KL Rahul and bowlers guided Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) to an emphatic 36-run win over Mumbai Indians (MI) at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai on S♒unday, April 24.
With this defeat, Rohit Sharma’s MI is all but out of the playoffs race. It was their eighth consecutive loss in IPL 2022, making them the only team to face this situation during the tournament’s history.
For LSG, skipper Rahul played a standout knock at a surface where other ba𒀰tters struggled to connect the ball with the bat. Rahul notched up his second century of the season to take his side to a competitive total of 168/6.
In reply, MI never looked settled for🐈 the chase as they lost their top-four batters for just ღ67 runs in 11.2 overs.
Young Tilak Varma (38 off 27) tried his best to take the game closer for his team, but after his dismissal in the 18th over, things became easy for the 🐈Lucknow bowlers.
MI could only score 132 runs for the loss of eight wickets an𒁏d again failed to opeಞn their account in the points table.
Here’s how Twitter reacted:
KL Rahul churning out the runs again!!! 2nd♛ 💯 for tꦬhis years SR excellent 💥
— Lisa Sthalekar (@sthalekar93)
Congratulations for ur another Ipl 💯 𝐆bro @klrahul11 top player 😊🙌
— Rahul Sharma (@ImRahulSharma3)
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A Masterclass in Construction, Execution and Awareness. Your Eyesight watching can only get better. Pure Azz…without batti💖ng an eyelid. Win, Lose the bar is up @klrahul11
— Ravi Shastri (@RaviShastriOfc)
Batting is an art, Kl Rahul is an artist 💯 👏
— Irfan Pathan (@IrfanPathan)
Mumbai Season Mudinjudu 🙏
— S.Badrinath (@s_badrinath)
CLASS KL RAHUL @klrahul11 what a 100
— Harbhajan Turbanator (@harbhajan_singh)
Leading from the front, Captain @klrahul11 is adjudged the Player of the Match for his outstanding k𓆉nock of 103*
— IndianPremierLeague (@IPL)
With qualifying chances all but over, MI fans rest of the IPL: ♑
— Wasim Jaffer (@WasimJaffer14)
Mumbai Indians becomes🉐 the first team to lose the first 8 matches in IPLও history.
— Johns. (@CricCrazyJohns)
