Lucknow Supergiants beat Royal Challengers Bangalore by one wicket in the IPL at the Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru on Monday. The excitement of the match remained till the last ball. Chasing the target of 213 runs, the Lucknow team achieved the target by losing 9 wickets on the last ball of the 20th over. In this match, Lucknow captain KL Rahul scored 18 runs in 20 balls. After the match, KL Rahul defended his slow innings and said that he did the right thing. Because many times he loses his wicket in the run-up. He said that if I score more runs then the strike rate will go up.

middle order win tough games
Rahul further said that if you look at the middle order then number 5, 6, 7 players win us difficult games. The top order piles up the runs, but the middle order is the position that counts. That is why we have invested in Pooran, Stoinis and Badoni in Power. And Badoni is now learning to finish the game. We could win the match only because of Puran’s innings.

Nicolas Pooran scored two and a half times more strike rate than Rahul
On one hand where Rahul scored at a slow pace. His strike rate was 90. While wicketkeeper Nicklaus Pooran, who came to bat at number six, scored two and a half times more strike rate i.e. 326.31 than him. Puran scored the fastest fifty of the season in 15 balls. He scored 62 runs in 19 balls. There came to bat at number five. Marcus Stoinis played an inning of 65 runs in 30 balls. His strike rate was 216.66. Badoni scored 30 runs in 24 balls at a strike rate of 125.

Rahul has been criticized for his low strike rate
KL Rahul has been criticized for scoring runs at a low strike rate. Questions were raised about his slow strike rate when he was included in the squad for the T20 World Cup last year. Scored 2265 runs at a strike rate of 139.12 in 72 T20 Internationals played so far. At the same time, in the T20 World Cup last year, he scored 128 runs at a strike rate of 120.75.