Sunrisers Hyderabad rode on Abhishek Sharma’s blitz to extinguish the final remaining embers of Lucknow Super Giants’ playoff hopes in IPL 2025 with a complete six-wicket win on the Ekana Stadium in Lucknow on Monday (May 19, 2025).
Asked to bat, LSG’s Mitchell Marsh first handed debutant Harsh Dubey a tricky initiation to life within the IPL after which welcomed Eshan Malinga by smacking the ball over deep backward sq. and onto the parked sponsor automobile.
Aiden Markram and Marsh, who introduced up their fifth half-centuries of the season, each obtained reprieves within the area of 9 balls.
However, Sunrisers pegged the house workforce again, sending again Marsh and Rishabh Pant in fast succession. The slower ball was employed to good impact to squeeze the run circulation. An eventful closing over that includes three dismissals and two humongous sixes noticed SRH maintain again the host, however not sufficient to forestall one other 200-plus goal.
Lucknow Super Giants’ Aiden Markram drives Harsh Dubey of Sunrisers Hyderabad throughout IPL match at Ekana stadium, in Lucknow on May 19, 2025
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Sandeep Saxena
Will O’Rourke, on IPL debut, gave LSG an early breakthrough by scalping Atharva Taide. Abhishek then threatened to make it one other evening to neglect for LSG and its followers, one 12 months after his blitzkrieg in Hyderabad.
Ravi Bishnoi bore the brunt of his wrath. Four consecutive sixes — over long-off, long-on, straight down the bottom and deep mid-wicket — not solely helped Sunrisers take management of the proceedings but additionally gave Abhishek an 18-ball half century.
It was the fourth time he has reached the mark in fewer than 20 balls, the joint-most in IPL with Nicholas Pooran.
Digvesh Rathi introduced an finish to Abhishek’s assault with a googly and duly introduced out the pocket book celebration, which led to a quick heated second between the 2. Digvesh then broke Ishan Kishan and Heinrich Klaasen’s 41-run stand when the previous couldn’t time his reverse sweep and noticed his wickets rattled.
Kamindu Mendis exacted revenge, smacking Digvesh for 3 fours on the trot, the spotlight being a premeditated reverse sweep that despatched the ball crusing between backward level and brief third man.
The semi-packed stands started to slowly filter by the point Klaasen was dismissed and Mendis retired harm earlier than Aniket Verma and Nitish Kumar wrapped up the win with 10 balls to spare.
Published – May 19, 2025 10:07 pm IST
