Lucknow Tremendous Giants (LSG) suffered a morale-sapping eight-wicket defeat in opposition to Punjab Kings in IPL 2025 on the Ekana Cricket Stadium right here on Tuesday.
Talking on the post-match press convention, LSG mentor Zaheer Khan expressed his dissatisfaction with the pitch laid out for his aspect’s first dwelling sport of the season.
“What was a bit of disappointing for me right here was it’s a house sport, and in IPL you’ve seen how groups have checked out taking a bit of little bit of dwelling benefit. So from that perspective, you’ve seen the curator isn’t actually considering that it’s a house sport. I feel perhaps it seemed prefer it was Punjab’s curator out right here (laughs). In order that’s one thing which we’ll determine,” mentioned Zaheer.
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The Kings had the higher hand over LSG all through the competition performed on a red-soil floor. The house workforce misplaced three wickets within the PowerPlay after being inserted and will by no means break freed from the opposition’s grasp.
LSG’s lack of influence continued with the ball, because the Kings rode on fifties from Prabhsimran Singh and Shreyas Iyer to chalk off a straightforward innings.
Zaheer is hopeful that LSG is not going to be denied its dwelling benefit. “It’s a brand new setup for me. However I hope that that is the primary and the final sport in terms of that since you are disappointing the Lucknow followers as effectively. They’ve give you so many expectations of profitable the primary dwelling sport right here.”
The previous Indian pacer additionally emphasised that his workforce will attempt to step it up in the remainder of the house leg and meet the Lucknow followers’ hopes.
“As a workforce, we’re assured. We settle for that we’ve misplaced the sport, and we’ll do no matter it takes to make that influence within the dwelling leg. We nonetheless have six extra video games to go right here, and this workforce has proven up to now that now we have the best outlook and mindset for the IPL,” added Zaheer.