LSG Knocked Out Of IPL 2025 Playoffs Race, One Over Ruined Everything!

Abhishek Sharma's quick innings of 59 runs in 20 balls followed by useful contributions from Heinrich Klaasen (47 off 28 balls), Kamindu Mendis (retired hurt on 32 off 21 balls) and Ishan Kishan (35 off 28 balls) helped Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) beat Lucknow Supergiants (LSG) by six wickets in an Indian Premier League (IPL) T20 match here on Monday.

Abhishek Sharma's stormy innings and useful contribution from Heinrich Klaasen helped Sunrisers Hyderabad beat Lucknow Supergiants by six wickets, knocking Lucknow out of the playoff race.

LSG knocked out of IPL 2025 playoffs race

With this defeat, LSG's team was knocked out of the playoff race. This is LSG's seventh defeat in 12 matches and the team is at the seventh position in the table with 10 points. LSG scored a big score of 205 runs for seven wickets after being invited to bat first.

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One over became the turning point of the match

But SRH achieved the target for four wickets in 18.2 overs. This is the first time on this ground that the team chasing the target scored more than 200 runs and won. Let us tell you about the turning point of the match where the match completely slipped out of Lucknow's hands.

26 runs were scored in 1 over of Ravi Bishnoi

Actually, leg spinner Ravi Bishnoi came to bowl the seventh over of Sunrisers Hyderabad's innings from Lucknow Super Giants. The first ball of his over was wide. After this, Ishan Kishan, who was on strike, played a dot ball and took a single on the second ball of the over and rotated the strike. Now Abhishek Sharma was on strike, who hit four sixes on four consecutive balls.

He completed his fifty in 18 balls with the third six in the over. Ravi Bishnoi conceded a total of 26 runs in this one over. From here the game was completely in Hyderabad's hands.

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