Lucknow Super Giants’ (LSG) marketing campaign within the ongoing Indian Premier League (IPL) 2022 got here to an finish following the 14-run defeat by the hands of Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) within the Eliminator at Eden Gardens in Kolkata on Wednesday (May 25).
Chasing the daunting goal of 208, the KL Rahul-led Lucknow solely managed to succeed in 193/6 and fell wanting 14 runs to go additional within the fifteenth season of the cash-rich league. Following LSG’s exit from IPL 2022, their mentor Gautam Gambhir took to his official Instagram deal with and shared a heartfelt submit.
Gambhir, who has led the Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) to the IPL title twice, stated they’d an important match and can come again stronger within the subsequent season.
“Hard luck today but a great tournament for our news team. We’ll come back stronger… Until we meet again!” Gambhir wrote in an Instagram submit that had an image of him watching an LSG internet session.
Right after the loss, LSG skipper Rahul had talked about that their fielding unit and RCB’s Rajat Patidar have been the principle cause behind the defeat. Notably, the Super Giants have been sloppy on the sector, together with the skipper himself, who had dropped the catch of Dinesh Karthik. Patidar was additionally dropped twice earlier than he went on to smash a triple-figure rating.
“I think it’s quite obvious – the reasons why we didn’t win. We let ourselves down in the field. Dropping easy catches never helps. Difference was obviously Patidar playing such a knock. When someone in the top three scores a hundred, more often, the team wins. They fielded really well, and we were poor,” Rahul had stated in the course of the post-match presentation.