LSG vs KKR: Watch - KL Rahul plucks a one-handed screamer to push aside Shreyas Iyer

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The Lucknow Tremendous Giants (LSG) skipper KL Rahul plucked an absolute screamer to push aside the Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) captain Shreyas Iyer within the 54th fit of the Indian Premier League 2024 (IPL 2024) on the Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Cricket Stadium in Lucknow on Sunday, Might 5.

Shreyas Iyer has been doing an ideal activity for Kolkata Knight Riders as a pacesetter and his bowling adjustments, in addition to fielding placements, had been spot-on. Whilst his management has been sensational, the similar cannot be stated about his batting as he has been inconsistent and hasn’t scored runs at a excellent strike price.

Within the fit towards LSG, Shreyas Iyer got here to bat at No.6 and he scored simply 23 runs off 15 balls, together with 3 fours, earlier than being brushed aside by way of the tempo bowler Yash Thakur within the ultimate over of the primary innings.

At the 3rd ball of the 20 th over, Yash Thakur bowled a deficient 138.9kph cross-seam brief ball at the heart and leg stump. The KKR skipper determined to head within the line to drag it at the back of sq. however ended up gloving it. The ball went against the wicketkeeper KL Rahul, who dived to his left to take a fully sensational one-handed catch.

Watch: KL Rahul Takes Stunner To Disregard Shreyas Iyer

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In spite of everything, Kolkata Knight Riders posted 235 for six with the opener Sunil Narine being the highest performer along with his 39-ball 81. With their overall, Kolkata Knight Riders equaled the document of Mumbai Indians for many 200-plus totals in an IPL season. Additionally they become the staff to put up the easiest overall at the board towards Lucknow Tremendous Giants in addition to in Lucknow.

Maximum 200+ staff totals in an IPL season

6 – MI in 2023

6* – KKR in 2024

5 – CSK in 2023

5 – GT in 2023

5* – SRH in 2024

Absolute best staff totals towards LSG

235/6 – KKR, Lucknow, 2024*

227/2 – GT, Ahmedabad, 2023

217/7 – CSK, Chennai, 2023

212/2 – RCB, Bengaluru, 2023

210/7 – CSK, Brabourne, 2022

Absolute best staff totals at Lucknow

235/6 – KKR vs LSG, nowadays*

199/8 – LSG vs PBKS, 2024

199/3 – RR vs LSG, 2024 (a success chase)

196/5 – LSG vs RR, 2024

193/6 – LSG vs DC, 2023

Previous, talking after successful the toss, the LSG skipper, who grabbed a shocking catch, stated that he’s no longer the most efficient reader of the pitch. KL Rahul stated:

“We will be able to bowl first. I am not the most efficient reader of a wicket, we similar to chasing. The nice factor is we’ve been in a position to evolve in point of fact smartly and briefly to the stipulations, there were moderately a couple of good particular person performances as smartly.”

KL Rahul, who had previous made the ‘strike price is overvalued’ remark, additional spoke concerning the strike price in T20s, announcing that so much has modified in the previous couple of years. He stated:

“There is been numerous speak about strike-rate, and T20 cricket has modified so much within the remaining couple of years. He used to be injured within the remaining recreation, Yash Thakur is available in for Mayank Yadav.”

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