Bollywood star Athiya Shetty made her first look at an Indian Premier League (IPL) 2023 sport this season, turning up on the Sawai Mansingh Stadium in Jaipur on Wednesday to look at her husband KL Rahul’s Lucknow Super Giants in motion in opposition to the Rajasthan Royals. Rahul and LSG each didn’t disappoint Athiya as they surprised IPL 2022 runners-up Royals to emerge victorious by 10 runs.
Athiya, who celebrated a low-key thirty first birthday of husband KL Rahul only a day earlier than the IPL 2023 match, was delighted to look at the LSG skipper in motion as he placed on 82 runs for the first wicket with Kyle Mayers. Rahul scored 39 off 32 balls which included a 103m six off Rajasthan Royals leg-spinner Yuzvendra Chahal as properly.
Off the fifth ball of the ninth over of the sport, KL Rahul slog swept Chahal over mid-wicket for an enormous six and Athiya Shetty couldn’t maintain calm and was seen loudly cheering for her husband because the cameraman panned on her.
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Royals did properly to limit LSG to 154 after the stable opening stand between Rahul and Mayers, who hit his third fifty of the IPL 2023. But LSG managed to limit Sanju Samson’s aspect to 144 for six to publish their fourth win of the season.
‘Sanju Samson run-out was turning point’
Rahul felt that the turning level of the match was Samson’s run out for two after the Royals had received off to a stable begin because of openers Yashasvi Jaiswal and Jos Buttler. “That Samson run out and two wickets falling back-to-back lets you to come back into the game. RR’s top three-four are really strong and our plan was to get them out early, and it came via a run-out today,” Rahul stated on the post-match presentation.
The LSG skipper had performed out a maiden over to Royals pacer Trent Boult to start out the match however revealed that the par-score for the Jaipur pitch was round 165. “At the 10-over mark, the message we sent out was that maybe 165 is a good total, so, let us try to get to 160. Did not have to set ourselves very high. They are a quality team, they have good bowlers. We fell 10 runs short maybe but we made it up with the ball in the end. There was no dew and that was fair on both teams,” Rahul added.
