Lucknow Super Giants have come to the Eden Gardens with two lovely little stories.

Shardul Thakur, unsold at the auction and coming into IPL-18 as an injury replacement, has made immediate impact.  The 33-year-old’s match-winning four wicket-haul against Sunrisers Hyderabad was followed last Friday by a telling 19th over in which he conceded just seven to shut out Mumbai Indians.
Then, there is 25-year-old Digvesh Rathi, Man of the Match in that MI game, who has played only a couple of T20 matches for Delhi before creating a flutter this IPL with his impressive leg-spin bowling and the cocky ‘signing off’ of dismissed batsmen.