Gujarat Titans (GT) defeated Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) within the 57th match of the Indian Premier League, 2022 at the Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium in Pune on Tuesday, May 10.
Really, really proud of the boys – Hardik Pandya
“Really, really proud of the boys. It is a great effort to qualify before the 14th game in this league.”
Hardik Pandya added that they took the learnings from their previous game against Mumbai Indians, where they lost in the last over. He explained:
“To be honest, in the last game, we kind of thought that the game was over before it was over. We were always under pressure in all the other games that we won, and we felt that we’d finish off the last game with the kind of batting we had. That was learning we took.”
Hardik Pandya added that they just wanted to be ruthless against Lucknow Super Giants and he also said that he rates Sai Kishore very high as a spinner. He asserted:
“We just wanted to be ruthless today, and relax post-game. I rate Sai Kishore quite high as a left-arm spinner. Because of the kind of fast bowlers we had, it wasn’t possible to play him and Jayant Yadav.”
He elaborated:
“Lucknow were a bit short in their lengths, and fuller lengths were working. Our bowlers did everything that we asked of them, and we ticked all boxes today. I always feel that if you lose a game like the one we lost in our last game, we win and lose games as a team.”
“Yes, we did not do what we wanted to do. We messed it up, but we messed it up as a team. Everyone stood by each other, and we had a get-together post-game and made sure the vibe was always there. We were still on the second spot and that meant we were doing something right.”
