IPL 2024: Lucknow Super Giants' Ayush Badoni and Arshad Khan register colossal history with 73-run partnership against Delhi Capitals

Atishay Jain

• Sat • 13 Apr 2024

LSG's Arshad Khan and Ayush Badoni. (PC: Getty).

Highlights:

Ayush Badoni and Arshad Khan combined for a 73-run partnership in just 45 balls.

The duo helped the team post a challenging score of 167/7 in 20 overs.

During the Indian Premier League (IPL) match between Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) and Delhi Capitals (DC) on April 12 (Friday), Ayush Badoni and Arshad Khan joined to register a huge history. Badoni and Arshad registered the highest-ever partnership for the eighth wicket in the cash-rich tournament's history. The LSG batting duo combined for a 73-run partnership in just 45 balls and helped the team post a challenging score of 167/7 in 20 overs.

24-year-old Badoni scored an unbeaten 55 runs off 35 balls with the help of five fours and a six while Arshad added 20 not out off 16 balls with the assistance of two fours.

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Badoni thanks LSG franchise

Badoni, who scored his first half-century of the season, reflected on his performance with the bat and thanked the franchise for sticking with him for the long run.

"Enjoyed it. Wasn't able to score in the last 3 innings. Feel blessed. Very thankful to the franchise for showing their support. This match I wanted to take it deep and build partnerships, tried to score off the bad balls. Arshad (Khan) played a great supportive role, that helped us cross 160. Hopefully we'll defend the total and win this game," Badoni told the broadcasters at the mid-innings break, as quoted by Cricbuzz.

Badoni and Arshad help LSG post a respectable score

After electing to bat, LSG lost the wicket of Quinton de Kock fairly early while Devdutt Padikkal, Marcus Stoinis and Nicholas Pooran failed to make any impact with the bat. KL Rahul looked in sublime touch before being outfoxed by Kuldeep Yadav. After the end of 13 overs, the Lucknow-based franchise was in all sorts of trouble with a disappointing score of 94/7 on the board.

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Badoni and Arshad steadied the ship before launching an attack in the last couple of overs. It was because of the duo's rear-guard action that LSG posted a defendable score on the board.

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