In recent times, Yuzvendra Chahal hasn’t had phenomenal outings on the field. He has found himself ousted from both the ODI and T20I teams and has endured a rough patch after being smashed in most of the games he has played so far. Over the years he’s consistently peaked in the Indian Premier League (IPL) but in the ongoing season, he is yet to replicate the performance.
With just 2 wickets in the first 4 games, Chahal has been failing t deliver for RCB this season and has simply not done the job the captain has asked of him. This is still excusable, as every player goes through such a phase in their careers, but what Chahal did on the field today, however, was far worse than his lean run with the ball.
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On the third ball of the 10th ball, Suresh Raina, on his very first ball, took off for a suicidal, non-existent single after barely putting bat to a leg-spinner that turned into him. Anxious to get off the mark, Raina immediately decided to go for the single and put on his skates in an attempt to get to the non-striker’s end. But where Raina had committed a heinous crime was that he misjudged the run.
Moments after Raina took off, AB de Villiers, got to the ball and at that very moment, it looked like CSK’s all-time highest run-getter would perish for a golden duck. However, what happened next left the RCB players in shock. AB threw the ball towards the bowler’s end, but to his absolute bafflement the bowler, Chahal, was not standing behind the stumps to collect the ball.
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Chahal, quite staggeringly zoned-out, was guilty of watching the ball and hence made no attempt to get back behind the stumps. The lack of awareness from Chahal was so poor and inexcusable that it left Ab de Villiers baffled, who put his arms up in the air to question the actions of the leg-spinner
Here is the video of the incident:
https://twitter.com/lodulalit001/status/1386273200875589634?s=20
Here is how Twitter reacted:
@RCBTweets Chahal did mistake runout chance .this is big for RCB after .May be #Chahal not getting count this wicket .
— C M (@CHINNALAABIOSC1) April 25, 2021
Easy runout miss kardiya chutur chahal
— Being Haider (@being_Sk_alia) April 25, 2021
Chahal wtf. Cover behind stumps for runout #RCB #RCBvsCSK
— Karthik Jate (@KarthikJate) April 25, 2021
Chahal is sloppy in the field ! Missed a runout
— S Feroz Khan (@SFerozKhan8) April 25, 2021
