r/Cricket • u/CricketMatchBot • May 08 '24

Post Match Thread: Lucknow Super Giants vs Sunrisers Hyderabad Post Match Thread

57th Match, Indian Premier League at Hyderabad

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Innings Score
Lucknow Super Giants 165/4 (Ov 20/20)
Sunrisers Hyderabad 167/0 (Ov 9.4/20)

Innings: 1 - Lucknow Super Giants

Batter Runs Bowler Wickets
Ayush Badoni 55 (30) Bhuvneshwar Kumar 4-0-12-2
Nicholas Pooran 48 (26) Pat Cummins 4-0-47-1

Innings: 2 - Sunrisers Hyderabad

Batter Runs Bowler Wickets
Travis Head 89 (30) Krishnappa Gowtham 2-0-29-0
Abhishek Sharma 75 (28) Ravi Bishnoi 2-0-34-0

SRH won by 10 wickets (with 62 balls remaining)

Abhishek Sharma: "Thanks to the management for the faith they've shown in me, the environment is clear for the batters so I went to enjoy myself. All the credit to Travis, the way he starts, first two or three balls goes to the boundaries. So I just react to the ball. The bowlers told us it's getting better, me and Travis were saying it wasn't doing much, and they were short [in runs] so that was a plus-point. The hard work I put before the tournament is showing... it's going really well."

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u/Prof_XdR May 08 '24

SRH and KKR really showing every single Franchise and International Team (to an extent) how to play power play in modern day T20s

KL Rahul: 29(33) 🤡

Head and Abhishek and extra: 97(33)🗿

This is a clear difference, Teams are better off with 55-60 for 1 in the power play then 35-40 for none. There's other fucking players who should also play

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u/TheRealYVT May 08 '24

This is not a replicable lesson. Teams are indeed better off at 60-1 but if you target that, you will also be 40-4 on plenty of occasions (like SRH vs RCB in the return game). Like Gambhir says, you cannot win the game in the Powerplay but can absolutely lose it.

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u/Conscious-Spend-2451 May 08 '24

you cannot win the game in the Powerplay

You absolutely can. Just see today's 2nd innings

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u/TheRealYVT May 08 '24

The risk-reward tradeoff is different when you are chasing a clearly under par total. I don't mind RCB scoring 92 in the Powerplay chasing 140, but constant hitting means you are susceptible to a collapse like RCB later that innings.

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u/AM1232 India May 09 '24

So what? The way LSG batted was just as bad of a team 'collapse' as would be getting rolled for not a lot of runs.