Finance
Sunrisers Hyderabad crushed Lucknow Super Giants by ten wickets and chased down the target of 166 runs in only 9.4 overs at Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium on Wednesday. Travis Head hit 89 off 30 balls and Abhishek Sharma hit 75 off 38.
Abhishek and Travis totally demolished LSG’s bowling attack.
This IPL season, SRH has scored with an economy rate of 11.37 in power play overs and has once again achieved 100 runs in six overs. LSG opened their bowling with Krishnappa Gowtham and Yash Thakur, as expected, but SRH took off quickly.
Travis smacks Gowtham for 22 runs, followed by Abhishek with four fours off Thakur.
The hitting never stopped even after the fifties, as both batters were on a destructive mode to help SRH chase down the target in less than 10 overs.
Head smashed a half-century and this time in just 16 balls. It was some astonishing hitting from Head, who was just picking his spots and sending them there no matter where the ball is pitched, no matter the pace. One of the incredible was a back-foot off-drive off Ravi Bishnoi for a huge six over long-off.
Then there was a swat down the wicket straight of mid-off off Naveen-ul-Haq. He was 58 off 18 now, and went past 500 for the tournament, and also had hit the most fours in this IPL. SRH were 87 for 0 in five overs. That was four times what LSG were at this point.
In all T20 cricket, only seven times have 100 or more been scored in the powerplay, SRH have the top two scores, both in this year of IPL. It seemed slow by comparison, but Abhishek Sharma reached his fifty in 19 balls with a straight six off Ayush Badoni as SRH reached 120 for 0 in 6.3 overs.
As many as 14 sixes and 16 fours were hit in the chase which meant every second ball reached the boundary.
Previously, Bhuvneshwar Kumar led the way with figures of 4-0-12-2, allowing just in denominations of one, effectively closing down the LSG top order, which scored only 66 in the first 11.2 overs. Ayush Badoni and Nicholas Pooran’s undefeated 99-run stand helped LSG to a decent total.
Brief score:
Lucknow Super Giants 165 for 4 in 20 overs (Ayush Badoni 55 not out, Nicholas Pooran 48 not out; Bhuvneshwar Kumar 2-12, Pat Cummins 1-47) lost to Sunrisers Hyderabad 167 for 0 in 9.4 overs (Travis Head 89 not out, Abhishek Sharma 75) by ten wickets
Source:IANS
