All-round Krunal Stars as Lucknow Super Giants Crush Sunrisers Hyderabad

Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) defeated Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) by 5 wickets as Krunal Pandya starred with the bat and ball in match quantity 10 of the Indian Premier League (IPL) on the Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Cricket Stadium in Lucknow on Friday.

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Chasing a low complete, SRH bought a glimmer of hope that they might defend their modest sore when Kyle Mayers was caught by Mayank Agarwal off the bowling of Fazalhaq Farooqi.

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Deepak Hooda falling to a caught and bowled by Bhuvneshwar Kumar gave them extra hope.

Then Krunal joined his skipper KL Rahul on the crease. The pair joined fingers to sew a superbly labored partnership to get their aspect shut. He was dismissed near the tip of the chase by Umran Malik with Anmolpreet Singh finishing the catch. He scored a brisk 23-ball 34.

KL was trapped by Adil Rashid and on the very subsequent ball bought Romario Shepherd the identical method.

Marcus Stoinis and Nicholas Pooran stayed collectively until the tip to seal the win relatively comfortably.

Earlier, Left-arm spin all-rounder Krunal decide up three wickets as LSG restricted SRH Hyderabad to a modest 121/8 on a sluggish black-soil pitch. Krunal was undoubtedly the decide of the bowlers for Lucknow, continually attacking the stumps to choose a tidy 3-18 in his 4 overs. Veteran leg-spinner Amit Mishra took 2-23 whereas Ravi Bishnoi and Yash Thakur chipped in with a scalp every.

Lucknow drew first blood within the third over as Mayank Agarwal went for an uppish drive in opposition to Krunal, however he was undone by the flight and ended up giving a tame chip to cowl. Anmolpreet Singh bought some boundaries in opposition to spinners as effectively as Thakur with a beautiful punch, sweep and chip over mid-off.

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Though Anmolpreet survived an lbw enchantment off Thakur within the last over of Power-play, he didn’t have the identical luck within the eighth over as Krunal trapped him lbw with a flatter and faster supply on stumps going previous the bat to hit the again pad.

On the very subsequent ball, Pandya’s tossed-up supply stored low and skidded previous Aiden Markram’s bat to rattle his off-stump, sending the SRH skipper again for a golden duck.

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Bishnoi entered the wicket-takers column by organising Harry Brook with three consecutive fast googlies earlier than the leg-break was slipped in to beat an advancing Brook on the skin edge and have him stumped simply.

Rahul Tripathi and Washington Sundar went on the defensive to sew a 39-run partnership off 50 balls. Tripathi bought some boundaries via the off-side, together with off a reverse sweep, to offer the rating a push.

But in a bid to ramp off Thakur within the 18th over, Tripathi was caught by Mishra at quick third man, diving full size to his left to seize a shocking catch with each fingers. In the subsequent over, Mishra had Sundar and Adil Rashid holing out to long-on and long-off respectively.

It took Abdul Samad’s cameo of 21 off 10 balls, together with two sixes off Jaydev Unadkat within the last over, to assist SRH cross 120-mark on a sluggish and low pitch.

(With inputs from Agencies)

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