“King of Royals”- Yuzvendra Chahal’s hat-trick and 5-wicket haul leaves fans open-mouthed

“King of Royals”- Yuzvendra Chahal’s hat-trick and 5-wicket haul leaves fans open-mouthed

Yuzvendra Chahal

With the brilliant 5-wicket haul and a hat-trick from Yuzvendra Chahal, Rajasthan slammed Kolkata Knight Riders at the Brabourne Stadium on Monday, April 18.

He dismissed Varun Chakravarthy, Shreyas Iyer and Pat Cummins in consecutive deliveries; scalped his first hat-trick in this season. With this, he became 19th player in the history of IPL to take a hat-trick.

In the fourth and final over of Yuzvendra Chahal, KKR were at 178/4 with a well-set Shreyas Iyer batting on 85 from 50 balls. He was just joined by Venkatesh Iyer and KKR needed 40 runs in four overs.

Chahal first stumped off Venkatesh Iyer in his first delivery. Prior to this wicket, in his third over Chahal had taken Nitish Rana’s wicket. Now he was one the verge of a hat-trick. But Sheldon Jackson, who the next batsman, saw off the delivery safely.

Then Chahal trapped Shreyas (85) Iyer with a lbw then. He then sent back Shivam Mavi for a duck and Pat Cummins, who played an outside-edge, was caught by wicket-keeper Sanju Samson. The 31-year-old finished the over with 4 wickets and 2 runs, one of which came from a wide.

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With Yuzvendra Chahal’s 5-wicket haul, RR slams KKR

Yuzvendra Chahal
Yuzvendra Chahal

Meanwhile KKR had won the toss and opted to bowl first. RR started their innings with terrific bating from Jos Buttler. Jos Buttler scored his 2nd century (103 from 61 balls with 9 fours and 5 sixes) and gave his wicket to Pat Cummins. On the other hand, RR captain Sanju Samson also scored a quick 38 off 19 balls.

Lakshipathy Balaji was the first bowler in the history of IPL to take a hat-trick. Amit Mishra took three hat-tricks, Yuvraj Singh had taken two. Others were Makhaya Ntini, Rohit Sharma, Praveen Kumar, Ajit Chandila, Sunil Narine, Pravin Tambe, Shane Watson, Parvinder Awana, Axar Patel, Samuel Badree, Andre Tye, Jaydev Unadkat, Sam Curran, Shreyas Gopal, Harshal Patel and Chahal.

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