Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) locked horns with Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) in their third game of the season. The sides are led by Kane Williamson and KL Rahul respectively, while the game took place at the DY Patil Stadium in Navi Mumbai. Kane Williamson decided to field after winning the toss. While batting first, LSG scored a decent total of 169 for the loss of 7 wickets. The skipper stood up to score 68 runs off just 50 deliveries.
However, SRH failed to chase the total as they only managed to reach 157 at the loss of 9 wickets. Avesh Khan scalped 4 wickets, He managed to break the backbone of the Hyderabad-based franchise. On the 14th over of the match, Krunal Pandya provided the KL Rahul-led Lucknow Super Giants a crucial breakthrough as Rahul Tripathi was dismissed on the score of 44 He took just 30 deliveries in the span of the innings.
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The left-arm spinner bowled a flighted full-length delivery, and Rahul Tripathi tried to attempt a sweep-shot to clear the mid-wicket region. However, he failed to time the ball well completely. Ravi Bishnoi did the remaining job after taking an easy catch at mid-wicket.
Krunal Pandya was seen doing a rather angry celebration while giving a stare to Rahul Tripathi. The right-hand batsman looked extremely disappointed as he looked up, closing his eyes. It was the 3rd occasion on which Pandya got Tripathi out in the history of the league.
Here is how Krunal Pandya celebrated the dismissal:
Lucknow Super Giants (playing XI): KL Rahul(c), Quinton de Kock(w), Manish Pandey, Evin Lewis, Deepak Hooda, Ayush Badoni, Krunal Pandya, Jason Holder, Andrew Tye, Ravi Bishnoi, Avesh Khan
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Sunrisers Hyderabad (playing XI): Kane Williamson(c), Abhishek Sharma, Rahul Tripathi, Nicholas Pooran(w), Aiden Markram, Abdul Samad, Romario Shepherd, Washington Sundar, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, T Natarajan, Umran Malik
Here is how the fans reacted to the dismissal:
Rahul Tripathi goes after playing a brilliant knock.Krunal Pandya gets the big wicket. This is his second wicket of this match and also at a Very Crucial time for LSG.#IPL2022 #SRHvsLSG pic.twitter.com/m557etOGYY
— Rahul Choudhary (@Rahulc7official) April 4, 2022
Krunal abusing tripathi in Marathi
— ** (@K1ckbut) April 4, 2022
Krunal just giving at 6.75 RPO in 170 game, taking important wickets of Rahul Tripathi and Aiden Markram.
Limiting lefty Pooran.— JoeCricket_ (@Joecricket_) April 4, 2022
Krunal Pandya got Rahul Tripathi for the 3rd time IPL !#SRHvLSG #IPL2022
— Sports Freak (@OfficialSfreak) April 4, 2022
And Krunal Pandya dismisses Rahul Tripathi yet again
Tripathi never looked comfortable against Krunal which improves Krunal’s numbers 🙌🏻
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— Sports Taaza (@SportsTaaza) April 4, 2022
