‘Bhaga Bhaga ke pel raha hain’ – Fans react as Jos Buttler and Yashasvi Jaiswal give Rajasthan their highest score in powerplay in Indian T20 League history
Jos Buttler and Yashashvi Jaiswal (Source: Twitter)
The Hyderabad franchise locked horns against the Rajasthan side in the fourth encounter of the 16th edition of the Indian T20 League on Sunday, April 2 at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Hyderabad. The skipper of the home team, Bhuvneshwar Kumar won the toss and elected to bowl first.
Batting first, the Rajasthan franchise openers, Jos Buttler and Yashashvi Jaiswal, destroyed the Hyderabad bowling in the powerplay as they both together put on 85 runs in just 35 balls before Afghanistan seamer Fazalhaq Farooqi cleaned up the English skipper. Before going back to the pavilion, the 32-year-old scored a quickfire knock of 54 runs off just 22 balls.
After Buttler’s wicket, Rajasthan skipper Sanju Samson came onto the field and built up a partnership with the youngster. They both together took the team’s score of 139 runs before the 21-year-old was dismissed by Farooqi after scoring 54 runs from 37 balls which included nine fours. Samson also scored important 55 runs off 32 balls with three fours and four sixes.
Umran Malik dismisses Devdutt Paddikal with a ripper
West Indies star batter Shimron Hetmyer also played a crucial unbeaten knock of 22 runs from 16 balls, which included one four and one six each. For the hosts, the pick of the bowlers were the Afghanistan’s 22-year-old speedster and India’s left-arm pacer T Natarajan, who snapped two wickets each each in their respective spells of four overs and three overs respectively. While on one side, the Afghan fast bowler conceded 41 runs, on the other hand, 31-year-old conceded only 23 runs.
One wicket was grabbed by Jammu and Kashmir fast bowler, Umran Malik, who bowled the young India batter Devdutt Paddikal with a ripper. The speed of that bowl was over 149. The star from Assam, Riyan Parag also failed to perform as he was able to score only seven runs from six balls. Rajasthan finished their innings at the score of 203 runs for the loss of five wickets and set a target of 204 for the Hyderabad franchise to chase.
While chasing a mammoth total of 204 runs, the hosts lost the first two wickets of opener Abhishek Sharma and Rahul Tripathi in the first over without opening the team’s account, courtesy of Trent Boult. After the end of the powerplay, star England batter Harry Brook is, currently, batting on 10 runs and former Punjab franchise skipper Mayank Aggarwal is batting on 20.
Here’s how fans reacted on the opening partnership:
https://twitter.com/aimlessSoul95/status/1642474709400035329
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Cheerleaders to Buttler*😂🤣 pic.twitter.com/ss3mGUB0qe
— Badal (@Badal77274728) April 2, 2023
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currently owning the IPL
— Gautam Sharma (@Gautam36355687) April 2, 2023
SRH looks lost completely!
— Varun Singh (@varun22singh) April 2, 2023
— ROLEX (@Rolex85922785) April 2, 2023
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