Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Lucknow Super Giants, 57th Match Report: The 57th match of IPL 2024 was played between Sunrisers Hyderabad and Lucknow Super Giants. The toss held before the match was won by the visiting team captain KL Rahul and due to the excellent partnership of Nicholas Puran and Ayush Badoni, Lucknow has set a challenging target of 166 runs in front of Hyderabad. But the opening batsmen of the host team made history by achieving this target in the 10th over itself.

Super Giants scored only 27 runs at the loss of 2 wickets in 6 overs of powerplay. Opener Quinton de Kock was out early after scoring 2 runs and Marcus Stoinis was out after scoring 3 runs. Bhuvneshwar Kumar showed both these batsmen the way to the pavilion. Captain Rahul played a slow innings in the middle order, scoring only 29 runs in 33 balls. Rahul's important wicket was taken by Pat Cummins. After this, Krunal Pandya, who was batting on 24 runs, was run out. At one time Lucknow lost 4 wickets for 66 runs and Ayush Badoni and Nicholas Puran made a half-century partnership for the 5th wicket.

Nicholas Pooran scored 48 runs on 26 balls, which included 6 fours and 1 six, while Ayush Badoni played an important inning of 55 runs. Badoni hit 9 fours in his innings. There was a tremendous partnership of 99 runs between the two batsmen. Bhuvneshwar Kumar took maximum 2 wickets for Sunrisers Hyderabad.

Chasing the target of 166 runs, Travis Head and Abhishek Sharma batted in a stormy manner. Both the batsmen scored 107 runs in the first 6 overs of the powerplay while the target was achieved in 9.4 overs. Abhishek Sharma scored 75 runs in 28 balls which included 8 fours and 6 sixes. At the other end, Travis Head scored 89 runs in 30 balls. Head hit 8 fours and 8 sixes during his innings. All the bowlers of Lucknow proved to be ineffective in front of Head and Abhishek.