Punjab Kings skipper Okay.L. Rahul was near scoring the primary century of this Indian Premier League season. His hopes, nonetheless, have been dashed as Rajasthan Royals spinner Rahul Tewatia pulled off a stunning catch at deep mid-wicket boundary.
The Punjab franchise skipper, who obtained the Orange cap final season for many runs in IPL 2020, fell 9 wanting a century, getting dismissed for 91 off 50 deliveries.
At the beginning of the final over of Punjab Kings’ innings, Rahul was batting on 87. He smashed the primary ball from left-arm tempo bowler Chetan Sakariya over additional cowl for 4. The ball was slower however Rahul picked the tempo and size and hammered it to the boundary.
Rahul wanted simply 9 to get to his ton and had 5 balls. The odds have been closely stacked in his favour, going by the best way he was batting.
He tried to hit the following ball over mid-wicket boundary however Tewatia on the boundary rope caught the ball which was behind him and going over the rope. The momentum was pushing Tewatia out of the boundary however earlier than tipping over he threw the ball again into the sphere after which dived into the sphere of play after having crossed the rope to take a sensational catch.
Here’s the video of the catch:
Bit of Tewatia magic! #PBKSvsRR pic.twitter.com/mQoXxuESdn
— Vineet Sharma (@Vineetteeniv20) April 12, 2021
Talking concerning the match, Sanju Samson (119 off 63 balls) scored a hundred on his Indian Premier League (IPL) captaincy debut however could not take his aspect RR previous the end line, getting dismissed off the final ball of the match as his staff misplaced to PBKS by 4 runs in a excessive-scoring thriller on the Wankhede Stadium on Monday evening.
RR seemed very a lot within the sport all through as Samson introduced the equation down to five runs off two balls. However, he refused to take a run on the second final ball after he had hit it to deep additional cowl which may have fetched them a run, even a double. Instead, he eyed a glory shot for six on the final ball, however holed out to deep additional cowl as his aspect fell quick by 4 runs.
RR had obtained off to a worse attainable begin, dropping their energy-hitting all-rounder Ben Stokes to Mohammed Shami within the first over of the innings. Soon Manan Vohra, the opposite opener was despatched again, leaving the Jaipur franchise at 25 for 2 within the fourth over.
What adopted although was an imperious present of batting from Samson as he clobbered seven sixes and 12 fours to take the sport to the wire.
He constructed a couple of half-century partnerships with Shivam Dube and Riyan Parag and one in every of 45 with Jos Buttler to maintain his staff within the match.
Earlier, a 105-run partnership for the third wicket in simply 46 balls between skipper Okay.L. Rahul (91 off 50 balls) and Deepak Hooda (64 off 28 balls) helped Punjab Kings put up 221/6 of their 20 overs.
Brief scores:Â Punjab Kings 221/6 in 20 overs (Okay.L. Rahul 91, C Gayle 40, D Hooda 64, C Sakariya 3/31, C Morris 2/40) vs Rajasthan Royals 217/7 in 20 overs (S Samson 119, R Parag 25, J Buttler 25, S Dube 23, Arshdeep 3/35).
