After the loss against LSG, RR captain Sanju said that "we need to play smart cricket".

In the 26th match of IPL 2023, Lucknow Super Giants tasted a 10-run defeat to Rajasthan Royals with the help of a half-century by Kyle Mayers and 3 wickets by Avesh Khan. After this defeat, Rajasthan captain Sanju Samson said that we will definitely learn from the defeat and move forward.

"We will definitely take lessons and move on. With our batting line-up, 155 was a chaseable target. They bowled well. We need to play smart cricket and were going well till 9-10. Then It was about getting one big over in the middle phase. We did a good job of restricting them to that score." 

Batting first, Lucknow Super Giants scored 154 runs losing 7 wickets in 20 overs. Opener Kyle Meyers scored the maximum 51 (42) runs from the team. In this innings, he hit 4 fours and 3 sixes. Apart from him, captain KL Rahul played an inning of 39(32). In this innings, he hit 4 fours and a six. Both shared an 82 (65) run partnership for the first wicket. Ravichandran Ashwin took maximum 2 wickets from Rajasthan side. At the same time, Sandeep Sharma, Trent Boult and Jason Holder added one wicket each to their account. 

Chasing the target, the Rajasthan team managed to score only 144 runs in 20 overs losing 6 wickets. In this match, maximum 44(35) runs came from the bat of Yashasvi Jaiswal. In this innings, he also hit 4 fours and 2 sixes. At the same time, Jose Butler contributed 40 (40) runs. In this innings, he hit 4 fours and a six. Avesh Khan took the most wickets from Lucknow. He took 3 wickets for 25 runs in his quota of 4 overs. Marcus Stoinis was also successful in taking 2 wickets.