Kolkata Knight Riders batter Rinku Singh’s bat with which he smashed Gujarat Titans for 5 consecutive sixes within the final over to win in a dramatic vogue, was reluctantly given to him by his captain Nitish Rana.
“This (the one Rinku used) is my bat and I played both matches (this season) with this bat. I have played the entire Syed Mushtaq Ali trophy and the last four to five matches of last year with this bat,” Rana mentioned in a submit on the workforce’s Twitter deal with.
“Today (Sunday) I changed my bat. Rinku asked me for my bat. I didn’t want to give him my bat initially, but somebody brought this bat (from dressing room).
“I had a feeling that he would pick this bat because it has a very nice pickup and according to my weight this bat is light. So (now) this bat belongs to Rinku, not me.”
With Kolkata needing 29 runs to win off the final over, Umesh Yadav took a single off the primary ball off Yash Dayal. Rinku slashed at a full-toss outdoors off-stump to ship the ball crusing over the long-off boundary. The subsequent supply was one other full-toss, a decrease one on leg-stump and the left-hander flicked it over behind deep square-leg.
An under-fire Dayal was clearly feeling the stress now as he darted in one other full-toss outdoors off and Rinku as soon as once more cleared the long-off fence to make it three maximums in a row. Dayal adjusted his size however, after being responsible of bowling full-tosses within the earlier deliveries, now pitched it too brief. Rinku pounced on a free one outdoors off-stump and launched it over long-on.
The equation got here right down to 4 runs wanted off the final ball. Dayal pitched it brief once more and Rinku pumped it down the bottom for a fifth consecutive six as a surprised Gujarat Titans was handed its first defeat of IPL 2023.
Rinku end with an unbeaten on 48 off 21 balls.
Source web site: sportstar.thehindu.com
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