SRH vs LSG, IPL 2025: Lucknow Super Giants packed their side with several new players, returned to Hyderabad and won a grudge game you could be forgiven for forgetting was a grudge game. On May 8, 2024, SRH had gunned down 167 off 9.4 overs without losing a wicket. Abhishek Sharma was unbeaten on 75 while Travis Head smashed 89 not out.
If you thought it was a nasty defeat, what unfolded after the game was perhaps even worse as LSG owner Sanjeev Goenka appeared to publicly admonish the then-captain KL Rahul. Rahul and LSG have since parted ways but this victory in IPL 2025 on Thursday was a welcome relief for a team which wants to reinvent itself this summer.
Hyderabad conquered
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Win secured#LSG get their first 𝐖 of #TATAIPL 2025 with a comfortable victory over #SRH
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LSG get a taste of their own medicine
SRH were given a treat of their own medicine by Nicholas Pooran (70 off 26) and Mitchell Marsh (52 off 31) as LSG reached home with plenty to spare. It wasn’t as convincing as the SRH win last year, but it was still a huge statement.
Tasked with chasing 191, LSG lost Aiden Markram early, but Pooran and Marsh added 116 in 7.1 overs to seal the deal for the team. Both men struck their second consecutive fifties of the season and their partnership was the highlight of a win which should put wide smiles on all the faces in the LSG dressing-room.
Pat Cummins removed Pooran and Marsh to keep SRH interested, but that partnership put LSG so far ahead that even Rishabh Pant’s dismissal did not make the visitors nervous, and they romped home with 5 wickets and 23 balls to spare.
At the toss, LSG skipper said, “We are gonna chase whatever they score, doesn’t matter.” And LSG kept that promise.
Raining sixes in Hyderabad… but by #LSG
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Nicholas Pooran show guides LSG to 77/1 after 6 overs
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SRH off the mark
Sunrisers Hyderabad have assembled one of the fiercest batting line-ups in contemporary T20 cricket and this firepower was key in their journey to the final last year and their season-opening victory over Rajasthan Royals.
However, on Thursday, SRH were never really in the game despite Travis Head’s 47. Abhishek Sharma failed for the second successive time, while Ishan Kishan fell for a golden duck after a swashbuckling hundred four days back. Nitish Kumar Reddy was never in control during his 32, and it was thanks to cameos from Heinrich Klaasen and Aniket Verma that SRH reached 190 for 9 off their 20 overs.
Shardul Thakur, who went unsold in the auction and got called up to the LSG side days before the season got underway, finished with career-best figures of 4 for 34 and took possession of the Purple Cap. Prince Yadav also made a serious impact with the wicket of Travis Head, the only SRH batter on Thursday night who threatened to blow LSG away.
