The seventh match of IPL 2025 was played on 27 March between the teams of Lucknow Super Giants and Sunrisers Hyderabad at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Hyderabad. In this match, Lucknow Super Giants registered their first win by defeating Sunrisers Hyderabad by 5 wickets. In which LSG showed strength in both batting and bowling. However, during the match, the Sunrisers Hyderabad team did something that made former England cricket team captain Michael Vaughan very unhappy.

Michael Vaughan publicly mocked the SRH team.

Former England cricket team captain Michael Vaughan took a dig at the Sunrisers Hyderabad team regarding strategic time-out during this match. Actually, in strategic time out, teams get a chance to make a strategy. Teams even use it when the match is stuck, or their team is lagging. But Sunrisers Hyderabad took a strategic time out during this match when the Lucknow team needed 2 runs in 24 balls. That is, he had completely lost this match, but despite this, he surprised everyone by taking a strategic time out.

Michael Vaughan did not look happy at all with this decision of Sunrisers Hyderabad. Michael Vaughan shared a post on social media and wrote, 'Only in IPL can you take a strategic time out when 2 runs are needed in 24 balls and 5 wickets are left.' Michael Vaughan wrote something on social media expressing his displeasure against Sunrisers Hyderabad, which is now becoming quite viral.

Lucknow Super Giants won the match easily.

In this match, after winning the toss, LSG decided to bowl first, which proved to be right. Sunrisers Hyderabad did not have a good start; their openers Abhishek Sharma and Ishan Kishan were out early. After this, Travis Head tried to handle the innings by playing a quick innings of 47 runs, but Prince Yadav gave a big relief to LSG by dismissing him. Then captain Pat Cummins and Aniket Verma took the team to a score of 190/9 in 20 overs.

Nicholas Pooran and Mitchell Marsh played brilliant innings for Lucknow Super Giants, who came out to chase the target of 191 runs. Pooran scored 70 runs in 26 balls, which included many long sixes. At the same time, Marsh also contributed 52 runs. After this, Abdul Samad scored an unbeaten 22 runs in 8 balls and gave LSG victory in 16.1 overs. With this win, Lucknow got its first success in the season.

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