Hello, good morning and welcome to my page once again, it was a nice Sunday as there were two matches where the first one is much more boring because of low scoring and both teams' intent was also defensive. Whereas in the second match, it looks like a fight for 2nd place where RR won easily on the high scoring ground. LSG did lots of mistakes and it cost them a lot which we saw in the result. So it's time to discuss it in detail so let's start it.
RR has won the toss and chose to bat first as now finally captains understand that batting first is also a good decision. RR lost Buttler early as Avesh Khan did strike in his first over. He bowled so well and thus got a wicket. In the 4th over of the inning, Mohsin Khan dropped an easy catch of Jaiswal in the Avesh Khan bowl which cost them a lot as then he scored lots of boundaries and gave momentum to RR in the powerplay.
Samson and Jaiswal did good batting and made a useful quick partnership of 64 runs which was broken by Holder. Soon Jaiswal is also out on Badoni's bowling. Once again RR looks struggling but from one end Paddikal keeps scoring and runs around 200 SR. When he was out, RR became slow but lat last Boult played a nice shot inning which took them to a good total of 178 runs.
It's a batting pitch and once again De Kock is out early thus they experimented with sending Badoni but he is also out on the first ball as Boult took 2 wickets in 2 balls. Rahul was playing slowly and trying to pass Boult over. He took chance on other bowlers and hit six but the next ball of Prasidh Krishna, was out and his team was in trouble as 30/3 in power play.
Deepak Hooda was once again in good touch as he was only able to score runs aggressively as he started to build up a partnership with Krunal Pandya but not last long as Pandya was out and it's once again started to the tumbling of wickets as well as Hooda too as was out by Chahal on 59. Stoinis once again failed to score big and LSG was only able to manage 154 runs and lost the match by 24 runs. Trent Boult got man of the match for his brilliant opening spell.
The reason behind the loss of LSG is the poor decision of bowling as their main bowler who did good bowling and took wickets didn't get their full spell as Avesh Khan and Holder bowled 3 and 2 overs respectively. The experiment of Badoni at no 3 also does not go well as well as giving lots of chances to Stoinis is also not going well as Lewis is much better than him. Maybe they are already qualified and thus trying this but with it, they may lose their 2nd number in the points table as miss chances of playing one extra match.
