Sunrisers Hyderabad Clinch Record Victory Against Lucknow Super Giants
In the 57th match of the 17th season of IPL, Sunrisers Hyderabad defeated Lucknow Supergiants by 10 wickets. Lucknow Super Giants gave a challenge of 166 runs to Sunrisers Hyderabad for victory. Hyderabad completed this challenge easily in 9.4 overs.
The opening pair of Travis Head and Abhishek Sharma batted brilliantly and gave Hyderabad victory within 10 overs. With this victory, Sunrisers Hyderabad has got a big advantage in the points table. Also, Hyderabad has maintained the challenge in the playoffs.
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Travis Head and Abhishek Sharma Lead Sunrisers Hyderabad to Victory with Explosive Batting Display
Travis Head and Abhishek Sharma batted explosively as soon as they entered the field and secured the victory. Both of them added 100 runs in the power play itself. After this, both of them maintained their hold. Both made an unbeaten opening winning partnership of 167 runs in 9.4 overs. Abhishek Sharma played an unbeaten inning of 75 runs with the help of 6 sixes and 8 fours at a strike rate of 267.86. Whereas Travis Head scored 89 runs in 30 balls with the help of 8 sixes and 8 fours at a strike rate of 296.67. Both of them thoroughly defeated the Lucknow bowlers.
Other hand, Lucknow won the toss and decided to bat. Lucknow had a shaky start and reached 66 runs for 4 wickets. But then Nicholas Pooran and Ayush Badoni made a partnership of 99 runs for the fifth wicket. In this way, Lucknow could reach only 165 runs after losing 4 wickets in 20 overs. For Lucknow, Ayush Badoni scored an unbeaten 55 and Nicholas Puran scored 48* runs. for Sunrisers Hyderabad Bhuvneshwar Kumar took 2 wickets with an impressive economy.
Lucknow Super Giants Playing XI: KL Rahul (Captain & Wicketkeeper), Quinton de Kock, Marcus Stoinis, Nicholas Pooran, Ayush Badoni, Deepak Hooda, Krunal Pandya, Krishnappa Gowtham, Yash Thakur, Ravi Bishnoi and Navin-ul-Haq.
Sunrisers Hyderabad Playing XI: Pat Cummins (Captain), Travis Head, Nitish Reddy, Heinrich Klaasen (wicketkeeper), Abdul Samad, Shahbaz Ahmed, Sanveer Singh, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Jaydev Unadkat, Vijayakanth Vyaskanth and T Natarajan.
