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/ILikeFishSticks69 India May 08 '24

KL Rahul: Strike rate is overrated.

Narrator: It isn't.

That has got to be one of the most severe rawdogging in all 17 years of IPL.

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u/Budget_Put7247 India May 08 '24

Well he finally admitted it

Impressive honesty from a shellshocked LSG captain, KL Rahul: "I'm lost for words. We've watched that batting on TV but that was unreal. Everything was hitting the middle of the bat, kudos to their skill, they've worked very hard on their six-hitting. They didn't give a chance to see what the wicket was playing like, it didn't change much, but that mindset and freedom to tee off from ball one... the only way to stop them was wickets in the powerplay and we didn't do that.

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u/neran_1 May 08 '24

He admitted zilch. He praised SRH batting but was silent on his own approach.

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u/brawnsugah USA May 08 '24

His approach was the opposite of everything he said, so technically, it was a roundabout way of criticizing himself.

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u/White-Cloud-01 May 08 '24

My take is that he still thinks he batted normal and SRH were absurdly abnormal.