IPL 2024: Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) are taking on Rajasthan Royals (RR) in the 44th match of the Indian Premier League (IPL) held at the Ekana Cricket Stadium on Saturday.
In the current points table, Lucknow is at the fourth position with five wins from eight matches, while Rajasthan is on top with seven wins from eight matches.
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IPL 2024: LSG vs RR
1st innings, LSG captain KL Rahul batted brilliantly and scored 76 runs in 48 balls. He gave a strong base to his team. Deepak Hooda also played a good inning of 50 runs in 31 balls.
Together, they made an important partnership of 115 runs for the third wicket, due to which LSG set a target of 196 runs.
Sandeep Sharma performed well for Rajasthan Royals and took 2 wickets for 31 runs. However, his efforts ultimately did not prove victorious and his team was unable to hold on to LSG’s continued advances.
2nd Inning: At the beginning of the match, Lucknow Super Giants did well to chase down the target of 197 runs set by LSG. However, Rajasthan Royals batsmen tried their best to achieve this target.
Rajasthan Royals captain RR Sanju Samson made important contributions through his batting. He played a brilliant inning of 71 runs in 33 balls, which was an important step towards victory for his team.
Apart from this, Dhruv Jurel of Rajasthan Royals also made important contributions from the batsmen’s side. He scored 34 runs in just 18 balls and led his team towards victory.
This victory of Rajasthan Royals reflects the strength of their captaincy and batsmen. This win has boosted the confidence of the team and they are hoping to perform even more effectively in their upcoming matches.
LSG vs RR: Statement
KL Rahul | LSG captain: I think we left about 20 runs behind. We didn’t get an ideal start but with the partnership me and Hooda had was great. In these sorts of games, the set batter had to score close to a hundred after getting to 50-60. I think we were 150 after about 15 overs, should have capitalized on it a bit more. I think it is clear the team with more sixes ends up winning. We do try to hit our sixes but today we had to change our approach after those two early wicket.
If Hooda pushed on and scored 20 more, and I got 20 more then we’d finish around 220. That would have been the difference, that’s the 20 runs we left behind. We’re seeing with every game how important it is to give the bowlers that extra cushion because they are under the pump. Everyone loves range hitting and hitting it all over the park, we are no different. It is part of the prep.
Our big hitters are Stoin and Pooran who can hit those big shots. The other guys like us try to pick our areas and time the shots better. (On Mishra and Bishnoi) There is a bit of chat before the game with the numbers and how opposition players match-up. Mishra is an experienced player and today was a day we knew he could be useful with how slow he bowls and with the larger boundaries. Once the runs kept flowing, they put pressure on our bowlers.
There were 2-3 overs when Krunal bowled really well and squeezed them but then they attacked the fast bowlers. I couldn’t get a good time to get Bishnoi, wanted to keep him for the backend when Rovman and Hetmyer came out to bat because we know he can bowl well to them.
Dhruv Jurel – I just wanted to finish the match whenever I got a chance ( during batting). It’s always a blessing / curse (playing in the middle-order), I just wanted to stay until the end and finish the game for my team. I will have to practice, in the batting PP, you have just two fielders outrside the ring, during the middle-overs, you’ll need to find the gaps and get the big hits going as there are 5 fielders in thew deep, that’s what I was looking at.
I started well, but my shots went straight to the fielders. Sanju then told me to calm down, don’t go too hard, take my time and then I got 20 runs in an over and that got me going. I always play for my papa, I did so during the Test match as well. he was then in the army, he was there today and that was for him (on the salute celebrations)
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