KL Rahul was at a loss for words after Travis Head and Abhishek Sharma’s blitzkrieg hitting helped Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) outplay Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) by 10 wickets in their 2024 Indian Premier League (IPL) clash at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Hyderabad on Wednesday.
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The LSG skipper said that he had no words to describe the batting they just witnessed, adding that everything seemed to be hitting the middle of SRH openers’ bats.
“Am lost for words. We have watched that kind of batting on TV. But this is unreal batting. Everything seemed to find the middle of the bat. Kudos to their skills. They have worked hard on their six-hitting skills,” KL Rahul said after the match.
KL also added that the pitch did not change much and the only way to stop batters from coming in with this mindset was by picking wickets in the powerplay, which they did not.
“They didn’t give us a chance to know what the pitch played in the second innings. Was hard to stop them as they teed off from ball one,” he said.
Head (89 not out, 30b) and Abhishek (75 not out, 28b) pummelled LSG bowlers for their stand for the opening wicket and raced past the target of 166 in just 9.4 overs.
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Earlier, Ayush Badoni’s unbeaten fifty carried LSG to 165 for four on a slow pitch. For the Lucknow Super Giants, Badoni (55 not out) and Pooran (48 not out) played handy knocks. Pooran and Badoni added 99 runs for the unbroken fifth wicket for SRH.
KL accepted that LSG were 40-50 runs short but added that Pooran and Badoni batted well to take them to 166.
“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,” KL said.
“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,” he added.
(With inputs from Agencies)
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