{"id":164250,"date":"2026-05-06T17:47:46","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T23:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/?p=164250"},"modified":"2026-05-06T17:47:46","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T23:17:46","slug":"lucknow-super-giants-has-a-lot-of-pride-to-play-for-says-assistant-coach-klusener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/?p=164250","title":{"rendered":"Lucknow Super Giants has \u2018a lot of pride to play for\u2019, says assistant coach Klusener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"content-body-70947676\" itemprop=\"articleBody\">Lucknow Super Giants assistant coach Lance Klusener said his side still had \u201ca lot of pride to play for\u201d ahead of his side\u2019s clash against Royal Challengers Bengaluru at the Ekana Stadium on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s tough, but I think we\u2019ve all got a responsibility to our brand, to the people in our changing room, to our owners as well, to make sure that even though the playoff chances might be slim, we\u2019ve still got a lot of pride to play for,\u201d Klusener said in a press conference ahead of the match.<\/p>\n<p>The former South Africa international also hinted that a few younger players may get an opportunity in the coming five games, saying, \u201cThere are a lot of younger people that may get opportunities going forward, so the group has a responsibility to make sure they get the best platform to perform as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>LSG has lost all four of its matches at the Ekana Stadium so far, with run-rates at the venue on the lower side. Klusener, however, described the wicket as \u201cfantastic\u201d and instead pointed to the size of the boundaries as a factor tripping batters up.<\/p>\n<p><b>ALSO READ | <a href=\"https:\/\/sportstar.thehindu.com\/cricket\/ipl\/ipl-news\/csk-vs-dc-ipl-2026-sanju-samson-backbone-says-ruturaj-gaikwad-chennai-super-kings-delhi-capitals\/article70945670.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u2018Sanju Samson is our backbone,\u2019 says CSK skipper Ruturaj Gaikwad<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you look at the stats in terms of six-hitting, the least amount of sixes are hit here. So you just need to be aware of that and play in a slightly different way,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe boundaries will happen, but what can happen is that you can get caught up in what\u2019s happening in other games around the country, get into boundary mode, and end up missing out a lot on the ones and twos that make up a bulk of the scoring here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"publish-time\" id=\"end-of-article\">Published on May 06, 2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/sportstar.thehindu.com\/cricket\/ipl\/lucknow-super-giants-ipl-2026-pride-to-play-for-klusener-lsg-vs-rcb-match\/article70947676.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lucknow Super Giants assistant coach Lance Klusener said his side still had \u201ca lot of pride to play for\u201d ahead of his side\u2019s clash against Royal Challengers Bengaluru at the Ekana Stadium on Thursday. \u201cIt\u2019s tough, but I think we\u2019ve all got a responsibility to our brand, to the people in our changing room, to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":164251,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/20_RVM_1110.jpg","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgnRh4-GJc","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=164250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/164251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=164250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=164250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=164250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}