🏏IPL 2023: Match 10 - LSG vs SRH on 07/04/23 at 7:30 PM IST 🏏

🏏IPL 2023: Match 10 - LSG vs SRH at Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Cricket Stadium, Lucknow on 07/04/23 at 7:30 PM IST 🏏

Tag and Logo credit goes to Sandy aka Sevenstreaks

Markram arrives as Sunrisers look to bounce back from opening defeat

Quinton de Kock has also linked up with Super Giants but who will make way for him?

Kyle Mayers was part of Lucknow Super Giants' squad in IPL 2022 but didn't get a game. Had Quinton de Kock not been on national duty, Mayers wouldn't have started this season either. But now he has two swashbuckling half-centuries in two games to give Super Giants a happy headache.

With de Kock available and having smashed a 44-ball 100 against West Indies recently, do Super Giants drop Mayers? That will be sacrilegious. If they play both, who sacrifices the opening slot? Plus, who misses out in that case - Nicholas Pooran or Marcus Stoinis? Pooran made useful contributions in both games, while Stoinis gives them an extra bowling option, even though he is yet to bowl this IPL.

After starting their campaign with a win at home, Super Giants went down to Chennai Super Kings in their next match. Now that they are back in Lucknow, can they return to winning ways?

Sunrisers Hyderabad too are coming off a defeat; they were thrashed by Rajasthan Royals in their opening game. But there are plenty of reasons for Sunrisers to put that hammering behind them, the biggest being the availability of their South African players.

Kyle Mayers had one shot, and he didn't let it slip

For the Royals game, they were without their captain Aiden Markram, Heinrich Klaasen and Marco Jansen. Now that the trio has joined the squad, they have all eight overseas players to pick from. And like de Kock, all three carry excellent form with them.

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It's difficult to decide which team I dislike more🤣

Lucknow Super Giants vs Sunrisers Hyderabad Pitch Report

The pitch at Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Cricket Stadium is a balanced track. The new ball bowlers may get some lateral movement off the surface and the batters will have to be patient early in their innings. There is equal assistance to the spinners at this venue.

Teams batting first have fared slightly better at this venue, with 17 wins and 14 defeats from 31 T20s. When it comes to bowling, spinners (6.49) have been more frugal than fast bowlers (7.87).

Lucknow Super Giants vs Sunrisers Hyderabad Weather Forecast

The temperature in Lucknow is expected to hover between 20 to 36 degrees Celsius.

Team Watch

Lucknow Supr Giants:

Quinton De Kock has returned to the side, and that should mean either Marcus Stoinis or Kyle Mayers will have to make way.

Tactics & Matchups: LSG have used Deepak Hooda and Krunal Pandya at No 3 and 4 respectively to attack the spinners in the middle overs, and left the late hitting against pacers to Marcus Stoinis and Nicholas Pooran. Even though that specific tactic hasn't worked out for them as well as they would've liked, they may persist with it - especially given Hooda's success against Umran Malik in the middle overs. On the bowling front, Krunal Pandya has been fairly successful against Rahul Tripathi, dismissing the batter thrice in 22 deliveries, and conceding only 26 runs.

Probable XI: KL Rahul, Quinton de Kock, Deepak Hooda, Krunal Pandya, Marcus Stoinis/Kyle Mayers, Nicholas Pooran, Ayush Badoni, Ravi Bishnoi, Mark Wood, Jaydev Unadkat/Yash Thakur, Avesh Khan.

The Impact Substitute swap could be between K Gowtham and Ayush Badoni yet again, depending on whether LSG will chase or bat first.

Sunrisers Hyderabad: Aiden Markram, Heinrich Kaasen and Marco Jansen will be available for the match and at least two of them should slot in directly in the XI.

Tactics & Matchups: T Natarajan has kept KL Rahul on a leash, conceding only 11 runs in 17 balls, while Bhuvneshwar Kumar has strangled both Rahul and de Kock, with the duo scoring at a rate of only 116 and 94 against the pacer.

Probable XI: Abhishek Sharma, Mayank Agarwal, Rahul Tripathi, Aiden Markram, Harry Brook, Glenn Phillips, Marco Jansen/Adil Rashid, Washington Sundar, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Umran Malik, T Natarajan

Abdul Samad could come in for T Natarajan when SRH bat.

What they said:

"Even though we lost the last game against CSK, there was a lot to learn from it. Despite the loss, we scored close to 200 runs, so it hasn't affected the team (negatively)." - Deepak Hooda, LSG all-rounder

"As players, you always want to train and get better and improve as a team. But there also comes a time when you probably just need the mental break and freedom to go into the next game. It's not always about fixing it out in the nets. Finding that balance will be important as a team. Everyone in the team has played enough cricket to know what they need to get themselves up for the next game after a loss. We will give the players that freedom to do what they want to, trust what their gut is telling them." - Aiden Markram, SRH captain

This content was originally posted by: la_Reine

It's difficult to decide which team I dislike more🤣

Answer is both

Thanks for the tag Raji

I am supporting LSG 

Disclaimer:  This is just a prediction/guess. 

Don't shoot the messenger.

Stats that matter

• Since the start of the last IPL, Super Giants have won eight out of nine games when batting first. But when it comes to chasing, they have won only two out of eight.
• Mayers' strike rate against pace is 149.54. But against spin, it drops down to 103.15.
• Pooran has a great strike rate against both pace and spin, but Adil Rashid has been able to keep him quiet. In 36 balls to Pooran, he has conceded just 31 runs while getting him out twice.
• Since the start of 2022, Mark Wood has picked up a wicket every eighth ball.

This content was originally posted by: Deltablues

Answer is both

But ek to predict karna hi parega🤣