2024-05-09 03:43:33
Hyderabad: Sunrisers Hyderabad defeated Lucknow Supergiants by 10 wickets at home due to the stormy batting of Travis Head and Abhishek Sharma. In this season of IPL, Sunrisers have become the first team which has made the record of winning the match without losing any wicket. In the match, Lucknow captain KL Rahul had decided to bat first after winning the toss. Batting first, Lucknow team was somehow able to reach the score of 165 runs. In response, Sunrisers won the match in 9.4 overs without losing any wicket. With this win, Sunrisers now have 14 points and have reached third place in the points table.
Chasing the target, Travis Head and Abhishek Sharma for Sunrisers started taking notice of Lucknow bowlers from the very first over. During this, Travis Head completed his fifty in just 16 balls. Travis Head remained unbeaten after scoring 89 runs in 30 balls. In this innings, he hit 8 sixes and the same number of fours.
Abhishek also created an uproar
Not only Travis Head, Abhishek Sharma also created a stir with his stormy batting. Abhishek Sharma played a brilliant inning of 75 runs in 28 balls. Abhishek also completed his second half-century of this season. In his unbeaten innings he hit 6 sixes and 8 fours. Due to the explosive batting of Abhishek and Travis Head, Sunrisers team was successful in winning against Lucknow Supergiants in IPL for the first time.
Lucknow was somehow able to score 165 runs
KL Rahul’s decision to bat first after winning the toss at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium backfired. Lucknow team was seen struggling badly in batting. The team was able to score only 64 runs till the 12th over and the Sunrisers bowlers had taken four wickets. However, Ayush Badoni and Nicholas Puran batted steadily in the middle order and somehow managed to take the team’s score to 165 runs. Ayush Badoni remained unbeaten for Lucknow after scoring 55 runs in 30 balls while Puran scored 48 runs.