By – Prakarsh Kastwar
Highlights from the Indian Premier League 2024 match between SRH and LSG : Sunrisers Hyderabad met Lucknow Super Giants in the 57th match of the IPL 2024. The match took place in Hyderabad’s Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium. Lucknow won the toss and batted first, scoring 165 runs in 20 overs while losing four wickets. In reply, Hyderabad took 10 wickets in 9.4 overs.
Sunrisers Hyderabad beat Lucknow Super Giants by ten wickets. Lucknow won the toss and batted first, scoring 165 runs in 20 overs while losing four wickets. The Hyderabad team finished the target of 166 runs in 9.4 overs. Hyderabad won the match with 62 balls remained. Travis Head scored 89 runs in 30 balls with eight fours and eight sixes, while Abhishek Sharma batted unbeaten for 75 runs in 28 balls with eight groups and six sixes. Abhishek finished the match with a six.
The point table’s current state is :
With this victory, the Hyderabad team moves into third place in the points rankings. They have 14 points after 12 matches, including seven victories and five losses. Hyderabad’s net run rate is +0.406. At the same time, Lucknow suffered its sixth defeat in the 12th match. The team is in sixth place, with 12 points and a net run rate of -0.769. Hyderabad’s next matches are against the Gujarat Titans on May 16 and the Punjab Kings on May 19. The Hyderabad team will play both of these matches at home. At the same time, the Lucknow team will meet Delhi on May 14th at Arun Jaitley Stadium and Mumbai on May 17th at Wankhede.
Mumbai is eliminated from the IPL
Hyderabad’s victory means that the Mumbai Indians, under captain Hardik Pandya, are out of competition for the IPL 2024 playoffs. This season, the Mumbai Indians were the first team to be eliminated from the playoff race. He has eight points from twelve matches. The most a team may score is 12 points. Kolkata and Rajasthan are now tied at 16-16 in the points table. At the same time, Hyderabad has 14 points from 12 matches, while Chennai-Delhi and Lucknow have 12-12 points. Chennai has played 11 games, while Delhi and Lucknow have played 12-12 games.
Mumbai’s net run rate is also extremely low. Twelve points will not be enough to make the playoffs. MI will have to wait longer to claim their sixth IPL crown. He won his fifth IPL title in 2020. Since then, they have only made the playoffs once in four years, in 2023. In 2023, they were eliminated by the Gujarat Titans after defeating them in Qualifier-2. Hardik was Gujarat’s captain back then.
Hyderabad team set a record.
In the IPL, while chasing a target of 100+ runs, the Hyderabad squad has achieved the highest win percentage with the least balls left. Winning a 100-plus run chase with 62 balls to spare is the highest win in the IPL. This record was previously held by the Delhi Capitals. In 2022, they beat the Punjab Kings with 57 balls to spare while chasing 116 runs.
At the same time, Hyderabad established its own record for the most runs scored in the opening 10 overs of an IPL encounter. Before this match, the Sunrisers had scored 158 runs against Delhi this season despite losing four wickets in the first ten overs. Biggest IPL win with balls remaining while going after 100+ runs.
Travis Head also made numerous records.
This marked Travis Head’s fifth half-century in the IPL. He has three half-centuries this season, each in less than 20 balls. He equaled Jake Fraser McGurk’s record. He and McGurk have each scored a half-century in less than 20 balls three times in the IPL. Not only that, but Head has finished second in terms of most powerplay 50+ scores in the IPL. He has scored 50 or more points on the power play four times. This season, there have been four 50-plus scores. At the same time, David Warner tops this list. He has scored 50 or more points in the powerplay six times.
In this match, Travis Head and Abhishek scored for 100 runs off 34 balls. This is the IPL’s second quickest century partnership in terms of ball count. These two are also ranked first in this ranking. In the same season, they combined for a century in 30 balls against Delhi.
Lucknow has created multiple unwanted records under its name.
Lucknow has created several unwanted records under its name. The team scored its first four runs while batting in the 9.1st over. The Lucknow team could only hit one six on the power play. This season, no team has hit more than one boundary during a power play. Previously, Royal Challengers Bangalore set the record for not hitting a four in the powerplay. He did not knock any fours on the powerplay against the Mumbai Indians in Pune in 2022. The team only hit two sixes.
The Lucknow team scored 27 runs after losing two wickets during the powerplay. This is the third-lowest powerplay score in IPL 2024. At the same time, Lucknow has the lowest powerplay score in the IPL. Earlier in 2023, he scored 30 runs against Delhi at Lucknow after losing one wicket in the first six overs.