Suryakumar Yadav, a batter for the Mumbai Indians (MI), says that he “lives by the sword” and will “die by the sword.” MI lost to Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) by five runs at the Ekana Stadium in Lucknow on Tuesday. The World No. 1 T20I hitter was out for just 7 runs. This was one of the strangest outs in IPL 2023.
‘SKY’ tried his favorite scoop shot against LSG pacer Yash Thakur in the 15th over of the game, but instead of getting a boundary, he was out. After moving outside his off-stump to try a sweep shot, Suryakumar could only drag the ball back to his off and center stumps.
Suryakumar has scored 486 runs for MI so far in IPL 2023. He has done this in 13 games, scoring 1 hundred and 4 fifties. He is in fifth place in the IPL 2023 Orange Cap race right now.
Rohit Sharma, captain of the Mumbai Indians (MI), said that his team lost its way in the second half of the run chase and didn’t win the small moments that meant the most.
At the Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Cricket Stadium in Lucknow on Tuesday, Marcus Stoinis’s unbeaten knock of 89 not out (47 balls) and the bowlers’ economical spells helped LSG beat MI.
“We didn’t play well enough to win the game. We almost won a few small parts of the game, but we didn’t. We did a great job of figuring out what the pitch was like, and it was a good place to bat. The score was definitely reachable, but we got lost in the second half of the games. Rohit Sharma said after the game, “We gave up too many runs at the end, and the last three overs went for a few.”
“But the way we started with the bat put us in a good position to chase, but as I said, we got lost in the second half.” Marcus Stoinis played very well and kept hitting straight, which is what you need to do on a pitch like this. He hit the ball really well. I don’t know how the points and net run rate will be calculated, but we need to play good cricket in our last game (against SRH),” the MI captain said.
