Deepak Hooda and Ayush Badoni notched up brilliant half-centuries for LSG to rescue them to a decent total after GT veteran Mohammed Shami ran through the top-order in the IPL 2022 contest on Monday.
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Deepak Hooda (55) and Ayush Badoni (54) played brilliant rescue knocks to help Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) post 158/6 in the IPL 2022 contest against Gujarat Titans (GT) at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai after pace-ace Mohammed Shami picked up three early wickets. Asked to bat, factoring in the dew factor, LSG lost their top-order batters KL Rahul (0), Quinton de Kock (7), Evin Lewis (10) and Manish Pandey (6) to leave their side reeling at 29/4.
However, middle-order batters Hooda and Badoni, forged an 87-run stand for the fifth wicket to rescue their side to 116/5 before the former was sent packing in the 16th over.
Hooda smashed four boundaries and two hits over the top. However, unperturbed by his dismissal, young Badoni continued to show his confidence to hit four boundaries and three sixes in his 41-ball knock.
Badoni was well complimented by all-rounder Krunal Pandya (21 not out) who played a brilliant cameo knock to help LSG cross the 150-run mark. He hit three fours in his unbeaten stay of 13 deliveries.
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Veteran India fast bowler Mohammed Shami used his experience to the fore for Gujarat Titans to run through the LSG top-order — Rahul, de Kock and Pandey (6) — and make a head start in the IPL 2022. He was the pick of the bowlers for GT as he returned figures of three for 25.
His fellow fast bowler Varun Aaron meanwhile picked up two wickets while ace-spinner Rashid Khan scalped a wicket.
