KL Rahul in action for Lucknow Super Giants in IPL 2024© AFP
Lucknow Super Giants took to social media to post an emotional message for their fans after a heavy defeat against SunRisers Hyderabad on Wednesday. LSG failed to accelerate as they ended up scoring just 165 runs despite losing just 4 wickets and in response SRH completed the run chase in just 9.4 overs. It was a brilliant batting performance from Travis Head and Abhishek Sharma as they completely dominated the LSG bowlers. “We are all hurt by that match. But we are so grateful for every blue flag at Uppal and every post or comment on social media in support of our support despite this defeat. This team has shown resilience over the last two years, and we “I'll show it again. Thank you for sticking with us, LSG Brigade,” it said.
We were all hurt by that game.
But we are so grateful for every blue flag at Uppal and every post or comment on social media in support of this defeat.
This team has shown resilience over the past two years, and we will show that again.
Thanks for sticking with us, LSG…
— Lucknow Supergiants (@LucknowIPL) May 8, 2024
LSG's play-off dreams for the IPL 2024 suffered a huge blow after the heavy defeat against SRH. On the other hand, SRH are third with 14 points and the big win improved their Net Run Rate (NRR) quite a bit.
LSG captain KL Rahul was “at a loss for words” after the defeat.
“I'm at a loss for words. We've seen that kind of batting on TV. But this is unreal batting. Everything seemed to find the middle of the bat. Kudos to their skills. They've worked hard on their six batting skills. they didn't.” It doesn't give us a chance to know what the pitch played in the second innings.”
“It was difficult to stop them when they teed off from ball one. Once you are on the losing side, there are question marks over the decisions made. We were 40-50 runs short. When we lost wickets in the powerplay, We couldn't do that.” Ayush and Nicky batted well to take us to 166. But even if we had got 240, they could have gone after it,” Rahul said after the match.
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