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A brilliant all-round effort in the third game of Indian Premier League (IPL) 2020 took Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) to victory over Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) on Monday (September 21).
Chasing 164, SRH lost David Warner (6) early, but Jonny Bairstow (61) and Manish Pandey (34) steadied the innings. The duo added a crucial stand of 71-runs before Yuzvendra Chahal (3/18) removed Pandey.
Bairstow held one end and reached to his fifty. He was all set to take his side home but Chahal had some other plans. The leg-spinner ended Bairstow’s innings in the 16th over. On the very next delivery, Yuzi sent Vijay Shankar back to the dugout to claim his third wicket.
SRH lost their batsmen regularly in the remaining overs. At one stage, Sunrisers wer⛦e 121/3 but were soon bundled out for 153.
Padikkal scored a fifty on his IPL debut
Earlier, Devdutt Padikkal (56 off 42) proved his worth with a brilliant half-century on IPL debut. The leꦐft-handed batsman smashed eight fours during h🍌is scintillating knock.
Apart from the 20-year-old, RCB’s spinal-column AB de Villiers scored a quickfire 30-ball ℱ51 to take his side to 163/5.
Bhuvneshwar Kumar was the least expensive bowler for SRH. He bowled all his four overs and conceded 25 runs at the economy of 6.20.
Here is how Twitter reacted:
Congratulations
— SAYYED IQBAL ABDULLღAH (SIA)ꦕ (@iqqiabdullah)
Padikkal 👏 👏 👏
— Ashwin 🇮🇳 (@ashwinravi99)
Prodigal Padikkal 😇🤗 A star is born.
— Aakash Chopra (@cricketaakash)
Devdutt Padikkal:
Fifty on First-class debut ✅
Fifty on List-A debut ✅
Fifty on T20 debut ✅
Fifty on IPL debut ✅Serious talent!
— Bharath Seervi (@SeerviBharath)
Here it is!
200 SIXES in IPL for Mr 360
— IndianPremierLeague (@IPL)
has dominated last year’s domestic season and now I wish he dominates in and goes on to dominate international cricket… Great talent 👍
— Pragyan Ojha (@pragyanojha)
When a younger player is hot 🔥 you just let them go. Happy to see hav𝓀e allowed a chance to continue hi🗹s form 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
— Lisa Sthalekar (@sthalekar93)
Noඣt surprised to see Padikkal bosꦛsing , class act .
— Deep Dasgupta (@DeepDasgupta7)
What a remarkable victory! It's Chahal who made all the difference between the two sides… What a bowler! Great win for !
— MANOJ TIWARY (@tiwarymanoj)
So Devdutt Padikkal has dominated in the Mushtaq Ahmed Troph𓆏y has he 🙈🙈🙈🤪🤪🤪
— Scott Styris (@scottbstyris)
What a match 🐽winner is wicket of turn the match in favour of Now they ꧃need some good death bowling.
— Irfan Pathan (@IrfanPathan)
Chaaaaaaahaaaaallllll 👌👌👌👌👏👏👏👏�🐎�👏 Top class vs
— Harbhajan Turbanator (@harbhajan_singh)
This is quality spin bowlling 🔥🔥💫💯🐷 u bea൩uty bro 😊🙌 😊🙌
— Rahul Sharma (@ImRahulSharma3)
50 on debut! 👏
Great to see such gems coming out from this stage
Impressive!
— Vinod Kambli (@vinodkambli349)
SRH 121/2 in 15.1 overs needed 43 to win from 29 balls with Chahal bowling his final over:Bairstow’s bigꦚ shot didn’t come off. After that SRH lost their way: lost 8 wickets for 32 runs in 27 balls! One of the Top 3 needed to bat through.Match winning effort from Chahal
— Sarang Bhalerao (@bhaleraosarang)
What a comeback by !!
Only the second time a team has taken EIGHT WICKETS in ꧂the last five overs while defending in IPL (first was DC v SRH, 2019)
Finally their bowlers succeeded 𒀰in the d💮eath overs.
Ee saala cup namde?
— Bharath Seervi (@SeerviBharath)
