IPL 2023: Krunal takes Lucknow to comfortable five-wicket win over Hyderabad

Krunal Pandyas allround show first helped the Lucknow Super Giants to restrict Sunrisers Hyderabad to 1218 on a sluggish blacksoil pitch in tenth match of IPL 2023 at the Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Cricket Stadium on FridayPandya then chipped in with 34 off 23 balls and shared a 55run partnership off 38 balls for the third wicket with captain KL Rahul who topscored with 35 to complete chase of 122 with four overs to spare and take the side to a comfortable fivewicket victory Their second victory at home meant Lucknow are the new tabletoppers in the tenteam competitionKrunal was undoubtedly the pick of the bowlers for Lucknow constantly attacking the stumps to pick a tidy 318 in his four overs Veteran legspinner Amit Mishra took 223 while Ravi Bishnoi and Yash Thakur chipped in with a scalp eachLucknow drew first blood in the third over as Mayank Agarwal went for an uppish drive against Krunal but he was undone by the flight and ended up giving a tame chip to cover Anmolpreet Singh got some boundaries with lovely punch sweep and chip over midoffAlso Read IPL 2023 ExMumbai stumpers Parkar Kulkarni not too pleased with Sarfarazrsquos glove work v LSGThough Anmolpreet survived an lbw appeal off Thakur in the final over of Powerplay he didnt have the same luck in the eighth over as Krunal trapped him lbw with a flatter and quicker delivery on stumps going past the bat to hit the back padOn the very next ball Krunals tossedup delivery kept low and skidded past Aiden Markrams bat to rattle his offstump sending the SRH skipper back for a golden duckBishnoi entered the wickettakers column by setting up Harry Brook with three consecutive quick googlies before the legbreak was slipped in to beat an advancing Brook on the outside edge and was stumped easilyRahul Tripathi and Washington Sundar went on the defensive to stitch a 39run partnership off 50 balls Tripathi got some boundaries through the offside including off a reversesweep to give the score bit of a pushBut in a bid to ramp off Thakur in the 18th over Tripathi was caught by Mishra at short third man diving full length to his left to grab a stunning catch with both hands In the next over Mishra had Sundar and Adil Rashid holing out to longon and longoff respectivelyIt took Abdul Samads cameo of 21 off 10 balls including two sixes off Jaydev Unadkat in the final over to help SRH cross 120mark In reply Lucknow cruised to 350 in four overs While Rahul was solid in his drives and flicks to pick three fours Kyle Mayers had some luck as bails didnt fall off after being beaten by Fazalhaq Farooqui apart from picking two boundariesFarooqi had success in the fifth over as Mayers pulled straight to deep square leg Bhuvneshwar Kumar was hit for a huge six by Deepak Hooda down the ground in the last over of Powerplay After four dot balls Bhuvneshwar had Hoodas wicket by taking a low onehanded catch to his left for completing a caughtandbowled dismissalPost Powerplay which had just two overs of spin Rahul punched Rashid through deep cover followed by Krunal driving Markram sweetly through extra cover Krunal used his feet well in launching Rashid over longon for six before driving and pulling off T Natarajan and Umran Malik for boundariesAfter slicing Umran over midoff for four on the first ball of 13th over Krunal fell on the very next ball in an attempt to cut and gave an outside edge to Anmolpreet Marcus Stoinis hit boundaries off fast bowlers through fine leg and down the ground to bring Lucknow closer to victoryBut Rahul fell in the 15th over trapped lbw while going for a reverse sweep on a legbreak off Rashid On the very next ball Rashid trapped Romario Shepherd lbw with a googly Nicholas Pooran swept Rashid for four before finishing off the innings with a six launched over square leg off NatarajanBrief scoresSunrisers Hyderabad 1218 in 20 overs Rahul Tripathi 34 Anmolpreet Singh 31 Krunal Pandya 318 Amit Mishra 223 lost to Lucknow Super Giants 1275 in 16 overs KL Rahul 35 Krunal Pandya 34 Adil Rashid 223 Fazalhaq Farooqui 113 by five wicketsThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever