These days the 16th season of the IPL T20 League is being played. So far, 26 matches of IPL 2023 have been played. In the last match, Lucknow Supergiants won against Rajasthan Royals by 10 runs.
But Former England captain Kevin Pietersen is not happy with the performance of Lucknow Supergiants skipper KL Rahul in the ongoing IPL season. Rahul is not able to score fast runs in the powerplay. Pietersen criticized his slow batting in the first six overs. He even said that watching Rahul’s batting in powerplay is the most boring thing.
In the match against Rajasthan, Rahul struggled to score runs against a formidable attack led by pacer Trent Boult. Seeing this, Pietersen surprisingly attacked the Lucknow Super Giants captain. Pietersen was not impressed with Rahul’s shot selection and low strike rate. The IPL commentator explained to the audience how poor Rahul’s performance is in the powerplay.
The former England cricketer said, “Watching KL Rahul bat is the most boring thing ever.” This statement of Pietersen is discussed continuously after the match. There is some truth in his statement as well.
Rahul could not even open the account on the first six balls. In front of him, Trent Boult did not give a single run in the first over. Rahul could only score 19 runs in 19 balls in the powerplay. He scored 39 runs off 32 balls. During this, he hit four fours and a six.
Batting first after losing the toss, Lucknow scored 154 runs losing seven wickets in 20 overs. Kyle Mayers played an inning of 51 runs in 42 balls. Apart from him, captain KL Rahul scored 39 runs. In response, at one time, Rajasthan’s team had scored 87 runs after losing one wicket. However, after this, wickets kept falling at regular intervals, and the team could manage only 144 runs in 20 overs, losing six wickets.
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Yashasvi Jaiswal scored the highest 44 runs. At the same time, Jos Buttler played an inning of 40 runs. Avesh Khan took two wickets in the last over. He took the wicket of Devdutt Padikkal on the third ball of the over and Dhruv Jurel on the fourth ball. Earlier, he also took the wicket of Shimron Hetmyer. Avesh took three wickets in total.
