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    4/8/24, 11:49 AM IPL 2024 - How Lucknow Super Giants mastered the art of defending totals | ESPNcricinfo

    LSG, whose reliance on spin at their home ground is an ongoing tribute to Dhoni's CSK sides, have
    tended to be very good at getting to the par-plus total. Out of the 18 times they've batted first in the
    IPL, they've only crossed 200 twice, but they've only ended up with less than 150 on one occasion - in a
    rained-out game.

    Often, LSG's totals have been built on an old-fashioned and increasingly polarising approach, with
    Rahul setting the tone as their polariser-in-chief: he's their leading bat-first run-getter with 626 at an
    average of 52.16 and a strike rate of 139.42. He played another old-fashioned innings on Sunday, a 31-
    ball 33 that helped stabilise LSG after they had lost two early wickets, with Marcus Stoinis going only
    slightly harder while scoring 58 off 43.

    Is it the ideal approach to batting first in T20? Probably not, but if you have a bowling attack designed
    to defend par-plus totals - as LSG do, and Royal Challengers Bengaluru (for whom Virat Kohli often
    plays a similar, and similarly polarising role) do not, particularly in their home conditions - it has its
    merits, especially in a tournament where you can be the fourth-best team and get into the playoffs.

    Krunal Pandya has been a key contributor with the ball for LSG • BCCI

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    In their first season, LSG often stacked their line-up with allrounders - they had Jason Holder, Marcus
    Stoinis, Krunal Pandya and K Gowtham in this game against Rajasthan Royals, for example - and while
    it sometimes left them with too flexible a batting order, with their middle-order batters never really
    settling into defined roles, it made their bowling extremely versatile. Given their plethora of options,
    they could, for example, easily hide the left-arm spin of Krunal if two left-handers were at the crease.

    The introduction of the Impact Player in IPL 2023 reduced the value of having so many allrounders, but

    it has helped LSG's quest toMatches

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    of bowling options. Videos

    It has, for instance, allowed

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