Lucknow Super Giants ended their cold and hot IPL 2024 season with a deserving win over Mumbai Indians at Wankhede Stadium on Friday. It was not enough for KL Rahul‘s aspect to verify a playoff spot as they completed the season within the sixth place.
After main the crew to playoffs in 2022 and 2024, KL Rahul began the season with three wins of their first 4 matches and likewise spent nearly all of the primary half of the season within the high 4. However, Lucknow struggled for consistency after their enjoying mixture took varied damage blows.
KL Rahul top-scored with 520 runs in 14 innings however his strike price of 136.12 was exhausting to ignore. When requested the motive behind LSG not making to playoffs this season, Rahul cited damage causes and likewise added an absence of collective effort.Â
“At the beginning of the season, I really felt that we had a strong team and had most bases covered,” Rahul stated through the post-match presentation. “[We had] a couple of injuries obviously, which happens every season to every team, but those injuries and the guys that went away really dented us a little bit, and we didn’t play well enough collectively. When the bowlers had a good game, the batters wouldn’t have a good game. We just didn’t come together as much as we would have wanted to.”
Meanwhile, crew head coach Justin Langer additionally identified damage causes and likewise highlighted their poor fielding efforts all through the season.Â
“I saw a stat today that we’ve dropped a lot of catches,” Langer stated. “We’ve probably got the best fielding coach in the world, Jonty Rhodes, and we dropped some catches. And often it’s something as simple as that to decide the outcome of the season. We missed Mayank, he was huge. Mohsin Khan had quite a sore back for some of the tournament. But I think dropped catches is the thing that really killed us in the end.”
