IPL 2023: Left-arm pacer Mohsin Khan, who engineered the exciting five-run victory for Lucknow Super Giants over Mumbai Indians on Tuesday, paid tribute to his sick father, who had been discharged from the hospital after spending 10 days in the intensive care unit, during the game. The 24-year-old from Uttar Pradesh had a great season last year but was sidelined this year by a left shoulder injury, missing the all of the domestic campaign and the most of the IPL. Follow IPL 2023 Live Updates with InsideSport.IN.
Khan, who playing in only his second IPL game of 2023, held off the destructive Tim David in the final over as the Lucknow Super Giants defeated the Mumbai Indians by five runs to move one step closer to the playoffs.
“It’s been a tough time as I was injured, playing after a year. My father got discharged from the ICU yesterday and he was in the hospital for the last 10 days and I did it for him, he would have been watching,” he said at the presentation.
“I’m grateful to the team and the support staff, Gautam (Gambhir) sir, Vijay (Dahiya) sir for playing me this game even though I did not do well in the last game.” Talking about his plan in the final over, Khan said: “The plan was to execute what I did in practice. Even Krunal was talking to me and I told him the same.
“The run-up is the same, did not change it in the last over. I was trying to calm myself down, not look at the scoreboard and bowl the 6 balls well. Since the wicket was gripping, I tried the slower ball, but I bowled two of those and then changed to the yorker and it was reversing as well.”
Mumbai Indians skipper Rohit Sharma said his team couldn’t win the little moments and lost its way in the second half of the chase. “We didn’t play well enough to win the game. There were little moments in the game that we didn’t win unfortunately.
“We assessed the pitch really well and it was a good pitch to bat on and that score was definitely chaseable and we lost our way in the second half of the innings.” With Marcus Stoinis (89 off 47 balls) on song, Mumbai leaked 54 runs in the last three overs.
“We gave too many runs at the back end and the last three overs went for a few. But the way we started with the bat we were in a good position to chase, but like I said we lost our way in the second half.
“He (Stoinis) played really well, kept hitting straight which is what you need to do on a pitch like this. It was a brilliant knock from him.”
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