Sunrisers Hyderabad went to IPL 2023 Auction with the biggest purse, bought some of the most talented batsmen too, but are yet to win a game in the season. SRH’s batting department flopped completely in the matches they have played till now. In their last match against LSG, SRH completely surrendered in front of LSG’s bowling attack as the entire team got restricted to just 121 runs. Lucknow chased down the total rather comfortably and wrapped the contest with four overs to spare.
Former India spinner Harbhajan Singh, while analyzing the match on his YouTube channel, made a bold statement, saying that the unit doesn’t have the firepower to put up even 170 on the board.
“I don’t think SRH has a batting unit that can put up a score of 170-190. If Markram doesn’t score, the task becomes more difficult. Tripathi is a skilful player and there is no doubt about it but he hasn’t done anything significant with the bat so far this season. Maybe he might score in the season further.” said Harbhajan.
Harbhajan also lauded KL Rahul’s captaincy but also labelled the match as “boring” at the same time.
“It was a great captaincy by Rahul. There wasn’t any need to play any big shots in the chase. He played an innings of 35 runs and Krunal played one of 34 runs. It was an easy 2 points for Lucknow. The match was very boring and there was no fun, there wasn’t enough score, the wicket was very slow and forced SRH to surrender while batting,” he said.