On May 8, Lucknow Super Giants faced a massive defeat in the tournament. Sunrisers Hyderabad defeated them by 10 wickets. In this match, the whole Lucknow Super Giants team was outplayed by their opponent. Questions were raised about their form and display. After watching the big defeat, former New Zealand pacer Mitchell McClenaghan lashed out at KL Rahul’s form.
Lucknow’s Heart-Breaking Defeat:
The 57th match of the IPL 2024 has seen an exciting clash between Sunrisers Hyderabad and Lucknow Super Giants at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium. But the match was heartbreaking for the Super Giants. In front of Sunrisers Hyderabad’s excellence, Lucknow Super Giants was blown away. In the whole match, they kept struggling.
Right from the batting first, they kept struggling. Quinton de Kock and Marcus Stoinis walked out early. In front of SRH’s bowling excellence, LSG managed to score 165 runs in the allotted 20 overs. After that, the bowlers also struggled. They struggled to stop the opponent batters and Sunrisers Hyderabad chased down the target in just 10 overs and registered a huge 10-wicket win. That was the biggest defeat of the team.
Mitchell McClenaghan on KL Rahul:
In the whole match, the team struggled throughout. While opening with Quinton de Kock, KL Rahul played an innings of 29 runs in 33 balls with a strike rate of 87.88. He failed to hit some biggies. In this season, KL Rahul’s batting faced a lot of criticism but after the 10-wicket defeat against Hyderabad went to another level.
Former New Zealand pacer Mitchell McClenaghan criticized Lucknow Super Giants captain KL Rahul for his sluggish batting display in the recent match against New Zealand. He said, “If this doesn’t wake KL up to the style of cricket he needs to play going forward to be successful and to continue playing for India, I don’t know what will. He can do it. He has got to get past, very similar to what we’ve seen with Virat (Kohli), the feeling of ‘ You’re the only person that can score runs’. And he’s got to go, right, I need to score runs but if I am going to miss out, it’s okay,”
Later he added, “Trust the other guys to do the job. It looks like he’s carrying the whole team on his back thinking that if he doesn’t bat the innings, they are not going to get a score. So, if he does get out like tonight, they’re a long way behind where they need to be.”
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