IPL 2023: Hyderabad need to improve their batting: Anil Kumble

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Lucknow. Lucknow Super Giants registered their second win in three matches as they defeated Sunrisers Hyderabad by five wickets at the Ekana Stadium in Lucknow.

Batting first, Sunrisers could only manage 121/8 in 20 overs. The spinners of the Super Giants put the brakes on Hyderabad, taking six of their eight wickets. Krunal Pandya took three wickets and Amit Mishra took two wickets.

Captain KL Rahul scored the highest 35 runs while Krunal Pandya contributed 34 runs. Krunal received the player of the match award for his all-round performance.

Former Indian cricketer Anil Kumble said that Sunrisers’ batting let him down and he was also unimpressed with the use of Adil Rashid.

Kumble told Geo Cinema, “It is not a good start. I have them in my top 4. They are a good team and they have a good batting line-up. But they have not been able to get going. Their batting in both the matches They have let them down. Even at their home ground against Rajasthan Royals, they could not score much runs.

He said, “Playing against Rajasthan, they could not bring Rashid early against Jos Buttler, who does not like to play leg-spinners at the beginning of his innings. Here also Rashid was held back for the first six overs. You have only 121 runs on the board so use the lead spinner. He needs to work on a few things but first he needs to sort out his batting problem.”(IANS)

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