Rajasthan Royals (RR) locked horns with Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) in their latest encounter of the season at the iconic Wankhede stadium. The highly anticipated encounter was a crucial one in the context of the points tally. Shreyas Iyer decided to bowl first after winning the toss. While batting first, The Rajasthan-based team posted a total of 152 on the scoreboard. Shimron Hetmyer, The Caribbean was the pick of the batsmen for RR as he managed to score 27 off just 13 deliveries.
Skipper, Sanju Samson went on to score a half-century. During the first innings, Anukul Roy, the left-hand all-rounder made a stunning attempt to stop a boundary. The incident took place near the fine leg region. It was a brilliant attempt and a successful one. Roy covered a lot of ground before diving forward.
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Though the on-field umpires went upstairs to check if the ball touched the boundary rope or not. After checking it several times, the third-umpire confirmed it at a clean attempt. The all-rounder is playing his first game for the KKR in IPL 2022 against the Rajasthan Royals.
Here is the video of the brilliant fielding effort of Anukul Roy:
https://twitter.com/krishnaa_ti/status/1521139961575223296?s=20&t=-CA8HZlZ_Mvh4XicwzxGVQ
Kolkata Knight Riders (Playing XI): Aaron Finch, Anukul Roy, Shreyas Iyer (c), Baba Indrajith (wk), Nitish Rana, Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Sunil Narine, Umesh Yadav, Tim Southee, Shivam Mavi.
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Rajasthan Royals (Playing XI): Jos Buttler, Devdutt Padikkal, Sanju Samson (c) (wk), Karun Nair, Shimron Hetmyer, Riyan Parag, Ravichandran Ashwin, Trent Boult, Prasidh Krishna, Kuldeep Sen, Yuzvendra Chahal.
The Twitter users were impressed with the commitment of Anukul Roy. The left-hander is known for his amazing fielding skills and featured for the 5-time-champions as a fielding replacement on multiple occasions.
This is some fielding from anukul roy
— Arib 🦷 (@los_pollosss) May 2, 2022
Anukul Roy when KKR fielding coach asks why they fielded badly.#IPL2022 pic.twitter.com/aoxoLsc7hg
— Akash (@Akashkumarjha14) May 2, 2022
Anukul Roy was most underrated player from his under 19 batch.
— प्रकाश ☹︎⃤ (@gloomy_lad_) May 2, 2022
That is the uber cool, forever grounded #AnukulRoy for you. Very comfortable in the set-up of his own#RRvKKR #IPL2022
— Muesli (@_slowclaps) May 2, 2022
Rinku Singh, professional catcher, helping Anukul Roy, another professional catcher.
— Silly Point (@FarziCricketer) May 2, 2022
https://twitter.com/ZalzalaMass/status/1521144369163964419?s=20&t=XmI49c2DuF–j2xyk6IpQA
Anukul Roy fanboy here 👋
— .(KKR Ka Pirvar) (@badman_aa) May 2, 2022
https://twitter.com/krishnaa_ti/status/1521139961575223296?s=20&t=-CA8HZlZ_Mvh4XicwzxGVQ
