'Will make fun of the strike rate…', Rahul gave statement after slow innings against Gujarat

CricketInfoBlog Team 8 months ago 2 min read

Lucknow Super Giants beat Gujarat Titans
Batting first, Lucknow could score only 163 runs.
GT team could not achieve even this easy target

In the 21st match of IPL 2023, KL Rahul's team Lucknow Super Giants defeated Gujarat Titans. In this match, the Lucknow team, batting first, could score only 163 runs, due to which it seemed that the Gujarat team would easily win the match, but the GT team captained by Shubman Gill could not achieve even this easy target. And lost the match by 33 runs. Even though Lucknow won the match, KL Rahul's slow batting is being discussed a lot. KL Rahul played a very slow innings in this match. Rahul scored only 33 runs in 31 balls. In such a situation, after the match, questions were being raised about KL Rahul's slow batting. KL Rahul has also given a statement regarding this in a video. KL Rahul said that now you will make fun of the strike rate.

What did KL Rahul say?

After the win against Lucknow Supergiants, LSG posted a video of KL Rahul on their Twitter handle. In this video, a fan of Lucknow Super Giants comes to KL Rahul and first congratulates him on the victory, then asks him to declare him the Defense Minister of India. On this Rahul said that now you will make fun of my strike rate also. It is clear from Rahul's statement that he is being made fun of because of his slow innings. Despite Lucknow defending the target of only 164 runs, KL Rahul's batting is under question. On social media, fans are blaming KL Rahul for Lucknow's low score.

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How was Lucknow conquered?

In this match, Lucknow Super Giants won the toss and decided to bat first. It seemed that LSG would be successful in making a big score on the scoreboard, but the entire team was limited to just 163 runs. Lucknow scored 163 runs at the loss of 5 wickets. For LSG, Marcus Stoinis scored 58 runs in 43 balls, while Nicholas Pooran also scored 32 runs in the last 22 balls. After this, when the Gujarat team came into the field to chase the target, the start was quite good. Gujarat's first wicket fell at the score of 54 runs, but by the time the score reached 130, the entire team was all out. Yash Thakur took maximum 5 wickets. Apart from this, Krunal Pandya also took 3 wickets in his name. Thus Lucknow won the match.