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New Delhi: Travis Hyde and Abhishek Sharma Unreal Attack, Featuring Half a Century of Fire, Promotes Sunriser Hotel Hyderabad Chased over 160 targets at the fastest pace and recorded a convincing 10-wicket victory Lucknow Super Giants inside intense pulsed light Wednesday.
Head (89 not out, 30 balls, 8×4, 8×6) and Sharma (75 not out, 28 balls, 8×4, 6×6) effortlessly Found the fence and cleared to his heart’s content while chasing a relatively modest target of166. In this way they have only mimicked the LSG bowling attack and have been able to finish it off in just 9.4 runs.
The win left SRH on third place with fourteen points from twelve games; however LSG sits at sixth position with twelve points from as many matches in this IPL season.
This result means that current five-time winners Mumbai Indians are placed ninth with eight points from as many matches involving them thus eliminating them from play-offs.
Even Sachin Tendulkar could not help but get caught up in Head and Sharma’s combined onslaught.
“Tonight’s devastating opening partnership would be an understatement. Had these boys batted first, they would have scored 300,” wrote Tendulkar on his X account.
That came after a promising start by the SRH bowlers but then they lost their way somewhat after some good work by Aayush Badoni (55 not out in thirty deliveries), Nicholas Pooran (48 not out in twenty-five deliveries), who stitched together an unbeaten ninety five run partnership for number one side Five wickets leading LSG to score one sixty five for four on low bouncing track.
But when Head and Sharma scored107 runs from the Power Play overs, there was no doubt about which team would lift the trophy this year.
There were no misses from the bats of these two as they struck every ball that came their way against the LSG bowlers.
LSG’s decision to start Krishnappa Gowtham also backfired badly as both Head and Sharma were very good against spin, destroying the off-spinner.
It was a brutal attack which Yash Dayal, Ravi Bishnoi, Naveen-ul-Haq among others had no answer for resulting in 6788 chaos.
Earlier, LSG struggled at 2 for 27 at the end of the powerplay after opting to bat.
The visitors lost Quinton de Kock (who replaced injured Mohsin Khan) and Nitish Kumar Reddy in the third over He was caught brilliantly at deep square leg by Bhuvneshwar Kumar (2/12).
Next, Bhuvneshwar struck again in the fifth over while Sanveer Singh just managed an amazing diving catch inches off the ground at mid-off. But it was only a fraction of an inch from being on earth.
This is because despite trying their best they could not find timing owing to a slow pitch where it is hard to reach out for balls with their batsmen struggling to get going otherwise. when captain Kuala Lumpur Rahul (29) Staying the course, Krunal Pandya (24) took it upon himself to up the ante.
Struggling with his timing, Rahul could not get along and decided to take a quick single before being caught by T Natarajan at deep backward leg on the last ball of the same over.
SRH were in form with Cummins bowling straight to mid-off and Krunal being dismissed as the batsman hit a quick single.
Badoni stepped up soon after, and Natarajan ran away left of 14 boundaries for three fours off 17 runs.
Lucknow got going through Pooran and Badoni batting sixes and fours respectively, gathering twelve from leg-spinner Vijayakanth Viyaskanth’s 15th hole point.
Right from the start they showed their intentions clear and they were not shy to go for shots once an opportunity opened up.
Natarajan was cut twice out of bounds by Badoni in the 17th inning while he swept also.
Badoni displayed some cheeky shots as he scored fifty runs off twenty-eight balls.
