SRH vs LSG: Nicholas Pooran, Prerak Mankad and Marcus Stoinis guided Lucknow Super Giants to a thumping win over Sunrisers Hyderabad in the 58th match of IPL 2023. Chasing a target of 183 in their 12th match of the season, LSG returned to the winning ways as they clinched the contest with 7 wickets in hand and 4 balls to spare.
The second innings were mostly controlled by the Sunrisers as they took crucial wickets and kept the Super Giants batters under check. The required rate swelled above 13 by the end of 13 overs but the 15th over from Abhishek Sharma proved to be the deciding over where Stoinis and Pooran smoked 31 runs. That pushed SRH on the back foot and even though Bhuvneshwar Kumar and T Natarajan tried bringing their team back, the game was closed with relative ease.
Lucknow Super Giants were winless for over 2 weeks. Before this game, LSG's last win was against Punjab Kings on April 28. Lucknow played three games since that outing and returned with only 1 point, thanks to a washout against Chennai Super Kings. LSG have now stormed back into the top four of the Points table tally with 13 points in 12 games. Meanwhile, SRH are almost out of the tournament and lots of permutations and combinations can only save them.
Batting first, Sunrisers made 182/6 in their 20 overs. The score was powered by Abdul Samad along with contributions from a few other batters. Anmolpreet Singh helped SRH in the initial phase as he made 36 off 27 balls. Rahul Tripathi and Aiden Markram played cameos of 20 and 28 runs respectively. Meanwhile, Klaasen was fabulous in the middle and he made 47 off just 29 balls.
LSG's Playing XI:
Quinton de Kock(w), Kyle Mayers, Krunal Pandya(c), Prerak Mankad, Marcus Stoinis, Nicholas Pooran, Amit Mishra, Yash Thakur, Ravi Bishnoi, Yudhvir Singh Charak, Avesh Khan
SRH's Playing XI:
Abhishek Sharma, Anmolpreet Singh, Rahul Tripathi, Aiden Markram(c), Heinrich Klaasen(w), Glenn Phillips, Abdul Samad, T Natarajan, Mayank Markande, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Fazalhaq Farooqi
