LSG owner Sanjiv Goenka (left) and KKR co-owner Shah Rukh Khan.© X (formerly Twitter)
Travis Head and Abhishek Sharma wreaked havoc as SunRisers Hyderabad made a mockery of the 166-run target set by Lucknow Super Giants at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium on Wednesday. Aided by Head's 89 not out off 30 and Abhishek's unbeaten 75 off 28, SRH reached home in 9.4 overs. Earlier, Ayush Badoni's unbeaten fifty took the KL Rahul-led side to 165 for four in 20 overs. Badoni (55 not out) and Nicholas Pooran (48 not out) pushed LSG in front after opting to bat first on a track that looked slow in the first innings.
After SRH chased down the total with 10 wickets in hand and 62 balls to spare, LSG captain KL Rahul was speechless and all he could do was praise the duo of Head and Abhishek instead of going much hard on his own teammates.
However, a bad scene after the match took the spotlight, with LSG boss Sanjiv Goenka verbally hitting Rahul.
The video irked netizens as they lashed out at the owner for having the heated argument in public. Some also asked Goenka to learn from the leadership qualities of Shah Rukh Khan, the co-owner of the Kolkata Knight Riders team since the inception of IPL in 2008.
Check out some reactions here:
Too bad for Goenka.. He has to learn from SRK and other team owners..
— Vikram Joshi (@vikramajoshi) May 9, 2024
SRK has been through a lot of ups and downs in his life and knows how to deal with losses and hence is mature enough…more than Goenka!
— Aditya Burje (@AdityaBurje) May 9, 2024
Match lost even after score 261. Still ours #SRK Sir, encourage our players.
That's why we call him King through and through.
No one even close to him.
The way he behaves #SRK #KKR #KLRahul #LSG #KKRvsRR
GOENKA pic.twitter.com/lOBglkWmW6— Rahul (@Rahulhazarika09) May 9, 2024
KKR had a worse humiliation season. SRK and Ganguly were once enemies. But still, neither SRK nor any other KKR owner did this publicly with Ganguly. That's why we won 3 trophies and Goenka is struggling to win 1 with 2 different teams now in ipl
— Secretly (@YEeshaan) May 9, 2024
Despite the loss against SRH, LSG is still alive in the race for the play-offs.
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