That's it for today. Lucknow Giants will be pretty satisfied with their effort today and Sunrisers are still searching for their winning combination for this year. They will try to fix their batting order issues and do a couple of changes at the top too. Do join us tomorrow for the 'The Battle Royale' - RR vs RCB. Until then, this is Shubham signing off along with my co-commentators, Anirudh and Akshaya, our scorer Paras, and our statistician, Shreyas. Goodnight and take care!
Avesh Khan | Player of the Match: "The plan always was how I can pick up more wickets in the power play and in the slog overs. I wanted to bowl the slower ball (Williamson dismissal) because we felt that the ball was gripping and holding on to the surface. The plan is always to bowl dots and hit those yorker lengths. I always get a lot of support from the captain and support staff and want to bowl with the same rhythm."
KL Rahul | LSG Captain: "It's been pleasing that we have always found a way to stay in the game in the last 3 games. Not ideal to lose 3 wickets in the first 4 overs but that's something we will work on. We do have big hitters at the death but to give us a little time because the wickets are really fresh in these stadiums and that's something we need to learn as a batting unit. We need to learn how to play risk free cricket and still play our shots. Don't think we chatted so much in the middle, as opening batters we don't really plan too much. We give ourselves a couple of deliveries and if the wicket is good, the plan is to put pressure on the opposition and for both of us to go because we have that extra batter in Jason. But we need to be smart, if we lose a couple of wickets, we need to asses that quickly and which batter is feeling how are all factors to be kept in mind. Yeah, of course this is the best Deepak Hooda has batted, playing with him for the past 3-4 seasons, he loves batting in the nets and he is someone who is keen to his learn. He had to wait his chance in the IPL and he is using it this season, soaking up the pressure early and then exploding. Hopefully he can keep this up and continue the good form."
KL Rahul wins the RuPay on-the-go 4s of the match award.
Umran Malik wins the Swiggy Instamart fastest delivery of the match for his 152.2 KPH delivery!
Deepak Hooda is the Upstox most valuable asset of the match.
Washington Sundar is the CRED Power Player of the match.
Deepak Hooda wins the Unacademy Cracking Sixes award.