🏏IPL 2023: Match 13 - Gujarat Titans vs Kolkata Knight Riders 🏏 - Page 74

Originally posted by: Viswasruti

Only one winner and most members scored 40 points!!!!!

Ab aishe unexpected chize hongi toh kiya karega inshaan😂 main toh khud ka gadha khud khoda I have changed Kkr and Narine to GT and Rashid🤣

Just in last match of KKR I saw somewhere SRK was saying.. "Rinku to mera baccha hai"

Bacche ne naam roshan kar diya😆

Congrats KKR n srk fan u won today's prediction game🥳

Congratulations Rinku Singh ⭐️👏🥳

Originally posted by: WildestDreams

Rinku, POTM…well deserved👏👏

I agree very well deserved👏

Don't tell me that actually happened. What an unbelievable finish to a game that was only just soaking up a hattrick from Rashid Khan a few overs ago. There was the blistering knock from Venkatesh Iyer too. But this moment, this game, this evening belongs to Rinku Singh who has left everyone stunned. He ran straightaway towards the dugout in celebration but was stopped halfway by his skipper who's all over him. And on the other hand there's Yash Dayal who's crestfallen. He had 29 to defend off the final over, and conceded a single off the first ball. What followed will go down in folklore as one of the greatest ever finishes to a T20 game. Carlos Brathwaite did it all those years ago with four sixes. Rinku went one step further tonight.

Rashid Khan | GT stand-in captain: It's a tough game for us, especially for me as a captain. You need 30 plus in the last over, the same thing happened for us last year when we won. We will learn from it, more importantly a good game of cricket and the fans would have loved it. It was more about what he is most comfortable with, to trust his plans [on Yash Dayal's plans]. Rinku played unbelievable shots and credit goes to him for the way he played and for the way he finished. Keep it simple, hit the right area consistently and that's what T20 is all about. As a bowler I'm always trying to hit the right area. We got what we wanted. We wanted 190 and we got 200. As a bowling unit we got enough to defend, but sometimes in T20 even 250 does not look good. Take positives from this, it's still early in the competition and learn from it. Definitely not [on if this defeat will hurt morale]. Chin up and keep smiling and we come back stronger and stronger. It's good and something new is happening in T20, it makes you mature and I feel it's very good for the game of cricket [on the new rules]. For my future it's great, leading the team in IPL gives you lots of knowledge for the future. Good learning for me as a player and as a captain.

Venkatesh Iyer: It was a nail-biting finish, extremely happy that we won the game. Our coach has always said that we can score 200 on any given day. Honestly, the wicket was quite good to bat and I was just trying to execute my plans. When the target is 200, you can't have silent overs. Me and Nitish had a good partnership. Unfortunately, somewhere we lost our way but Lord Rinku saved the day. To be honest, we still believed that we could win. This teaches us that we should never give up until the last ball. This will be a great morale-booster for us. We want to make winning a habit. I haven’t been in great form. Tonight, I went out and played as late as possible. The bowlers were quick and I tried to use their pace, and that worked to my advantage.

Batters hitting five sixes in an over in the IPL:

5 - Chris Gayle (RCB) vs Rahul Sharma (PWI), Bangalore, 2012

5 - Rahul Tewatia (RR) vs Sheldon Cottrell (PBKS), Sharjah, 2020

5 - Ravindra Jadeja (CSK) vs Harshal Patel (RCB), Mumbai WS, 2021

5 - Marcus Stoinis & Jason Holder (LSG) vs Shivam Mavi (KKR), Pune, 2022

5 - Rinku Singh (KKR) vs Yash Dayal (GT), Ahmedabad, today

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