New Delhi: Following the drubbing against Delhi Capitals in the Indian Premier League 2024 on Tuesday, Lucknow Super Giants skipper KL Rahul said that losing a lot of wickets in the powerplay was the "big reason why we are in this position" in the ongoing 17th edition of the cash-rich league.
A fine bowling spell by Ishant Sharma and an incredible death overs display by Delhi Capitals (DC) bowlers neutralised a brilliant fightback by Nicholas Pooran and Arshad Khan, leading the Capitals to a 19-run win over Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) at Arun Jaitley Stadium on Tuesday.
DC has jumped to the fifth spot, ending the season with seven wins, seven losses and 14 points while LSG dropped to seventh with six wins, seven losses and 12 points. The playoff chances of both teams are dependent on the remaining fixtures of other franchises.
The right-hand batter asserted that the wicket remained the same throughout the 40 overs.
"I feel the wicket remained the same throughout the 40 overs. When we got JFM out in the first over we should have capitalized, but they - Hope and Porel - showed a lot of intent. We did well at the back end and 200 was a par total, we should have chased it down.
This has been a problem right through the season - we keep losing a lot of wickets in the powerplay, we never get a solid start to get the likes of Stoinis and Pooran in, that is the big reason why we are in this position," Rahul said in the post-match presentation.
Coming to the match, put to bat first by LSG, Delhi Capitals reached a total of 208/4 in their 20 overs, with fine fifties coming from Stubbs (57* in 25 balls, with three fours and four sixes) and Abhishek Porel (58* in 33 balls, with five fours and four sixes).
Naveen-ul-Haq (2/51) was the top bowler for LSG.
In the run-chase, LSG was reduced to 44/4. However, half-centuries from Nicholas Pooran (61 in 27 balls, with six fours and four sixes) and Arshad Khan (58* in 33 balls, with three fours and five sixes) kept LSG alive till the end. However, the fine death overs display from DC reduced LSG to 189/9 in their 20 overs. Ishant Sharma (3/34) was the pick of the bowlers for DC.
Odisha (Bhubaneshwar) [India], May 15 (ANI): Indian athlete Tajinderpal Singh Toor defended his men's shot put title at the National Federation Senior Athletics Competition 2024 in Bhubaneswar, Odisha.
On Tuesday, the two-time Asian Games champion clinched the gold medal in men's shot put for the fourth year in a row after recording a season's best throw of 20.38m in his third attempt.
Tajinder holds the Asian and national record in men's shot put after he registered a throw of 21.77m at the Indian Championships in Bhubaneswar last year.
However, his attempt was recorded before the athletics qualification window for the upcoming Paris Olympics opened on July 1, 2023. He is yet to breach the Olympic shot put qualification standard of 21.50m.
Samardeep Singh Gill bagged the silver medal after recording a throw of 18.93m while Aryan Tyagi walked away with a bronze with his best effort of 18.07m.
Jeswin Aldrin, who is another national record holder, was in action in the men's long jump. He recorded a season's best jump of 7.99m but fell short of hitting the 8.0m mark once again this year.
Jeswin, who made the national record with an attempt of 8.42m at the Indian Open Jumps Competition in 2023, also failed to go past the qualifying standard of 8.27m for the Paris 2024 Olympics.
Arya S clinched second place with 7.83m. Muhammed Anees Yahiya, who became the National Games champion last year, secured the bronze medal with an attempt of 7.81m.
In the javelin throw event, Bibin Antony, Vikas Yadav and Vivek Kumar all breached the 70m mark in the men's javelin throw qualifiers and finished in the top three.
They will compete with Olympic champion Neeraj Chopra, Asian Games silver medallist Kishore Jena and seven others in the javelin throw final on Wednesday.
Rosy Meena Paulraj won the gold medal in the women's pole vault after she cleared 4.05m. She fell just short of the meet record of 4.06m held by Krishna Rachan, who achieved it in 2019.
Apart from Rosy, Baranica Elangovan was the only other athlete to touch the 4.00m mark. She bagged a silver medal, while Mariya Jaison clinched the bronze medal with an attempt of 3.90m.
In the absence of national record holder Avinash Sable, who is in the US currently, Sumit Kumar stood victorious in the men's 3000m steeplechase. He won the gold medal by clocking 8:39.67s.
Dhuladev Baban Ghagar clocked 8:46.65s to win the silver medal, while Ankit Rajesh fell just short with a timing of 8:46.97s and settled for bronze.