Lucknow: On Saturday, 27 April, a match was played between Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) and Rajasthan Royals (RR) at Bharat Ratna Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Stadium. In this match, Rajasthan has almost qualified for the playoffs by defeating Lucknow by 7 wickets. After LSG's defeat in this match, former Indian batsman Mohammad Kaif appeared very angry with captain KL Rahul and criticized him a lot. Let us tell you that in this match, Lucknow had scored 196 runs while batting first but they could not defend it.

After the defeat in the match, Kaif put the blame on Rahul. He believes that KL did not captain well in this match and this was the reason why the team had to face defeat. Apart from this, he could not use his bowlers properly and he himself is responsible for this defeat. Mohammad Kaif gave a big statement during a conversation on Star Sports after the end of the match.

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He said, “KL Rahul has captained very poorly in this match. He did not make Ravi Bishnoi bowl even a single over for 15 overs. If you do not want Bishnoi to bowl, then do not include him in the playing eleven. Apart from this, Marcus Stoinis was made to bowl only one over and in that he also took one wicket by giving 3 runs but later he was not made to bowl. These have been some of the decisions of KL Rahul, which have proved costly for Lucknow.”

Let us tell you that in this match against Rajasthan, Rahul did not bowl to Bishnoi for 15 overs, even though he is his main bowler. The star spinner bowled only one over in this match, in which he spent a total of 16 runs. Apart from this, Rahul used a total of 7 bowlers in this match but despite this his team did not win.

Rajasthan Royals beat Lucknow Super Giants by 7 wickets

If we talk about the match, in this match captain KL Rahul scored 76 runs while playing a half-century innings. Apart from him, star batsman Deepak Hooda also played an inning of 50 runs. Due to the good innings of these two players, Lucknow had scored a huge score of 196 runs. However, these runs were not enough and Rajasthan achieved it in 19 overs at the loss of 3 wickets. For RR, captain Sanju Samson played an unbeaten inning of 71 runs, while Dhruv Jurel also scored 52 not out. With this they registered victory by 7 wickets.

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