Punjab Kings and Rajasthan Royals are locking horns in the 32nd match of the Indian Premier League 2021. Both teams are currently relishing in the bottom half of the points table and are looking to revive their campaign in the second leg of the season.
KL Rahul won the toss and opted to bowl first in the quest to take his team back to the winning ways. Punjab Kings named two debutants in Aiden Markram and Adil Rashid while Chris Gayle misses to be in the playing XI on his birthday.
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PKBS restricted RR to 185 in 20 overs. KL Rahul and Mayank Agarwal came out to open the innings and gave their team a flying start. Both players played shots and showed intent to chase the target as early as possible.
Rajasthan Royals were all over the place in the field. Rahul got three lifelines inside the powerplay as RR fielders kept dropping his catch. The first instance came in the second over when Evin Lewis dropped him.
Riyan Parag was the culprit the second time when he dropped a catch which he grabbed at one point. Chetan Sakariya dropped the third catch in the sixth over off Mustafizur Rehman. This is looking like Rahul’s day as he is living a charmed life in the middle.
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Meanwhile, riding on his luck, Rahul raced to 3,000 IPL runs when he hit successive sixes against Chetan Sakariya. He reached to the milestone in 80th innings making him the second-fastest to reach the milestone just behind Chris Gayle, who did it in 75 innings.
Twitter was buzzing with these many dropped catches and criticized RR fielder for giving too many lives to PKBS skipper.
Here is how Twitter reacted;
KL Rahul has been dropped eight times in #IPL2021 – four times by RR. No other player has been dropped more than four times this season.#PBKSvRR
— Cricbuzz (@cricbuzz) September 21, 2021
https://twitter.com/kamaalrkhan/status/1440358146833195012?s=20
Last time K L RAHUL was dropped thrice in an IPL game he scored 132* 😅
Which is the highest score by an Indian batsman in IPL history 🔥#KLRahul #RRvsPBKS #PBKSvsRR#PBKSvsRR— Debojit Nath (@nathdebojit24) September 21, 2021
https://twitter.com/Prathamesh177/status/1440357876812247047?s=20
#RR ji catches tu pakadne padenge – 6 overs – 3 catches that too of @klrahul11 – it is #Criminal #RRvsPBKS
— Nitin Khanna (@alllrounderrr) September 21, 2021
A cat has NINE lives, so far in a span of 19 balls, KL Rahul has had THREE!! 😅
Just uncatchable!! Butter fingers from #RR.#IPL2021 #PBKSvRR @AMP86793444
— Dr. Shubham Misra 🧠⚛️🇮🇳🇺🇸 (@Shubham_Neuro) September 21, 2021
KL Rahul is having some luck night or #RR is not in a mood to take Rahul wicket😂🤣🤣 #IPL2021 #RRvsPBKS
— MenaceToSociety (@6kaif9) September 21, 2021
Isiliye bottom 3 me he RR
— Golu Raftar (@AraftarGolu) September 21, 2021
Isiliye bottom 3 me he RR
— Golu Raftar (@AraftarGolu) September 21, 2021
https://twitter.com/sar6sm/status/1440358108417560577?s=20
