IPL 2024: Travis Head, Abhishek Sharma star in Sunrisers Hyderabad’s 10-wicket win over Lucknow Supergiants. cricket news

The unstoppable dominance of Travis Head and Abhishek Sharma, who hit lightning-quick half-centuries, helped Sunrisers Hyderabad chase the fastest target of 160-plus with a 10-wicket win over Lucknow Super Giants in an IPL match on Wednesday. Chasing a modest target of 166, Head (89 not out, 30 balls, 8×4, 8×6) and Sharma (75 not out, 28 balls, 8×4, 6×6) toyed with the LSG bowlers and chased down the target by hitting fours and sixes at will. Have achieved. 9.4 overs. The win lifted SRH to third in the standings with 14 points from 12 matches, while LSG are struggling at sixth with 12 points from the same number of matches.

The result also means that five-time champions Mumbai Indians, who are currently placed ninth with eight points from 12 matches, are out of the race for the play-offs.

Head and Sharma’s dance of destruction left even the great Sachin Tendulkar giddy.

Tendulkar wrote on his

The Head and Sharma show came when SRH bowlers got off to a great start before losing the plot a bit.

Ayush Badoni (55 not out off 30 balls) and Nicholas Pooran (48 not out off 25 balls) stitched a crucial 95 not out off 55 balls for the fifth wicket, taking LSG to a competitive score of 165 for four on a sluggish pitch.

But after scoring 107 runs in the power play, Head and Sharma showed no signs of competition from the match.

It was an amazing hitting performance from the Indo-Australian pair as they did not spare a single LSG bowler and thrashed them to all parts of the ground.

LSG’s decision to start with Krishnappa Gowtham also backfired badly as both Head and Sharma, who are really good against spin, demolished the off-spinner.

So brutal was the attack that even Yash Dayal, Ravi Bishnoi and Naveen-ul-Haq were taken to the cleaners after raining sixes and fours.

Earlier, LSG were struggling after electing to bat and were 27 for 2 at the end of the powerplay.

The visitors lost Quinton de Kock early on, replacing the injured Mohsin Khan, who was brilliantly caught by Nitish Kumar Reddy at deep backward square leg off Bhuvneshwar Kumar (2/12) in the third over.

In the fifth over, Bhuvneshwar again hit a four by dismissing the dangerous Marcus Stoinis, but the credit for the dismissal should go to young Sanvir Singh, who took a brilliant catch by diving a few inches above the ground at mid-on.

The pitch also did not help LSG as the ball was coming a bit slow on the bat as their batsmen were struggling to find the timing.

Captain KL Rahul (29) held one end, while Krunal Pandya (24) took the innings forward.

Krunal hit Jaydev Unadkat for a six over long-on and then hit a six straight over the bowler’s head, scoring 15 runs in the eighth over.

Rahul hit the first boundary of the LSG innings in the 10th over by hitting SRH captain Pat Cummins at mid-off.

But Rahul never looked at his usual best as he struggled to get his timing right and was eventually caught by T Natarajan at deep backward square leg on the final ball of the same over in search of a quick run.

SRH were in brilliant form on the field as a straight throw from Cummins through mid-on got Krunal bowled soon after the batsman went for a quick single.

Badoni soon put pressure on the accelerator by hitting three fours in the 14th over of left-arm fast bowler Natarajan, in which 17 runs were scored.

In the 15th over bowled by leg spinner Vijaykant Vyaskant, Puran and Badoni scored 12 runs by hitting a six and a four and the Lucknow team finally progressed.

He showed intent from the start and did not hesitate to play strokes whenever he got the chance.

Badoni batted brilliantly and hit two consecutive fours by sweeping and cutting Natarajan in the 17th over.

Badoni showed some cheeky shots and the right-handed batsman completed his half-century in 28 balls.

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