Rinku Singh hit a 110-meter six: Bishnoi caught Gurbaj’s catch in 3 attempts, giving life to De Kock due to no appeal; View Moments

Lucknow Supergiants have reached the playoffs of the current season of the Indian Premier League. The team defeated Kolkata by one run in a very thrilling match. Many exciting moments were seen in this match. Some were such that the fans applauded a lot, while some were seen cursing the players.

You will read about some such ups and downs in this story. Along with this, we will know the effect of these moments in the competition.

Let’s start with the catch that didn’t appeal…

Dickock caught in the first over of the innings, avoids appeal
After losing the toss, De Kock, who came out to open for Lucknow, got a life, that too by the mistake of Kolkata captain Nitish Rana. Actually, something happened that De Kock and Karan Sharma got down to start the innings of Lucknow. On the other hand, Nitish Rana handed the ball to fast bowler Harshit Rana. De Kock was caught out on a ball from Harshit, but he survived due to no appeal from Kolkata. Please tell here that the umpire cannot give out to any batsman without appeal. Not only this, de Kock also survived being run out in the second over.

impact : De Kock played an inning of 27 runs off 28 balls. He shared a 25-ball 41-run partnership with Prerak Mankad after the wicket of his partner opener Karan Sharma (3 runs) fell on 14 runs.

In the very first over, De Kock was almost out on the ball of Harshit Rana, he was saved by a mistake by Nitish Rana.

Vaibhav Arora took two wickets in 3 balls
Lucknow started well in the powerplay. The team had scored 54 runs for one wicket in 6 overs, in such a situation, Vaibhav Arora took 2 wickets in one over and put a break on the run rate of Lucknow. Vaibhav took 2 wickets in 3 balls.

Arora got Prerak Mankad caught by Harshit Rana on the third ball of the 7th over. Then Marcus Stoinis was made to walk on zero. Vaibhav also broke the 41-run partnership between De Kock and Mankad by dismissing Mankad.

impact : The fall of two wickets in an over put the Lucknow batsmen under pressure and the current run-rate also came down.

Vaibhav Arora took two wickets for 30 runs in four overs. He dismissed Prerak Mankad and Stoinis.

Puran got out after hitting two consecutive sixes
Nicholas Pooran was dismissed after hitting two consecutive sixes off Shardul Thakur. This Caribbean batsman scored sky-high sixes on the first and second balls of the 18th over of the innings. After that, Venkatesh Iyer was caught on the third ball.
Puran played an important inning of 58 runs on 30 balls. Pooran handled the innings after losing De Kock’s wicket on 73 and took the score beyond 150. He shared a 73-run partnership with Badoni on 47 balls.

impact : After Puran’s dismissal, Lucknow could score only 16 runs in 10 balls. As long as Puran was there, it seemed that the team would score more than 185 runs.

Nicholas Pooran hit a six like this on the ball of Shardul Thakur, who was throwing the 19th over.

Venkatesh moaned in pain after playing sweep shot in Powerplay
Chasing a target of 177 runs, Kolkata got off to a brisk start by Venkatesh Iyer and Jason Roy. Both had scored 30 runs in 2 overs, till the end of the powerplay the team’s score was 61 runs. Earlier, Venkatesh Iyer played a sweep shot on the second ball of Krishnappa Gautam, who was bowling the fourth over, but in an attempt to play this shot, Venkatesh’s back vein got stretched and he groaned in pain. Venkatesh left the bat at the crease. In such a situation, the team’s physios treated him.

impact: Due to this stretch, Venkatesh could not play a big innings and got out after scoring 24 runs in the 5th ball of the 6th over. Venkatesh shared an opening partnership of 61 off 35 balls with Jason Roy.

While trying to sweep Krishnappa Gowtham’s ball, Iyer had a sudden pain in his back.

Rinku Singh’s catch missed on Ravi Bishnoi’s ball
Ravi Bishnoi brought the 13th over. Rinku Singh played the first ball of this over in the front direction, but Bishnoi could not collect the ball. When this catch was missed, Rinku was playing by scoring 15 runs in 14 balls.

impact: Rinku played an unbeaten 67 off 33 balls to bring Kolkata closer to the target.

Ravi missed Rinku Singh’s catch on his own ball.

Ravi caught Gujbaj’s catch in three attempts
Ravi Bishnoi took a brilliant catch by Rahmatullah Gurbaz. Bishnoi took this catch after three attempts. In fact, Gurbaj missed the fourth ball of the 14th over and the ball went towards Ravi Bishnoi standing at point, but the ball missed Ravi’s hand in the first attempt, so he completed the catch in the second and third attempts.

impact: Rahmatullah Gurbaz got out after scoring 10 runs. From here the series of wickets of Kolkata started.

In the first attempt, Ravi missed the catch of Gurbaj.

Ravi tried to catch it again.

Ravi Bishnoi trying to catch the ball after it was snatched from his hand.

Rinku hit a six of 110 meters
Rinku Singh hit a 110-metre six off Naveen-ul-Haq in the 19th over of the innings. Naveen bowled this ball on good length, on which Rinku hit a six in the direction of deep square. In the same over, Rinku scored three consecutive fours on three balls of Naveen.

impact : Throwing 19 overs, Naveen scored 20 runs on 6 balls and Kolkata came close to victory. 21 runs were needed in the last over.

Rinku scored 20 runs in one over of Naveen-ul-Haq.

Kolkata lost even after Rinku Singh’s three boundaries in the last over
In the last over, Kolkata needed 21 runs to win. In such a situation, Rinku Singh hit two sixes and a four on Shardul Thakur’s ball, but could not win his team. The pair of Vaibhav and Rinku could only score 19 runs in the last over.

impact : Kolkata lost by one run and were out of the playoff race.

Despite Rinku Singh’s innings, Kolkata lost the match by one run.

Some more photos from the match

Puran celebrated his half century in this way.

Naveen-ul-Haq was seen silencing the fans.