PBKS vs LSG: 'It Seems Low-risk Batting But He Scores Big Runs, Ends With Strike Rate Of 140. It's Freakish': Shane Watson Hails LSG Star
Published - 29 Apr 2022, 01:36 PM | Updated - 23 Aug 2024, 01:08 AM
The Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) will get back to action on Friday night when the side go up against the Punjab Kings in their 10th match of the 2022 Indian Premier League. The Super Giants are presently fourth in the league table with 10 points and will expect to cement their situation in the best 4 when they face the conflicting PBKS side at the MCA Stadium in Pune.
Quite possibly the most reliable performers for the Super Giant have been their skipper KL Rahul, who has scored two centuries in the season up until this point. Rahul stayed unbeaten on 103 in the side’s last game against the Mumbai Indians and his thump demonstrated the key to LSG’s 36-run prevail over Rohit Sharma’s team.
Shane Watson Is An Admirer Of LSG Captain KL Rahul
The magical Indian player has now observed an admirer in Shane Watson, the former Australian all-rounder who is presently the assistant coach of Delhi Capitals.
“Lucknow Super Giants have been playing really well. KL Rahul got another hundred. He’s incredibly good. He’s so consistent. For a top-order batsman to be as consistent as he has been.. I think he has lasted four or five years right at the top,” Watson said in The Grade Cricketer podcast.
“It is really difficult in T20 cricket to be so consistent. He’s got such a great recipe for what he does. It seems really low-risk batting but he is scoring big runs, at a strike rate of 140, which is just freakish. It’s freakish that he has that ability, which he has developed for this long period of time,” Watson further said.
With 368 runs, Rahul is the second-highest run-getter up until this point this season, simply behind Rajasthan Royals’ Jos Buttler, and has been the batting pillar for his side. LSG’s next rivals Punjab Kings have dominated four matches and have lost as many, as they are set at the 6th spot in the IPL 2022 points table.
