Rinku Singh has hit 5 sixes off the ultimate 5 deliveries to drag off one of many nice Indian Premier League wins for Kolkata Knight Riders.
Chasing a mammoth goal of 205 to beat the Gujarat Titans in Ahmedabad on Sunday, Rinku needed to rating 28 off the ultimate 5 balls of the match and, extremely, achieved the feat with 5 enormous blows.
The Titans, reigning IPL champions, seemed to have wrapped up victory after Afghanistan spinner Rashid Khan had claimed a hat-trick to depart Kolkata reeling at 7-155-7 the seventeenth over.
With Kolkata needing 29 runs off the ultimate over, the unlucky Yash Dayal was handed the ball and after Umesh Yadav took a single off the primary supply, Rinku lower unfastened.
The 25-year-old capitalised on three full tosses to clear the ropes earlier than smashing the ultimate two balls from outdoors off stump over the long-on boundary as Kolkata gained by three wickets.
“I was just trying to hit sixes. I was not thinking a lot, was just reacting to the ball,” stated Rinku, the participant of the match.
“It kept coming out of the middle, I had belief and it came off in the end.”
Rinku set a file for many runs by any batter within the twentieth over of an IPL run-chase.
“Rinku played unbelievable shots and credit goes to him for the way he played and for the way he finished,” Titans captain Rashid stated.
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
