🏏IPL 2025 - Match 26: LSG vs GT, 12 April 2025 @ 3:30 PM IST🏏 - Page 35

Pretty cool under pressure from Samad and Badoni. Didn't worry much even with the dot balls. Kept their cool and finished the game. If not for Nicky P's carnage, this game could have gone right down to the wire. LSG didn't have their main opener today as Marsh was not available for this game. Pant came out and did a pretty fine job but it was Markram who did the bulk of the scoring against the new ball. Prasidh Krishna threatened to get GT back in the game but Pooran just didn't let that happen. While he respected and even struggled against the pacer, he showed no mercy to the rest. A quick 58-run stand helped them get ahead of the game. GT made breakthroughs towards the end but LSG had this game in the bag and the closed it out nicely.

Sad that GT lost uff

Shubman Gill: "Wicket wasn't easy to hit from the get go and this was the conversation that if there's one batsman set we have to play 17-18 overs so we can get to 200-210 but losing back-to-back wickets didn't help our cause. When we were batting the ball was stopping, it wasn't an easy wicket from the first ball. Our strike rotation wasn't as good as expected and that's something we have to work on. Always looking to take wickets, that was the conversation. We were behind the game but if we got a few quick wickets, we could take the match deep. We got a few wickets after the 10th over but the ball didn't stop as much as we thought it would. Fighting till the end was a good sign for us. That was the conversation in the second timeout, that we'll take it as deep as possible."

Nicholas Pooran: "It's not much talk. As a group we know we have depth in our batting lineup. Unfortunately Mitch didn't play so Rishabh stepped up and play. Nice to see Aiden get a start and carry on. I surprised myself sometimes. For me it's about trying to get the ball off as close to the middle of the bat as possible and trust my bat swing. If I tell you everything, they'll figure me out eventually [laughs]. Getting the opportunity to bat at No. 3, you need to make the play some times. You need to consolidate sometimes but you have to take your matchups sometimes. Today was one of the days it came off for me."

Shubman Gill: Wicket wasn't easy to hit from the get go. This was the conversation that if there's one batsman set, we have to play at least 17-18 overs so that we can get a good 200-220 total on the board. Losing back-to-back wickets didn't help our cause. It wasn't an easy to wicket. Our strike rotation wasn't as good as we wanted it to be. Always looking to take wickets, that was the conversation. There was a bit of dew after the 10-11th over. When you need 30 off 30, if it goes to the final over, it's a good sign.

@Bold: Nicky P objects.

Nicholas Pooran: "It's not much talk. As a group we know we have depth in our batting lineup. Unfortunately Mitch didn't play so Rishabh stepped up and play. Nice to see Aiden get a start and carry on. I surprised myself sometimes. For me it's about trying to get the ball off as close to the middle of the bat as possible and trust my bat swing. If I tell you everything, they'll figure me out eventually [laughs]. Getting the opportunity to bat at No. 3, you need to make the play some times. You need to consolidate sometimes but you have to take your matchups sometimes. They got Sai on challenging me to hit on the big side but I had to be brave and take on my match-ups. Today was one of the days it came off for me."

Here is Sampath with some stats on Pooran:

Most times reaching fifty in less than 25 balls in the IPL:

9 - David Warner

8 - Kieron Pollard

8 - AB de Villiers

8 - Nicholas Pooran

Four of the eight by Pooran have come in this season, the joint-most by any batter in an IPL season, alongside Travis Head in 2024.

Most times reaching fifty in less than 25 balls in the IPL:

9 - David Warner

8 - Kieron Pollard

8 - AB de Villiers

8 - Nicholas Pooran

Four of the eight by Pooran have come in this season, the joint-most by any batter in an IPL season, alongside Travis Head in 2024.

Didn't see Himmat Singh s batting.

Rishabh Pant: Definitely feeling happy. We just follow the same path and believe inn our ability and just take one game at a time. The idea was to bowl yorker and into the wicket slower balls. Bowlers put in the right place to pull it back for us. The start wasn't happy but the way we pulled it back was amazing. I am feeling much better