47 minutes.. 58 balls.. 167 runs.. 0 wickets! Sunrisers’ batting was devastating in the match against Lucknow Supergiants at the Uppal Stadium on Wednesday. Before the fans could get snacks during the innings break, before the audience in front of the TV sets could take a break, Sunrisers’ target was completed. As if some plane is missing.. If this ball is lost, another ball will not be found again.. Sunrisers openers Abhishek Sharma (75 not out; 28 balls 8×4, 6×6) and Travis Head (89 not out; 30 balls 8×4, 8×6) burst like a flood.. Uppal Stadium was flooded with runs. The destruction done by Travis Head and Abhishek Sharma is extraordinary, as if one is more than the other..
Sunrisers Hyderabad once again raised dust. All-round game is popular. Another match was made one-sided by making the opponent a Gully team. Sunrisers defeated Lucknow Supergiants by 10 wickets in the match held at Uppal Stadium on Wednesday. Sunrisers, who effectively tied the opponent with quality bowling, then roared with destructive batting. First, Lucknow scored 165 for 4. Nicholas Pooran (48 not out; 6×4 in 26 balls, 1×6) and Ayush Badoni (55 not out; 9×4 in 30 balls) gave oxygen to Lucknow, who were shaken by the Sunrisers’ bowling attack. After that Sunrisers completed the work in less than 50 minutes. In 9.4 overs, they reached the target without losing a wicket. Head of ‘Man of the Match’, Abhishek… washed and dried the Lucknow bowlers.
What is the goal? Everything else is completely different. One is batting at a snail’s pace. Another is rocket speed. One team scores 27/2 in the power play. The other team scores 107/0. These two comparisons are enough to tell about Lucknow and Sunrisers. Only the first over bowled by Gautham in Sunrisers’ innings was played calmly by the openers. Head who got 8 runs in that over.. Abhishek massacred in the next 9 overs with 17, 22, 17, 23, 20, 19, 17, 14, 10 runs respectively. In the second over bowled by Yash Thakur, Abhishek started the destruction with 4 boundaries. Ravi Bishnoi was sent off by the head and Abhishek from both sides. Navinul Haq’s bowling hit a six and four boundaries and scored a half-century in just 16 balls. Abhishek immediately received it. Yash Thakur scored 20 runs with two sixes and four boundaries. Later, Badoni scored a half-century in just 19 balls with a six. Itu head.. and Abhishek Lucknow saw the bowlers playing badly and the target melted away. Abhishek completed the feat with a six at extra cover off the bowling of Yash Thakur. Sunrisers openers hit 14 sixes and 16 fours in this match. 148 runs of Sunrisers’ score came through boundaries.
Poor start: Lucknow won the toss and elected to bat first, but Sunrisers’ bowlers gave them a hard time. At the start, they used a slow pitch and hooked the batters with line length. Pacer Bhuvneshwar’s bowling proved too much for the Lucknow batsmen. Bhuvi bowled 3 overs in a row and gave away 7 runs and took two wickets. Unable to withstand the pressure, de Kock (2) got out.. Steinis (3) also turned back on Bhuvneshwar’s bowling. Losing two wickets for 21 runs, Lucknow went into more self-defense. Captain KL Rahul batted very slowly. Not even at a run rate per ball. His partner Krunal (24; 2×6 off 21 balls) also played slowly. Score in powerplay.. 27/2. In the ninth over bowled by Unadkat, Krunal hit two sixes in a row and seemed to get some excitement. 15 runs were scored in this over. Cummins starts the next over with a boundary from Rahul. It is noteworthy that this is the first four (10th over) in Lucknow’s innings. But Rahul got out on the last ball of the same over. Immediately Krunal ran out and turned back. By then the score was 66/4 in 11.2 overs.
Those two who helped: After the 13th over, Lucknow saw some momentum in the innings. Pooran and Badoni tried to play aggressively. Even if the ball did not hit the bat, they batted according to the conditions and scored runs. Natarajan scored 17 runs including three boundaries off Badoni in the 14th over. Later Pooran hit a six in Vijayakanth’s over. Badoni hit a four. Lucknow crossed the 100-run milestone in the 15th over. From there, Pooran and Badoni increased the score with intermittent boundaries. In this sequence, Badoni completed his half-century in 28 balls. Pooran scored 19 runs with 4 boundaries in 20 overs bowled by Cummins. This is the best over in Lucknow’s innings. Lucknow scored 63 runs in the last five overs.
