Sunrisers Hyderabad beat Lucknow Super Giants by 10 runs in a life and death fight to keep their playoff chances alive. The match was held at the Rajiv Gandhi Stadium in Hyderabad.
Travis Head’s 16-ball fifty and Abhishek Sharma’s 19-ball fifty capped Sunrisers’ chase of a paltry 166 and handed Lucknow one of the heaviest defeats in IPL history.
167 runs in 9.4 overs is also the highest score in the first 10 overs in an IPL match. Sunrisers’ win in 62 balls is also an IPL record for most balls to be dismissed while running a total of over 100.
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Travis Head was unbeaten with 89 runs off 30 balls and Abhishek Sharma scored 75 runs off 28 balls to beat Sunrisers Supergiants by 10 wickets.
KL Rahul scored 29 runs from 33 balls, Head and Abhishek hit 13 sixes and 16 boundaries.
Even the Sunrisers players in the dugout watched in awe at the amazing attack as the two openers gave their big hitting potential.
Sunrisers scored 107 for 0 in their Powerplay while Lucknow managed to score 27 for 2 in their Powerplay.
Scores over 100 have been posted just 4 times in Powerplay, 2 of them by Sunrisers account.
Earlier, Sunrisers had broken the IPL record for most runs in Powerplay.
125 against Delhi at the Arun Jaitley Stadium last month. LSG’s most efficient player is Krishnappa Gautam who conceded 29 runs in 2 matches. Ayush Badoni, Yash Thakur, Naveen-ul-Haq and Ravi Bishnoi all conceded over 17 runs in the end as LSG’s bowlers had a day to forget in Hyderabad.
Bhuvneshwar Kumar stands out
Earlier, LSG won the toss and elected to bat but did not do justice to their call. Bhuvneshwar Kumar was at his best with the new ball as he picked up big wickets of Quinton de Kock and the inform Marcus Stoinis.
Mumbai became the first team to be officially eliminated from playoff contention as Sunrisers moved to third place.
2024-05-08 17:59:47
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