Most important game for us, my score does not matter for me, whichever team I play I want to contribute. I was trying to hit the spinners and couldn't connect, I knew Mayank would try to get me out and I have played against him in domestic cricket, so took my chance. Thanks to the management for giving me this opportunity. I haven't batted a lot at number 3 but have batted in the top four. I back my ability and strength, it worked out in the end. Whatever happens at the other end should not effect me, and because of Stoinis and Pooran we won this game.
Prerak Mankad is the Player of the Match
I thought it was a decent score, I thought 180 was par. We batted well, probably lacked one partnership that could have got us to the 200-run mark. The wicket got slower throughout the day, we would have taken this total at the start. Pressure is an interesting thing, and the guys tried their best. When you are put under pressure by high-quality players like Stoinis and Pooran, you are going to be tested. Once the righties came in, I don't think I was the man for the job. It's about the guys using the next three games as opportunities, they must make it count.
With the way they were going I thought 200, but we pulled it back nicely towards the end especiallyn by Yash and Avesh. At this level anything is possible, we had the belief and with players like Stoinis and Pooran, we had to believe. We knew we had to go and there was nothing special, luckily it paid off for us and Abhishek's over changed the momentum. He's (Prerak Mankad) coming for his first season and to come out and bat like that shows a lot of character, really happy for him to coming out here and scoring those runs. Even he will believe he belongs here.
LSG notch 7-wicket win against SRH
We spoke about adapting, we knew we could target that one over from spin, it was right up to my match-up and thankfully it came off well (on the 31-run over from Abhishek), I did enjoy my batting. It's important to target that 6th bowler, it's a batter's game, no risk, no reward, you have to work on the match-ups. I've played enough international cricket to know how to deal with situations, I expected the bowlers to bowl yorkers and slower balls and was ready for it. Even in T20I cricket, I'd like to bat longer
Lucknow Super Giants (185/3) beat Sunrisers Hyderabad (182/6) by 7 wickets
Lucknow Super Giants need 4 runs in 6 balls
Lucknow Super Giants need 5 runs in 7 balls
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Lucknow Super Giants need 14 runs in 12 balls
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Lucknow Super Giants need 24 runs in 18 balls
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31 runs off Abhishek Sharma's over. Nicholas Pooran batting on 18 off just 3 balls. Lucknow Super Giants need 38 runs in 24 balls
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Nicholas Pooran comes to the crease
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Lucknow Super Giants need 69 runs in 30 balls. Can they do it?
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Lucknow Super Giants need 80 runs in 36 balls
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Unruly behaviour by Hyderabad crowd after umpiring howler halts proceedings
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Marcus Stoinis comes to the crease
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Prerak Mankad comes to the crease
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The wicket changed quickly in the middle. There was some spin and decent amount of bounce, there were a few rippers (by Krunal - Markram and Phillips' wicket.) That broke the moment, it was difficult to play the harder length balls. Need to bowl length and slower ones into the wicket, can't be too full. It's not a bad wicket, but it's a bit slow. Can use the natural variations. I reckon if the spinners can bowl quickly into the wicket, the natural variations can take over. Disappointed off the crowd to be honest, that's not what you want. That also broke the momentum, not great umpiring either.
Sunrisers Hyderabad 182/6 in 20 overs vs Lucknow Super Giants
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Bhuvneshwar Kumar comes to the crease
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Abdul Samad comes to the crease
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