Defending Indian Premier League (IPL) champions Mumbai Indians actually rose from the useless in opposition to Kolkata Knight Riders of their second match of the 2021 version. Rohit Sharma’s aspect have been actually ‘dead and buried’ with KKR needing solely about 30 runs to win within the final 5 overs with Dinesh Karthik and Andre Russell but to bat.
But sensible bowling by Jasprit Bumrah and Trent Boult led MI to a 10-run win over KKR on the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai. Former India opener Virender Sehwag got here up with a hilarious Instagram publish. The publish learn: “Mumbai Indians to KKR in the last 5 overs. Coming back from the dead #ipl #mivskkr”. It had a GIF picture of WWE celebrity Undertaker rising from inside a coffin and ‘choke-slamming’ Randy Orton.
The publish had over 8.36 lakh views on the social media platform. Sehwag additionally questioned Karthik and Russell’s means to end the sport.
“Eoin Morgan had given a statement that they will play that way (with postive intent) after the first game but it didn’t look like that when Andre Russell and Dinesh Karthik came in to bat. The way Russell and Karthik batted, it felt like they planned to take the game till the end and win it. But that didn’t happen. The batters who came before them – be it Shakib Al Hasan, Eoin Morgan, Shubman Gill or Nitish Rana – all of them played with positive intent,” Sehwag stated on Cricbuzz.
Sehwag additionally added that both Nitish Rana or Shubman Gill ought to have stayed there until the tip to shut out the match for KKR. “Either Rana or Gill should have batted till the end. They had seen what had happened in the MI innings, despite getting off to a good start they could only manage 152,” he stated.
