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05/15 13:23 CDT Marsh blitz earns Lucknow big win and dents Chennai IPL playoff hopes Marsh blitz earns Lucknow big win and dents Chennai IPL playoff hopes LUCKNOW, India (AP) --- Mitchell Marsh deflated Chennai Super Kings with a blazing knock of 90 off 38 balls as the playoff chasers were blown away by Lucknow Super Giants in the Indian Premier League on Friday. Nicholas Pooran finished off Chennai with four consecutive sixes against Anshul Kamboj for Lucknow to cruise to 188-3 and a win by seven wickets with more than three overs to spare. Chennai put up 187-5 in what appeared to be an over-par total. Kartik Sharma hit 71 off 42 balls and impact player Shivam Dube enjoyed a 16-ball unbeaten 32. Chennai missed a chance to move into the top four playoff positions and slipped to sixth in the table. Lucknow was already out of the playoffs reckoning but entertained its home crowd with a fourth win from 12 games. Marsh teed off in the power play when he smashed Kamboj for four consecutive sixes and a boundary in a 28-run over. The fast bowler eventually finished with expensive figures of 0-63 off 2.4 overs. Marsh's blitz featured seven sixes and nine boundaries. Backed up by Josh Inglis (36), they put Lucknow within reach of victory with their quickfire 135-run opening stand. Both perished off successive deliveries in the 12th over. Inglis sliced Mukesh Choudhary to deep point and Choudhary deflected Pooran's hard drive back onto the non-striker's stumps that caught Marsh out of his crease. But the pair had done the hard work that Pooran capped in style to wrap up the win. ___ AP cricket: https://apnews.com/hub/cricket