During the 54th match of the 11th season of the Indian Premier League (IPL) between Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) and Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) at Hyderabad, Kolkata Knight Riders’ Prasidh Krishna registered his career-best figures in a crucial match for his team.
After Kane Williamson won the toss and chose to bat, Sunrisers Hyderabad scored 172-5 in the allotted quota of 20 overs. Shikhar Dhawan’s 32nd IPL half-century laid the foundation for the others to score big off. However, the Sunrisers would have thought of scoring more than they eventually did.
A primary reason why the home team failed to finish the innings as well as they would have liked was a 22-year old Krishna, who was playing his fifth IPL match. Opening the bowling for his team alongside Nitish Rana, Krishna gave away 11 runs in his first over.
His second over was the 16th of the innings. On the first ball, he found Dhawan wanting in front of the stumps as Sunrisers lost their third wicket. Apart from picking up the big wicket, he gave away only five runs in the over. His third over saw him going for 10 runs especially after being hit for a six by Manish Pandey.
He came back in the last over to dismiss three batsmen, giving away a paltry four runs. On the first delivery of the last over, Pandey slogged a low full-toss towards the leg side which was exceptionally taken in the deep by Rinku Singh. On the fourth delivery of the over, Shakib Al Hasan’s attempt to pull the ball saw him hitting it tamely to Sunil Narine at short fine-leg.
On the penultimate delivery of the over, Rashid Khan sent the ball high into the air which was taken by Dinesh Karthik near the boundary. Krishna ended up with bowling figures of 4-0-30-4. Krishna bowled three out of four overs in the last five overs of the innings, which in itself speak highly about his performance. He also returned the captain’s trust on him with full interest.
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Watch how Twitterati reacted on his game-changing spell:
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A 'Prasidh' performance!#SRHvKKR pic.twitter.com/rKJJ91qo71— Star Sports (@StarSportsIndia) May 19, 2018
Superlative bowling performance by #KKR bowlers, specially Prasidh.. Hope we’ll chase the total.. Go KKR KKR KKR .. #SRHvKKR
— Sumit Kadel (@SumitkadeI) May 19, 2018
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https://twitter.com/Iamswathi3/status/997882066023968768
Good to see Prasidh having a very good IPL.
— arfan (@Im__Arfan) May 19, 2018
Well Done Prasidh & Narine…. Superbbb…. Great Comeback….#KKRHaiTaiyaar vs #SRH
— Rohit Jaiswal (@rohitjswl01) May 19, 2018
Prasidh Krishna 🔥
What a performance ! #SRHvKKR— Abhishek ✨ (@ImAbhishek7_) May 19, 2018
Very well bowled Prasidh. Brainy stuff. Good ball control with variations. RCB's loss is KKR's gain.
— Makarand Waingankar (@wmakarand) May 19, 2018
Excellent comeback guys!
Prasidh prasidh hogaya👏
Welldone champ💜🤘#SRHvKKR— Mursalin Chaus (@mursalinch1197) May 19, 2018
Prasidh Krishna is very well find from KKR.
He is future of Indian bowling Attack, hope so.. Great find# ViVO IPL 2018.— Pradeep Giri (@putush2010) May 19, 2018
https://twitter.com/ab1r_khan/status/997884817147645952
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Prasidh Krishna is very well find from KKR.
He is future of Indian bowling Attack, hope so.. Great find# ViVO IPL 2018.— Pradeep Giri (@putush2010) May 19, 2018
Amazing bowling spell bowled by Prasidh Krishna who took 4 wickets in his 4 overs spell and considered only 30 runs. Brilliant bowling spell bowled by him. #KKRvSRH #VIVOIPL2018 #IPL2018
— Parvesh Kaushal (@kaushal_parvesh) May 19, 2018
