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NewsThe crowd at Eden Gardens, Kolkata started chanting “Kohli Kohli” when Afghanistan pacer Naveen-ul-Haq was getting smashed by Jason Roy. The incident happened during the 68th match of the Indian Premier League 2023 in the match played between Kolkata Knight Riders and Lucknow Super Giants
NewsThe incident when David Warner imitated Ravindra Jadeja’s “Sword Celebration” happened in the fifth over of the second innings. Australia’s opener smacked CSK pacer Deepak Chahar for a fast single and then tempted fielder Ajinka Rahane, who backed up to throw at the stumps. Jadeja grabbed the second back-up and locked eyes with Warner, threatening him with a run-out. Warner then performed Jadeja’s signature sword celebration, which caused the two players to burst out laughing.
NewsChase-Master Virat Kohli was phenomenal tonight, he smashed 12 boundaries and 4 sixes and reached hundred in IPL after four long years. After his century, the internet filled with his praises by cricket fans around the world.
Newsfans were impressed by Liam Livingstone’s knock of 94 runs off 48 deliveries with the help of 9 maximums and 5 boundaries. Other than Atharva, Liam Livingstone was the only one who showed some intent and fought single-handedly for his team till end before getting out on the last ball of the match.
News“I am playing after one year. I was injured, and it was a tough time. I am happy to bowl, and my father was in the hospital in the ICU. He was discharged yesterday, and I am hoping he is watching. Today I played for my father. He was hospitalised and is out now. Thanks to the team and support staff for having faith in me,” Mohsin Khan said in the post-match presentation.
NewsSuryakumar Yadav was trying to scoop the ball, which was outside off-stump. While playing the shot, instead of hitting the ball over the wicket-keeper’s head, the ball got dragged into the stumps instead and SKY lost his wicket.
NewsShubman Gill was looking in great touch from the very beginning of his innings and it was proved as well. The youngster played a fantastic knock of 103 runs before getting caught out on fine delivery by Bhuvneshwar Kumar. Regardless, he did his job for his team as he scored more than half of the total runs scored by the Gujarat Titans. After his fantastic century, Twitter was filled with tweets showering praises on him.
NewsOn the second last delivery of the first innings, MS Dhoni was clean bowled by Vaibhav Arora but that did not count as the last delivery was a no-ball and therefore, the Dhoni was bowled on a free-hit.
NewsWhile Dhoni and the other CSK players were completing a lap around the Chepauk stadium to hand out goodies to the fans, former India captain Sunil Gavaskar, who is presently part of the IPL 2023 commentary crew, ran up to MS Dhoni and got his autograph on his shirt.
NewsSRH fans started chanting Virat Kohli’s name out of nowhere to offend LSG players for obvious reasons and videos of the Crowd chanting “Kohli Kohli” in Hyderabad is flooding on the internet.
It is not my job to announce the winner
Rohit Sharma on being asked if England were rightly awarded the World Cup title in 2019