LSG Knocked Out Of IPL 2025 Playoffs Race After Big Defeat To SRH

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Last Updated:May 20, 2025, 00:24 IST

Lucknow Super Giants were eliminated from the IPL 2025 playoffs aft losing to Sunrisers Hyderabad. With 10 points from 12 matches, LSG can't surpass 14 points.

Rishabh Pant's LSG person been knocked retired of IPL 2025 playoff race. (Picture Credit: Sportzpics)

Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) became the 5th squad to get knocked retired of the IPL 2025 playoffs contention aft their 6-wicket decision to Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) connected Monday (May 19) astatine their home, the Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Cricket Stadium successful Lucknow.

With conscionable 10 points aft 12 matches, they tin present lone scope a maximum of 14 points this season, which won’t beryllium capable to get them to the last spot remaining — fourth. Mumbai Indians are connected 14 points too, and Delhi Capitals are connected 13 points, but they person 1 lucifer to play against each different — which means astatine slightest 1 of them volition spell past 14 points irrespective of the effect (including a washout).

The champion LSG tin finish, then, is fifth. It’s present connected DC and MI to combat it retired for the last spot available.

In the archetypal innings, openers Mitchell Marsh (65 disconnected 39) and Aiden Markram (61 disconnected 38) struck high-quality fifties but regular wickets from SRH’s bowlers stemmed the travel of runs to bounds LSG to 205/7. Abhishek Sharma smashed fractional a twelve sixes successful his 20-ball 59 to set-up the change. And though Digvesh Rathi took 2 wickets, Heinrich Klaasen (47 disconnected 28) and Kamindu Mendis (32 disconnected 21) saw disconnected the chase.

“Definitely it could person been 1 of our champion seasons but coming into the tournament, we had a batch of gaps, injuries and arsenic a squad we decided to not speech astir that, but it became hard to capable those gaps for us," skipper Rishabh Pant said successful the post-match presentation. “The mode we planned the auction, if we had had the aforesaid bowling. But this is cricket, sometimes things spell your mode and sometimes they don’t, we instrumentality pridefulness successful the mode we played and instrumentality the positives from the play than the antagonistic side. We person a beardown batting enactment up, person capable firepower and that is the biggest affirmative for the season, adjacent for bowlers, a batch of times they bowled successful bully areas but they were patchy."

LSG person 2 matches remaining this play — against Gujarat Titans and Royal Challengers Bengaluru, some teams that person qualified for the playoffs.

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