Pooran -70(26) M Marsh – 52(31) A Samad – 22*(8) | P Cummins- 2/29(3) H. Patel- 1/28(2) M Shami-1/37 (3) | POTM-Shardul Thakur |
LSG started a chase to register their first win after a surprise loss in their first match against DC. Opener Markram was sent back to the pavilion in the second over. Nicholas Pooran joined M Marsh and both added 116 runs by 8,4 overs when Pooran was found leg before by M Shami. Nicholas Pooran scored the fastest fifty of the IPL 2025. He got to his fifty in just 18 balls. M Marsh had 52 runs in 31 balls, and LSG needed to run a ball. Abdul Samad finished the match in 16.1 overs with a cameo of 22 in 8 balls.
Lucknow Super Giants registered their first win with 5 wickets with 23 balls to be bowled. Shardul Thakur was declared Player of the Match for his 4/34 in 4 Overs.
| INDIAN PREMIER LEAGUE | ||||||||
| Rank | Team | Played | Won | Loss | NR | Points | NRR | Remarks |
| 1 | RCB | 1 | 1 | 0 | – | 2 | +2.137 | |
| 2 | LSG | 2 | 1 | 1 | – | 2 | +0.963 | |
| 3 | PB | 1 | 1 | 0 | – | 2 | +0.550 | |
| 4 | CSK | 1 | 1 | 0 | – | 2 | +0.493 | |
| 5 | DC | 1 | 1 | 0 | – | 2 | +0.371 | |
| 6 | SRH | 2 | 1 | 1 | – | 2 | -0.128 | |
| 6 | KKR | 2 | 1 | 1 | – | 2 | -0.308 | |
| 8 | MI | 1 | 0 | 1 | – | 0 | -0.493 | |
| 9 | GT | 1 | 0 | 1 | – | 0 | -0.550 | |
| 10 | RR | 2 | 0 | 2 | – | 0 | -1.882 | |