🏏 IPL 2024 ~ Match N 26 ~ LSG vs DC in Lucknow @7.30 PM IST 🏏 - Page 4

Originally posted by: Satrangi_Curls

Sounds like a good match

How ? DC is litterally T the bottom of the table 🤣🤣🤣. They are another RCB equivalent team 🤣🤣🤣

Kuldeep Yadav: "I got injured in the first match - it was a groin issue - and it got aggravated since I also played in the second match. [I am] getting better. We've played well, other than against KKR, which was a one-sided match. Size of the grounds doesn't matter - all sixes go out of it anyway!"

Nicholas Pooran: It's going nicely so far, most important is my contribution for the team, trying our best to win games. My job is to continue playing according to situations. The key to power hitting I believe is all about hardwork. It's taken me a few years, since the age of 20 I started to focus on my power hitting. Just trying to figure out what is the right position, what I am comfortable with. The key is also the head position, head going towards the ball, transfering the weight as well is important. The key to T20 batting is a bit different, it's a short game and you got to score quickly. It's more about trying to understand the game situation, trusting your skills, trusting your game and decision making. Understanding what you have to do, when you have to do. There will be days when a bowler is bowling well and you won't be able to take him down, but the same bowler on some other day, you might be able to take him. You need to execute in different situations. Lucknow is a big venue, setting a total is challenging when one side is big, one side is small. You can shut down one side completely. There are different venues in India, there are a few small grounds as well. For us it has been brilliant in Lucknow, this is our home and we need to be the best team here at home.

LSG could take the spin route to win again. Krunal Pandya, Ravi Bishnoi and M Siddharth had restricted Gujarat Titans during the hosts' successful defense of 163 a few nights back; so why would LSG want to deviate from producing a spin-friendly pitch again? Here's the preview looking forward to their game against DC, who are yet to beat LSG in three attempts so far. In other news for the day, LSG's special talent Mayank Yadav has all but been ruled out of their next two matches, as coach Justin Langer confirmed last evening.

Pitch and Conditions: "We are in the land of the Super Giants, one thing we have got here is a giant boundary - 73 meters on one side and that's lot bigger than normal, 80 meters in the corner/pockets, other side is 66 meters. As a bowler you will be so happy to see such an expansive field," says an ecstatic Graeme Swann. "This ground has some of the longest boundaries and that's what you want to see with the kind of power that the batters exhume nowadays. As a spinner I don't think you would like this pitch as there's lot more grass on this surface. Grass being left on the pitches now to ensure they don't crumble and also because India have discovered so many new fast bowlers. All of them are making the ball fly. Every team are encouraging the groundsman to put a little more grass. The ball will come on to the bat nicely and if you are a good player, you can make use of the pace and bang the ball around. We can see lot more runs despite the big boundaries," reckons Sunil Gavaskar.

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Thank you for the tag, WD

BM

Lsg won toss and choose to bat first

It is cloudy and windy in Lucknow at the moment, as we get closer to the action. LSG win the toss and bat.