The 30th match of the IPL 2022 is being played between Rajasthan Royals (RR) and Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) at the Brabourne Stadium in Mumbai. In the 18th over of the first innings, KKR’s Shivam Mavi and Pat Cummins showcased an amazing display of fielding at the boundary by taking a phenomenal tag team catch.
Earlier in the game, KKR skipper, Shreyas Iyer won the toss and chose to bowl first which has been the case in all the matches of the IPL 2022 so far. KKR had one change as they brought in Shivam Mavi for Aman Khan, while Rajasthan made three changes. Trent Boult was back in the XI replacing Jimmy Neesham, Karun Nair replaced Rassie van der Dussen and Obed McCoy made his RR debut as he replaced Kuldeep Sen.
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After many matches, Rajasthan Royals’ openers gave them a terrific start, with mainly Jos Buttler doing the heavy scoring in the powerplay. Padikkal and Buttler added 97 runs in 9.4 overs before Padikkal was bowled by Sunil Narine. Sanju Samson then came to the party and smashed 38 runs in 19 balls with 3 fours and a couple of sixes, but the whole RR innings was about Jos Buttler.
Jos Buttler smashed 50 in 29 balls and reached his second IPL century this season off 59 balls. He got out for 103 in 61 balls, and caught off the bowling of Pat Cummins, but it was an excellent inning. Once Buttler got out, RR batters started throwing their hands at every ball in an effort to gather as many runs as possible. One of these batters was Riyan Parag, who scored 5 runs in 3 balls and was dismissed thanks to an excellent effort from Pat Cummins and assisted by Shivam Mavi.
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On the first ball of the 18th over, Parag tried to smash Narine straight over his head, but Pat Cummins took an excellent running catch from long-off. However, he struggled to keep his balance and threw the ball towards Shivam Mavi who ran in from long on, before falling. Mavi completed the catch one-handed with a jump of his own.
Here is the video of the phenomenal tag team catch between Pat Cummins and Shivam Mavi:
Here is how the fans reacted:
Great work by Pat Cummins and Mavi. pic.twitter.com/P7RYhgjIhi
— Mufaddal Vohra (@mufaddal_vohra) April 18, 2022
What a beauty by pat cummins.#KKRvsRR pic.twitter.com/VfnVotUJCQ
— Shadab Yazdani (@Shadab_Yazdani) April 18, 2022
https://twitter.com/Jitendra0917/status/1516079420427055104?s=20&t=6qCakusMYfkVL0wiTIxX8Q
Magnificent effort from Pat cummins to throw the ball up in the air before touching the boundary! Shivam Mavi got the catch 🔥#KKRvsRR pic.twitter.com/XVh4QB5W3H
— UrMiL07™ (@urmilpatel30) April 18, 2022
2 Catches @patcummins30
Well Done @KKRiders
What a Catch yaar @ShivamMavi23 @iamsrk #KKRvsRR #ShahRukhKhan𓀠 pic.twitter.com/35K6ktwYeS— Faizan Jagirdar (@IJagirdaar) April 18, 2022
Atleast catches pakad kr cummins D11 ka score bada raha hai😭😂 #KKRvsRR
— Saiprasad (@msdian__7781) April 18, 2022
Cummins has taken more catches than overs bowled giving less than 12 runs😭
— It's over (@imeeeww) April 18, 2022