Lucknow Super Giants vs Rajasthan Royals, Match 44 - Live Cricket Score

KL Rahul | LSG captain: I think we left about 20 runs behind. We didn’t get an ideal start but with the partnership me and Hooda had was great. In these sorts of games, the set batter had to score close to a hundred after getting to 50-60. I think we were 150 after about 15 overs, should have capitalized on it a bit more. I think it is clear the team with more sixes ends up winning. We do try to hit our sixes but today we had to change our approach after those two early wicket. If Hooda pushed on and scored 20 more, and I got 20 more then we’d finish around 220. That would have been the difference, that’s the 20 runs we left behind. We’re seeing with every game how important it is to give the bowlers that extra cushion because they are under the pump. Everyone loves range hitting and hitting it all over the park, we are no different. It is part of the prep. Our big hitters are Stoin and Pooran who can hit those big shots. The other guys like us try to pick our areas and time the shots better. (On Mishra and Bishnoi) There is a bit of chat before the game with the numbers and how opposition players match-up. Mishra is an experienced player and today was a day we knew he could be useful with how slow he bowls and with the larger boundaries. Once the runs kept flowing, they put pressure on our bowlers. There were 2-3 overs when Krunal bowled really well and squeezed them but then they attacked the fast bowlers. I couldn’t get a good time to get Bishnoi, wanted to keep him for the backend when Rovman and Hetmyer came out to bat because we know he can bowl well to them.

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Sanju Samson dispatches the ball into the night skies to end the things. RR WIN BY SEVEN WICKETS. 

The skipper remains not out and so does the junior stumper-batter Jurel. Both the batters reach their fifties to secure a commanding win for the Royals, as they reign supreme, on the IPL 2024 Points Table too.

The 18th over brings the game further in RR's favour, as they need under run-a-ball now.

An absolute comedy of mirrors around the 22 yards. Samson hits the ball behind the wickets. Yash Thakur returns a mediocre throw to Mohsin, as Jurel had run more than half the pitch for a run, to which Samson had a complete denial. Mohsin, who couldn't collect the ball well, was unable to flick off the bails.

Royals are 170 for the loss of three.

The last ball of the 16th over goes for a maximum. So now, the second Strategic Timeout has been taken. The pendulum has surely swung RR's way with that onslaught by their skipper.

SS dispatches Bishnoi for consecutive boundaries to bring up the 150 on board for the visitors.

Krunal Pandya bowls out his four overs going wicketless, but his economy has been under check, which stemmed the flow of runs for the opposition, massively supporting LSG to remain in the game.

A reverse sweep by Sanju races to the fence for a four. That's the first boundary off Krunal's bowling tonight.

The dangerous looking Jurel gets a lifeline. He is dropped by Yash Thakur off Mohsin's bowling in the 14th over.

The last ball also carries to Thakur, but this one too has been dropped. A more difficult one this time round, and the ball runs away to the fence as well.

The score is 135 for 3.