Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) made an amazing start to their game against Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) in the seventh game of the Indian Premier League (IPL) season. Shardul Thakur, who came in as a replacement player for Mohsin Khan, struck twice in two balls. The 33-year-old got the wickets of Abishek Sharma and Ishan Kishan to silence the noisy crowd at the Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium on Friday.
On the first ball of the third over, Thakur bowled a short ball that Abhishek Sharma tried to pull. The batter couldn’t time the ball well and hit it straight into the hands of Nicholas Pooran, who was fielding at deep square leg. Sharma was out for six runs from six balls with one hit to the fence.
Ishan Kishan walked into bat at number three after scoring a century in the last game. Thakur strangled the batter down the leg side as Kishan got a thin edge and Pant completed the catch. Only the bowler was seen going up in appeal as the umpire was quick to raise his finger with Kishan getting out for a golden duck. The hattrick ball to Nitish Reddy was a yorker, which the batter dugout with ease.
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Travis Head continues his sizzling form with the bat
Rishabh Pant won the toss for LSG and put Hyderabad into bat. There was only change for the visitors as Shahbaz Ahmed was replaced by Avesh Khan. SRH, on the other hand, went in with the same side that had played against Rajasthan Royals and won by 44 runs. Shardul Thakur opened the bowling for LSG and gave away just six runs from the opening over.
The second over bowled by Avesh Khan saw nine runs being scored with two boundaries being hit. In the third over, Travis Head played a tremendous shot that sped to the fence for four. In the final ball of the over, Nitish Reddy hit a tremendous drive to send the home fans into raptures.
The fourth over of the innings saw 18 runs being scored as Avesh Khan was hit for two sixes and a four in the over. Skipper Rishabh Pant could be seen getting frustrated as the hosts raced to 45 runs for the loss of two wickets and scoring well above 11 runs per over.
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