“There was no answer”: Team consultant’s extremely honest verdict on Lucknow Supergiants. cricket news

Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) consultant Adam Voges was left speechless after a strong performance from Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) destroyed his team and handed the visitors a crushing defeat in a one-sided encounter in the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024 match. . SRH destroyed LSG, first dominating them with the new ball and then chasing 166 runs in 9.4 overs to defeat LSG by 10 wickets, the fastest 10-over score in T20. Brilliant batting from Travis Head and Abhishek Sharma, who completed their half-centuries in 16 and 19 balls respectively, shared the highest powerplay score in T20 cricket history by sharing a century partnership inside the powerplay for the second time in this IPL.

“I think we’re all a little bit surprised by what we’ve just seen. I think sometimes you’ve got to tip your hat and say the opposition played well. I think maybe you missed a hit. Might have hit one or two balls inside,” Voges said in the post-match press conference. “We bowled nine-and-a-half overs at them. He had incredible batting and hitting. We obviously had no answers.”

Courtesy the explosive combination of Head and Sharma, Hyderabad got off to a great start. No bowler was given any breathing room by any batsman. Both Head and Abhishek completed their half-centuries in less than 20 balls and did not give a chance to any bowler. While Head scored 89 runs in just 30 balls, Abhishek Sharma scored 75 runs in just 28 balls and Dupp never stopped hitting boundaries with his first swing.

“I haven’t spoken to people yet about whether there was any difference in terms of the innings or not, but obviously our powerplay was two extremes compared to Sunrisers. We were under huge pressure on the ball right from the start. We were. “Initially I was not able to create that much pressure with the bat,” he said.

The Super Giants were in trouble at 66/4 in 11.2 overs when the pair of Ayush Badoni and Nicholas Pooran stitched an unbeaten 99-run partnership from 52 balls to give LSG some hope of a competitive total. Roaming into the crease and controlling the field, Badoni led the attack and brought up his half-century in 28 balls.

Voges said that the partnership of Badoni and Pooran gave LSG a fighting chance, although the total of 165 was “clearly not enough.”

Voges said, “I thought the back end of our innings was really good. The partnership between Ayush Badoni and Nicholas Pooran got us the win, it was probably still less than the total but it at least gave us a fighting chance. But it was clearly not enough.”

This was LSG’s sixth defeat in IPL 2024, and due to the wide margin of defeat, it also caused serious damage to their net run-rate. They are currently placed sixth after falling below Delhi Capitals in the latest rankings.

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