In the 54th match of the Indian Premier League 2024 (IPL 2024), Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) faced Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR). At the Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Bajpayee Ekana Cricket Stadium, Lucknow won the toss and decided to bowl and Kolkata, playing first, scored 235 runs for 6 wickets in 20 overs. Sunil Narine scored 81 runs on 39 balls. Angkrish Raghuvanshi and Phil Salt scored 32-32 runs. Ramandeep Singh remained unbeaten after scoring 25 runs on 6 balls. Naveen Ul Haq took 3 wickets for Lucknow. Yash Thakur, Ravi Bishnoi and Yudhveer Charak took 1 wicket each.

Opening the innings for Lucknow, Angkrish Kulkarni played an inning of 9 runs in this match while captain KL Rahul went on to score 25 runs on 21 balls. Stoinis scored 36 runs while Deepak Hooda scored 5 runs while Nicholas Pooran also surrendered for 10 runs. In this match, Ayush Badoni scored 15 runs, Aston Turner scored 16 runs and Krunal Pandya scored 5 runs. Lucknow had got a big target of 236 runs in this match to win, but in front of the strong bowling of KKR, this team was all out for 137 runs in 16.1 overs and lost by 98 runs. For KKR, Harshit Rana and Varun Chakraborty took 3 wickets each, while Andre Russell took two wickets and Starc and Sunil Narine got one wicket each.

KKR won the 8th match out of 11 and now with 16 points this team has come at number one in the points table whereas Lucknow got defeated for the 5th time in the 11th match and with 10 points this team has now come at number 5.