Sunrisers Hyderabad’s unbelievable batting makes them win the match against LSG.
And by winning the match, they eliminated the Mumbai Indians from the race for the playoffs.
The openers of SRH Abhishek Sharma and Travis Head, destroyed the bowlers of LSG.
They both completed their half-centuries with 16 and 19 balls, respectively.
With their knocks, SRH won the match and got to third place in the points table.
Match Details
The 57th match of the IPL was between the Lucknow Super Giants and Sunrisers Hyderabad.
LSG won the toss and elected to bat first.
Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) Innings
KL Rahul and Quinton de Kock opened the innings for LSG.
They both tried to give their team a good start but couldn’t do so.
Bhuvenshwar Kumar showed his bowling talent as he took the wicket of Quinton.
And in his next over, he took the wicket of Marcus Stoinis, giving LSG two big breakthroughs.
Krunal Pandya came in to bat as he and KL started to form a short partnership.
The captain of SRH, Pat Cummins, didn’t let them settle for long as he took the wicket of KL.
Krunal got run out in the next over as the Lucknow team was in great trouble.
Nicholas Pooran and Ayush Badoni handled the situation from there.
The short knocks by both of them took LSG to a total of 165/4.
Bhuvenshwar Kumar bowled outstandingly, taking two wickets and giving only 12 runs in his four overs.
Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) Innings
Abhishek Sharma was called in as the impact player against T. Natarajan.
Abhishek and Travis Head opened the innings for SRH.
They both started great and were showing why they are called the best openers in this season of the IPL.
They were hitting all the bowlers across the field and scoring runs.
Soon both of them also completed their half-centuries and looked like a nightmare for the bowlers.
In the powerplay, they completed 100 runs for SRH.
In the 10th over, they both single-handedly achieved the total and made SRH win the match.
WHAT. A. CHASE 🧡
A 🔟-wicket win for @SunRisers with more than 🔟 overs to spare!
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