Kolkata Knight Riders’ Nitish Rana leaves the sphere after his dismissal in the course of the IPL 2023 cricket match between Kolkata Knight Riders and Mumbai Indians at Wankhede Stadium, in Mumbai, Sunday, April 16, 2023.
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The rivalry between two gamers within the Indian home circuit got here to the fore on the IPL stage right here on April 16, with Kolkata Knight Riders’ captain Nitish Rana and Mumbai Indians’ Hrithik Shokeen partaking in a disagreement within the first innings.
The incident occurred within the ninth over of their match on the Wankhede Stadium when the Mumbai Indians’ bowler gave an earful to Rana after dismissing the KKR captain, who stopped in his tracks to show round and hurl some phrases again on the bowler.
Shokeen had Rana caught at lengthy on by substitute fielder Ramandeep Singh, and instantly regarded within the course of the batter to say a number of phrases. But as Rana turned again to answer the younger participant’s cost at him, Mumbai Indians’ stand-in skipper Suryakumar Yadav and the senior most participant within the sport, Piyush Chawla, stepped in to diffuse the stress.
It have to be famous that each Rana and Shokeen are teammates within the Delhi facet in home cricket, however they aren’t on speaking phrases even within the dressing room. The flare-up that occurred on Sunday afternoon was not one-off since these two gamers have had a historical past between them.
If Rana had an strange sport with the bat, falling for 5 off 10 balls, Shokeen was a busy participant on Sunday as after taking a pointy catch to dismiss the struggling N Jagadeesan early on off Cameron Green at cowl level he returned with 4-0-39-2 whereas additionally accounting for KKR all-rounder Shardul Thakur.
