New Delhi: Captain of Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) KL Rahul Won the toss and decided to bowl first against Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR). ipl 2024 Match at Ekana Cricket Stadium, Lucknow on Sunday.
LSG brought in Yash Thakur In place of injured Mayank Yadav, KKR brought in Harshit Rana in place of Vaibhav Arora.
After deciding to take the field, captain KL Rahul, who has not been included in India's squad for the T20 World Cup in West Indies and USA, said: “I am not the best reader of the wicket, we just want to chase. I like it.”
“The good thing is that we have been able to adapt to the conditions really well and quickly, there have been some fantastic individual performances as well. There has been a lot of talk about strike-rate, and a lot of change in T20 cricket Is.” “In the last few years he was injured in the last game, Yash Thakur came in for Mayank Yadav,” he said.
LSG brought in Yash Thakur In place of injured Mayank Yadav, KKR brought in Harshit Rana in place of Vaibhav Arora.
After deciding to take the field, captain KL Rahul, who has not been included in India's squad for the T20 World Cup in West Indies and USA, said: “I am not the best reader of the wicket, we just want to chase. I like it.”
“The good thing is that we have been able to adapt to the conditions really well and quickly, there have been some fantastic individual performances as well. There has been a lot of talk about strike-rate, and a lot of change in T20 cricket Is.” “In the last few years he was injured in the last game, Yash Thakur came in for Mayank Yadav,” he said.
A day before the match, Rahul was seen practicing speaking in the local Lucknow dialect.
From the famous Lucknowi 'Bhak' to the phrase 'Badtameez mat kariye aap humse', KL Rahul was adept at saying these famous Lucknow expressions.
the teams:
Lucknow Super Giants: KL Rahul (captain/wicketkeeper), Marcus Stoinis, Deepak Hooda, Nicholas Pooran, Ashton Turner, Ayush Badoni, Krunal Pandya, Ravi Bishnoi, Naveen-ul-Haq, Mohsin Khan, Yash Thakur.
Kolkata Knight Riders: Shreyas Iyer (captain), Philip Salt (wicketkeeper), Sunil Narine, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Venkatesh Iyer, Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Ramandeep Singh, Mitchell Starc, Varun Chakravarthy, Harshit Rana.