Gujarat Titans (GT) are locking horns with Chennai Super Kings (CSK) in the opening game of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2023 at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad. GT batter, Kane Williamson is one of the gun fielders in world cricket who takes some glorious catches. However, during the game, he hurt himself in a brilliant fielding effort to save six runs.
Earlier in the game, GT kipper, Hardik Pandya invited CSK to bat first and Ruturaj Gaikwad wrote the script for the visitors. He has scored a half-century while the wickets are tumbling from the other end. Although Ruturaj’s strokeplay gathered the attention of most of the spectators, Kane Williamson also produced a moment that made cricket fans and especially GT fans react.
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Joshua Little was bowling the 13th over of the innings and Ruturaj was facing the third ball of the over. The bowler bowled a slower delivery but the CSK opener made no mistake in reading the delivery and smacked it over mid-on.
Kane Williamson, who is one of the quality fielders in world cricket was stationed at the position. He leaped at the boundary line and caught the ball in the air. The New Zealand skipper then showed his game awareness throwing the ball inside the boundary line.
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However, when he landed on the ground, Williamson hurt his right knee. The injury was so severe that he was helped to his feet by the physios. Although he was to be taken out of the ground eventually, Williamson saved two runs for his team converting a probable six into four runs.
Here is the video of the brilliant effort from Kane Williamson:
Twitteratis also took note of the incident and expressed mixed reactions on the social media platform. Some of them mourned for the kind of injury Williamson suffered while some criticised him for putting so much on the line to save just two runs.
I think Kane Williamson's injury is pretty serious and might rule him out of IPL
— Vinesh Prabhu (@vlp1994) March 31, 2023
Injuries can't be predicted. But I'm not in favour of them going an extra mile to take one catch and then sit out for 6 months #ipl #KaneWilliamson
— Pooja Bhansali (@pooja_deven) March 31, 2023
Nasty landing for Kane Williamson. Hopefully it's a knock but looks bad right now. But what an attempt that saved 2 runs for his team. #GT #GTvsCSK
— Chirag Gupta ⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️ (@ChiragG14) March 31, 2023
Kane Williamson Me for 15
For 2 runs : marks question pic.twitter.com/uUgsGbhsd3— Shibhhuu (@shibhhuu) March 31, 2023
#KaneWilliamson #IPL2023 pic.twitter.com/HpMB9r6iyC
— Abhinav Jha 🇮🇳 (@abhinavj617) March 31, 2023
Beth Mooney 🤝 Kane Williamson
— Harminder (@21harminder) March 31, 2023
end of kane williamson ipl #IPL2023
— Vinci Da (@aadhadhura) March 31, 2023
Brilliant effort from Kane Williamson! Hope he hasn't done to much damage to his knee #IPL2023
— Matt Ashley (@MattAshley1) March 31, 2023
