Abdul Samad came up with a great cameo on Tuesday (April 1) to supply Lucknow’s Super Giants to a competitive total in a continuing game against the Punjab Kings at Ekana Cricket Stadium in Lucknow.
Asked to hit first, LSG had a miserable start as he lost three wickets in the power play and found himself upset at 35/3. Mitchell Marsh, Aiden Markram and Rishab Pants returned to the pavilion within the first five overs of the match.
Badoni, Foran and Samad will make LSG 171 runs
Ayush Badoni and Nicholas Pooran then stabilized the ship, and when the latter entered his ditch he was dismissed by Yuzvendra Chahal. After scoring 44 runs and sharing a 54-run stand with Badoni for the fourth wicket, Forlan set out.
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Veteran batsman David Miller got off to a similar start, but he couldn’t take advantage of it as he left for 19 runs. Badoni was well set, but he had a hard time playing big shots.
Abdul Samad plays an outrageous shot:
LSG was caught up in 119/5 on the 16th when Abdul Samad joined Baduni in the middle. Even the 150-run mark looked harsh at that stage before the right-handed batsman gave the much needed propulsion by hitting a boundary gust of wind into the LSG innings.
On the first ball he faced in the match, Abdul Samad hit Marco Janse with six. On the 18th he took Arshdeep Singh to the cleaner and hit two fours and six runs to race from just seven balls to 23 runs. The Jammu and Kashmir stars eventually came out on 27 runs from 12 balls.
Thanks to his knock, LSG was able to post a competitive total of 171/7 in 20 overs. During his brief stay at the crease, the former Sunrise Hyderabad batsman played outrageous shots to hit Arshdeep with the four of them.
On the fourth ball in the 18th, the Indian Pacer bowled a low full toss outside the stump, and Samad was able to scooped it over the wicketkeeper for four runs.
See shots from Abdul Samad:
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