On Wednesday (May 8), the 57th Indian Premier League match between Lucknow Super Giants and Sunrisers Hyderabad befell at Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Hyderabad the place LSG gained the toss and opted to bat. LSG posted 165 runs for the loss of 4 wickets of their 20 overs. In response, SRH chased down the goal in simply 9.4 overs with 10 wickets in hand.
After opting to bat first, none of the LSG batters, aside from Ayush Badoni (55 off 30) and Nicholas Pooran (48 off 26), confirmed any intent. Their skipper KL Rahul might solely rating 29 runs off 33 balls whereas Quinton de Kock and Marcus Stoinis bought out early. On the opposite, the SRH openers Travis Head and Abhishek Sharma bought off to a superb begin as they amassed 107 runs in powerplay in contrast to LSG who couldn’t even go previous the 50-run mark.
Matthew Hayden, former Australian participant, blamed the LSG batters for his or her lack of intent throughout their innings. He mentioned that the Super Giants required somebody to point out intent with the bat whereas highlighting that they didn’t rating sufficient runs within the powerplay. “I have to call them out. This is not 5 runs per over wicket. Somebody needed to show intent. They had one of the slowest powerplays. That took the innings nowhere. When the opposition team has Travis Head, Heinrich Klaasen your intention should be to go at 10s and over. 160-170 will never be enough,” Hayden mentioned.
After the match, LSG skipper KL Rahul was at loss of phrases and he additionally appreciated the SRH batters, Head and Abhishek, saying, “Kudos to their expertise. They have labored arduous on their six hitting expertise. They did not give us an opportunity to know what the pitch performed within the second innings.
“It was hard to stop them as they teed off from ball one. Once you are on the losing side, there are question marks on the decisions taken. We were 40-50 runs short. When we lost wickets in the powerplay, we couldn’t get any momentum. Ayush and Nicky batted well to get us to 166. But even if we would have got 240, they could have chased it as well.”
