IPL PHOTOS: Avesh powers Lucknow to victory vs SRH

Images from the IPL 2022 match between Sunrisers Hyderabad and Lucknow Super Giants at the DY Patil Stadium in Navi Mumbai on Monday.

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Avesh Khan excelled with the ball to lift Lucknow Super Giants to a thrilling 12-run victory against Sunrisers Hyderabad in their IPL 2022 match at the DY Patil stadium in Navi Mumbai on Monday.

Avesh -- the most expensive uncapped player in the history of IPL at Rs. 10 crore, bowled a fine spell in the death overs to finish with a career-best 4/24 as Sunrisers Hyderabad finished on 157/9 in their 20 overs after they were set 170 for victory.

Avesh bowled a brilliant 18th over as he picked up the crucial wicket of dangerman Nicholas Pooran and Abdul Samad off successive deliveries to turn the match in Lucknow's favour.

Put into bat, skipper KL Rahul and Deepak Hooda struck useful half-centuries to rally Lucknow Super Giants to 169 for seven after a disastrous start.

In their run chase, SRH captain Kane Williamson's innovation brought him two fours and a six but he paid the price for going overboard, before his mistimed ramp shot off Avesh was taken by Andrew Tye at short fine leg in the fourth over.

The pacer then deceived Abhishek Sharma with the change of pace to send back both the SRH openers in the Powerplay.

Rahul Tripathi got the SRH innings back on track in the middle overs with a quickfire 44 from 30 balls before Krunal Pandya's double strike put Lucknow firmly in control.

Aiden Markram was caught by KL Rahul for 12, while Tripathi was caught at deep midwicket hitting the slog sweep straight into the hands of Ravi Bishnoi.

Andrew Tye kept it fairly tight in the 17th over, conceding just eight runs, before Pooran revived SRH as he hit Avaesh over deep square leg for a six. However, Avesh had the last laugh with the wicket of Pooran.

Washington Sundar was not able to provide the final flourish as he fell for 14 from 18 balls to Jason Holder, who took three wickets in the final over.

Earlier, Lucknow Super Giants bounced back after a few early wickets to post 169/7.

After his team lost three wickets for just 27 runs in the powerplay, Rahul (68 off 50 balls) found an able ally in Deepak Hooda (51 off 33 balls) as they added 87 runs for the fourth wicket to revive the LSG innings.

Rahul hit six fours and a six, while Hooda found the fence three times and also cleared it thrice.

Coming back from a long break after playing their opener last Tuesday, SRH made a dream start and left the Super Giants in all sorts of trouble early on.

Making a strong comeback after the heavy defeat against Rajasthan Royals in their opening match, off-spinner Washington Sundar (2/28) was handed the new ball and he delivered in his very first over, and SRH's second, dismissing the dangerous Quinton de Kock with his off-break bowling on a grassy pitch that prompted Kane Williamson to put two slips when Bhuvneshwar Kumar started the proceedings.

Backed to bowl in the Powerplay despite going for plenty in the previous game, Washington got de Kock (1) to chip one to Williamson at cover.

Moments later, Washington had Evin Lewis (1) trapped in front of the wicket after the swashbuckling West Indian batter failed to execute his slog sweep. It was another huge wicket for SRH given Lewis' blazing, match-winning against Chennai Super Kings last Thursday.

Manish Pandey struck Romario Shepherd for a four and a six before he lobbed a catch to mid-on in the same over to leave LSG in a spot of bother.

Spurred by the early success, Williamson effected bowling changes frequently but he may have delayed by at least an over in introducing the attacking Thangarasu Natarajan while opting for Abdul Samad's innocuous, part-time seam up stuff at the DY Patil Stadium.

The pacy Umran Malik consistently hit 145 kmps but also leaked plenty of runs, allowing KL Rahul and Deepak Hooda to settle down and revive LSG's innings.

Having withstood the early reverses, the duo of Rahul and Hooda went about their task in a professional manner, finding the boundaries as well as running the singles and twos as the 100 came up in the 14th over with Malik going for 16 runs.

Shepherd broke the partnership when he had Hooda caught in the deep to signal the arrival of the in-form Ayush Badoni (19 off 12), who got into the groove with a boundary.