Akash Singh turned a league-stage IPL 2026 match into his own little stage on Friday night, taking three wickets for Lucknow Super Giants against Chennai Super Kings and then showing a handwritten note to every corner of the stadium after each breakthrough. The left-arm medium-fast bowler dismissed Ruturaj Gaikwad in the 3.5 over, removed Sanju Samson in the 5.3 over and then sent back Urvil Patel in the 7.2 over as Lucknow broke through key phases of the innings.
The note he held up each time read: “#Akki on fire - Akash knows how to take wickets in T20 game”. It was a brief, repeated celebration after each wicket, and it matched the numbers he left behind: 4-0-26-3 in his four-over spell, with an economy rate of 6.50. Gaikwad fell after scoring 13 off 9 balls, caught by Nicholas Pooran at mid-on. Samson made 20 off 20 before Mukul Choudhary took the catch in the deep. Patel’s stay ended on 6 off 7 balls, with Mitchell Marsh completing the dismissal at deep mid-wicket.
For Lucknow, the spell mattered because it cut through the middle and early parts of Chennai’s innings and removed three CSK batters in quick succession. Gaikwad and Samson were both gone before either could settle into the kind of long innings Chennai often builds around, and Patel’s dismissal closed another small escape route just as the pressure started to build. The wickets came one after another, and each time Singh made sure the crowd saw the same handwritten message.
That is what made the spell stand out: not just the three wickets, but the insistence on making each one public. In a format built on speed and noise, Singh leaned into both, and the result was a short burst of control that left Chennai with less time to recover and Lucknow with a bowler who had already made the night his own.
