Gujarat Titans captain Hardik Pandya and Lucknow Super Giants Krunal Pandya exchanged their jerseys after the end of their team's matches in IPL 2023 on Saturday. The two teams met at the Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Cricket Stadium, Lucknow.
Post a thrilling encounter Hardik wore Super Giants’ jersey and Krunal donned his brother’s Titans’ colours. Hardik also shared a video on his social media Instagram handle. "Only love my brother," he wrote along with the video.
Here is the video:
Talking about the match, it was a superb game of cricket between the two teams. While LSG dominated the majority of the game and at one stage had seemingly knocked on the doors of a win with 39 required off 45 balls with 9 wickets in hand, GT found a way to come back into the match out of nowhere.
GT bowlers did not concede a single boundary in the last 7 overs and dried up the runs to exert pressure. In the end the equation was down to 17 from 12 balls and even then LSG looked favourites with 7 wickets in hand especially with a set KL Rahul out in the middle.
However, a superb penultimate over from Mohammed Shami meant GT fancied their chances in the final over. Shami used all his experience and gave away just 5 runs, leaving Mohit Sharma 11 runs to defend off the final six deliveries.
In the final over, IPL's comeback man Mohit Sharma scalped 2 wickets while 2 other batters got run out as LSG could only add 4 runs to finish their innings at 128/7, to lose the match by 7 runs.
LSG captain KL Rahul started off by playing a maiden over, ended powerplay at 30* off 19 and eventually departed for 68 off 61. He struggled to make sense of how his team lost from a winning position.
"I don't know how it has happened. It happened too fast. I can't put a finger on where we let the game slip, which was in our pocket," he said after the match.