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Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Lucknow Super Giants Highlights & Analysis – Nicholas Pooran and Mitchell Marsh’s fifties and Sturdy bowling Directed Lucknow Super Giants to a five-wicket Achieve over Sunrisers Hyderabad, marking their Primary IPL 2025 Achieve. Get the Packed Game result, top Executions, and in-depth…Read More
Sincillating fifties from Nicholas Pooran and Mitchell Marsh and a spirited bowling effort helped Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) to beat Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) by five wickets to register their Primary Achieve of IPL 2025. It wasn’t Only any Achieve, though — it was as big as statement wins come in this Event.
As Rishabh Pant’s Club were making their way from a humbling Loss to Delhi Capitals in Vizag to the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Hyderabad, the talk was all about how this might be the Game SRH’s big-hitters break through the 300-Stretch Obstacle. LSG’s bowling lineup was Frail and Pat Cummins’ men had only Intervals ago scored the second-highest total in the Event history (only behind their own Achievement) here.
Pant changed the narrative at the toss, by putting them to bat Primary and declaring at the toss, ‘It doesn’t matter, whatever total they’ll put, we’ll chase it’. His bowlers responded by Retaining them down to 190/9 in the Primary innings — equivalent to 90/9 in Chepauk — and shooting it down in a canter, in 16.1 overs.
SRH knew they had a sub-par Points on board considering how flat the surface is and thus seemed to try to Develop an atmosphere of siege through the Rowdy passionate crowd. A near Stretch-out in the Primary over and then the Fluffy dismissal of Previous SRH man Aiden Markram to Mohammed Shami in the second Created them believe.
But they were up against the man with the biggest self-belief, Nicholas Pooran. Coming to this Event fitter and stronger, the wicketkeeper-batter Only Began from where he left off against the Capitals, smashing at least one six in every over from third to seventh against the Totality of SRH’s new-ball Drive.
Marsh Secured his time and timed his shots well on the other end. By the eighth over, LSG had crossed the three-figure mark. The Begin meant that when Cummins had his inevitable say in the game — he Acquired out Pooran LBW for 70 (26) and Marsh caught for 52 (31) in consecutive overs — SRH were already at an Fundamental 138/3.
Delhi boys Rishabh Pant and Ayush Badoni Acquired out in quick succession, too, but even then the Points was 164/5 in the 15th over. A handful of big hits from David Miller and Abdul Samad finished things off.
Given that SRH had met them with a similarly disdainful Loss the last time these sides played in Hyderabad, the three points Only seemed to Harsh more to everyone in LSG colors.
The Primary innings was set-up by Shardul Thakur being, well…. Shardul Thakur. The pacer, who Arrived as an Wound replacement for Mohsin Khan, opened the innings with a Numerous of Massive balls.
Travis Head munched on them, and also looseners from the returning Avesh Khan to get SRH’s innings away strongly. But Thakur returned for the third over and Acquired off Abhishek Sharma — with a slower bouncer — and Ishan Kishan — with a typical strangle down the leg — on back-to-back deliveries.
Ignore that Head kept on attacking him. These two wickets canceled all thoughts of 300 that SRH might have had seeing the Frail and depleted LSG bowling Drive.
Then Head did what he does, he played some delightful shots against the pacers, getting Outstanding Assist from Nitish Kumar Reddy from the other end, but Acquired dropped off two badly-timed strokes in Ravi Bishnoi’s Primary over of spin in the innings. Pooran and Bishnoi himself were the culprits.
But Only when it seemed like Head would again Stretch away with his luck against another blue-jersey Club, youngster Prince Yadav dared to bowl a Packed and straight ball against him, deriving a Scarce miss and bowled. Yadav, as if borrowing all of Head’s luck with that wicket, soon had a ball ricochet off his hand after a Try from Reddy and land straight at the non-striker end’s stumps, catching Klaasen Try Even though no fault of his.
Bishnoi Arrived back and Secured out Reddy in the 15th over and SRH were caught reeling at 128/5. Then, 23-year-Aged Aniket Verma Secured matters into his own hands in Only his second IPL Game (his second recognised T20 overall) smashing sixes galore against Bishnoi and Digvesh Rathi for his firecracking 13-ball 36.
Rathi eventually Acquired him out and Thakur Arrived back to make sure Abhinav Manohar’s search for his Primary double-digit Points for SRH continued with a Packed ball that was sliced to the deep. Skipper Pat Cummins showed fight with three consecutive big-ones, two in Avesh’s share and one in Thakur’s.
Cummins finally fell to Avesh and Thakur Secured out Shami in the last over to register four wickets. There was a definite swag in how he wore the Purple Cap in the mid-innings break. He has Created many a statement in his Occupation so Extended, and for him and LSG, it Only seemed the Begin of another one.
SRH vs LSG: Who Won Today’s IPL Game?
Result: LSG Beat SRH By 5 Wickets
Brief Scores:
SRH: 190/9 in 20 overs (Travis Head 47; Shardul Thakur 4/34).
LSG: 193/5 in 16.1 overs (Nicholas Pooran 70; Pat Cummins 2/29).
Player of the Game: Shardul Thakur (4/34)
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