Puran thrashed Hyderabad with 12 fours and sixes in 25 balls
Last season’s incident. Sunrise Hyderabad’s two openers Abhishek Sharma and Travis Head chased down Lucknow Super Giants’ 165 runs in 9.4 overs.
Nicholas Pooran seemed to want to take revenge for that match today after getting Hyderabad. And he did. He played an innings of 70 runs off 25 balls. His team Lucknow chased down Hyderabad’s 190 runs off 23 balls and 5 wickets in hand. Pooran scored a fifty off just 18 balls against Hyderabad at the Rajiv Gandhi Stadium, which is the fastest in this year’s IPL. Pooran had also scored a fifty in the first match, that day he scored a fifty off 24 balls. Today his innings had 6 fours and 6 sixes. This Caribbean cricketer beat Hyderabad in a similar way to Hyderabad. Mitchell Marsh, who has come out as an impact cricketer, also scored a fifty. The opener scored 52 runs off 31 balls. This is his second consecutive fifty. Rishabh Pant, who was bowled out in the first match, was still unsuccessful. He was dismissed for 15 runs off 15 balls. Otherwise, the game could have been over in 13-14 overs. Hyderabad’s batsmen, who came out to bat after losing the toss, were quiet. That is, they could not be aggressive according to their standards. In the third over of the innings, the team was put under pressure after losing Abhishek Sharma and Ishan Kishan to Shardul Thakur’s delivery.
Even then, the team was 62 for 2 in 6 overs. When Travis Head was out for 47 runs off 28 balls, Heinrich Klaasen came in and batted like him. However, Klaasen was run out for 26 runs off 17 balls. If this Protea batsman returns, Hyderabad can score 190 runs with the cameo of Aniket Barma’s 36 off 13 balls and Pat Cummins’ 18 runs off 4 balls.
This is Lucknow’s first win in this year’s IPL. Lucknow lost to Delhi in their first match. This is Hyderabad’s first loss, after losing to Rajasthan in the first match.
