The 57th match of IPL 2024 was played between Sunrisers Hyderabad and Lucknow Super Giants on 8 May. Lucknow batted first in this match and SRH J Sambe scored 165 runs.

Captain KL Rahul, Quinton de Kock, Marcus Stoinis, Krunal Pandya could not play big innings for the team, but Ayush Badoni and Nicholas Pooran made a partnership of 99 runs in 52 balls for the fifth wicket. Puran scored 48 runs on 26 balls and Badoni scored 55 runs on 30 balls. For Hyderabad, Bhuvneshwar Kumar took 2 wickets for 12 runs.

The pair of Travis Head and Abhishek Sharma created a stir

While chasing the target, SRH’s opening pair Abhishek Sharma and Travis Head batted brilliantly. Head scored unbeaten 89 runs in 30 balls with the help of 8 fours and 8 sixes. At the same time, Abhishek scored unbeaten 75 runs with the help of 8 fours and 6 sixes in 28 balls. Due to the explosive batting of these two, the team did not lose any wicket and won by a huge margin with 62 balls remaining. In just fifteen minutes, the Travis-Abhishek duo achieved Lucknow’s target and ended the match.

Australian legend Matthew is furious at Lucknow

Australian legend Matthew Hayden has expressed extreme anger over Lucknow’s performance against Hyderabad. Matthew Hayden expressed his displeasure against Lucknow and said that-

“When you know that the opposition team has batsmen like Head, Abhishek and Klaasen, then the team has to think about a run rate of more than 10 runs per over. You played slowly even in the powerplay, which took the score somewhere else. 160 or 170 runs are not enough here. I think it would be right to call Lucknow out of IPL.”