Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) skipper KL Rahul shared a hilarious response to a query on getting hurt after being hit by a throw from one of his teammates.
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Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) skipper KL Rahul shared a hilarious response to a query on getting hurt after being hit by a throw from one of his teammates in the IPL 2023. He stated that he was clearly doing something wrong as captain. However, LSG beat the Rajasthan Royals (RR) by 10 runs in the 26th match of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2023 at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium in Jaipur on Wednesday, April 19. Batting first after losing the toss, LSG posted 154/7 on the board and then restricted the opponents to 144/6.
At the post-match presentation, host Sanjay Manjrekar enquired about KL Rahul getting hit on the hand during the game of IPL 2023. The LSG captain cheekily responded: “I got hit by one of the throws from my own teammates. I am doing something wrong as a captain clearly.”
However, on a serious note, he said that the track was not all that easy to bat on, adding that 160 was a good score on it. KL Rahul stated:
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“In the 10 over mark, the message me and Kyle [Mayers] sent out was 160 would be a good total on this track, they have some good bowlers as well who exploited the conditions. We fell 10 short but made up with the ball. And there was no dew so made it fair for both teams.“We came in here yesterday [Tuesday] and saw 180 would be a par score, but the first over from [Trent] Boult, me and Kyle had a chat and realised this isn’t a 180 wicket. The ball was keeping a bit low, so we gave ourselves time in the powerplay. Maybe if we played a bit better, we might have got 170 as well.”
On the other hand, Rajasthan Royals got off to a flying start with Jos Buttler and Yashasvi Jaiswal but their contribution went in vain and they lost the game in the end. After the game, captain Sanju Samson opened up on this.
Sanju Samson said: “Not that great (feeling) after a loss, but it’s okay. We’d have loved to win the first game at Jaipur. We’ll definitely take lessons and move on. With the batting line-up we have, it was a very chaseable score. But they bowled really well, used the conditions really well. (Conditions) Personally I was expecting something like this, bit of slow and low kind of wicket is what I expected and we got that. You need to play some smart cricket and we did that till the ninth over. Right after Jaiswal got out, it was a matter of getting that one big partnership.”
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“They bowled really well, whenever we tried to go hard at them, I think we lost wickets. 5 overs 50 in this kind of wicket is a bit tough with the way they were bowling. Even if you win or lose a game, you take lessons out of it, that’s the beauty of this game. We’ll be taking lot of lessons out of it. We did a reasonably good job to restrict them to 150. There are lots of lessons in the bowling side as well and in the batting also. We expect much better performance and we all know the standard of cricket we’ve been playing. We have to move forward and play some better cricket,” he concluded.
