So, that’s it from this encounter. The Krunal Pandya-led Lucknow Super Giants have stunned the Orange Army and they climbed to the 4th position in the points table with 13 points. You can switch tabs to enjoy the contest between Delhi Capitals and Punjab Kings. For now, this is Megh Mandaliya, signing off on behalf of my co-commentators Ayan Chatterjee and Ninaad Dixit alongside our scorer/analyst Paras Yadav. Cheers!
Prerak Mankad(Player of the Match): "Actually it was an important game for us. Score does not matter to me and need to make a winning contribution. That time I wasn't timing it well. But we got the result in the end. I knew Mayank tried to get me out but I counterattacked and got the job done. I am thankful to the management for giving the opportunity to play here and I did that. Just backing my ability and stability to go out there. I was set and shouldn't affect me at the other end. Stoinis gave me good advice and I got the job done in the end. I am happy with the win and the team won and we are back in the competition. Happy to win."
KrunalPandya(LucknowSuper Giants Captain): "I guess the way they were going, I thought they might go past 200. But we pulled it back really well. The character shown by Yash and Avesh at the backend was fantastic. Again we had to bat first, but I would have taken 175. On this level, anything is possible. The biggest thing we want as a team was belief and we had that. Pooran can do special things. The self-belief and confidence he has is tremendous.
We knew that we had to go after the bowlers and that's what we talked about during the strategic break. Luckily, Abhishek bowled that over and went for five maximums. That changed the momentum. 100 percent, Prerak Mankad was playing a game after a long time. He was hungry and wanted to do well. Happy for him and he will also feel he belongs to this level after scoring those runs."