Aakash Chopra reckons the Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) are dependent on KL Rahul in the Bharatiya batting department. The LSG skipper is the franchise’s highest run-scorer in IPL 2024 with 431 runs at a strike rate of 141.31 in 11 innings.
LSG will face the SunRisers Hyderabad (SRH) in a significant game in Hyderabad on Wednesday. The winning team will reach third position with both sides on 12 points from 11 games on the points table and bolster their chances of qualifying for the playoffs.
Chopra selected Rahul as the first Lucknow Super Giants player in focus in Wednesday’s game. He reasoned, ‘The first is like a broken record. You can write KL Rahul’s name there because everything depends on him. Please score runs because no other Bharatiya player has scored too many runs and doesn’t seem like scoring as well. So KL Rahul will be expected to score runs’.
The former Bharatiya player opener chose Nicholas Pooran as another crucial player for the franchise. With 315 runs at a strike rate of 159.09 in 11 innings, Pooran is LSG’s third-highest run-getter in IPL 2024. The destructive left-handed batter, who has aggregated only 35 runs in his last three innings, will want to play a substantial knock against the SunRisers Hyderabad.
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