For the Lucknow Super Giants team, the match played against Sunrisers Hyderabad in the 17th season of the Indian Premier League (IPL) on May 8 proved to be no less than a nightmare. In this match, while Lucknow team, batting first, managed to reach the score of 165 runs in 20 overs, Sunrisers Hyderabad achieved this target in just 9.4 overs without any loss. After the crushing defeat in this match, Lucknow team captain KL Rahul looked quite disappointed in which he admitted that it was difficult for his team to stop Travis Head and Abhishek Sharma.
I have no words for this loss
After the defeat against Sunrisers Hyderabad team, KL Rahul said that I don’t have words yet as to how to describe it. We had seen such batting on TV. But this was absolutely incredible batting. Every ball on his bat seemed to hit exactly the middle. We praise the batting of Head and Abhishek. He has worked a lot on the art of hitting sixes. With his batting, he did not give us any chance to understand the pitch during the second innings and how to bowl. He came out aggressively from the very first ball, so we did not get any chance to stop him. Once you lose a match, many of your decisions are questioned. We scored approximately 40 to 50 runs less in this match. After losing wickets in the powerplay, we could not regain our rhythm in the match. Ayush and Nicholas Pooran batted well and took us to 166 but even if we had made 240, they would have chased.
Lucknow will have to win the last 2 matches to keep alive its hopes of reaching the playoffs.
Due to the big defeat by 10 wickets in this match, Lucknow Super Giants team’s net run rate has also deteriorated significantly which is now -0.769, in such a situation, the team needs to win the last 2 matches to keep alive its hopes of reaching the playoffs. It has become quite necessary. Lucknow team is currently at sixth position in the points table with 12 points from 12 matches with 6 wins and 6 losses. Now they have to play against Delhi Capitals on 14th May and against Mumbai Indians on 17th May.
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