IPL 2023
Vijay Shankar Everyone In Awe With His Onslaught Against KKR
By CricShots - Apr 9, 2023 6:06 pm
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Indian cricket has always struggled to produce elite fast-bowling all-rounders, with the likes of Vijay Shankar and Shardul Thakur failing to do much at the international level. However, after Thakur’s sizzling knock against the Royals Challengers Bangalore (RCB), it was Shankar, who reminded everyone of his potential with his onslaught against Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) in the slog overs.

Vijay Shankar
Vijay Shankar came out all guns balzing against KKR

Gujarat Titans (GT) received some impetus later in their innings to reach a mammoth total of 204/4 against KKR at the Narendra Modi stadium in Ahmedabad on Sunday afternoon. The charge was led by the unexpected blitzkrieg knock from Vijay Shankar who emerged out of the blue to showcase his shotmaking prowess which was explosive enough to keep even David Miller quiet on the other end in his three-ball stay.

The all-rounder from Tamil Nadu saved his best for last as the Titans capitalized on KKR’s unusual choice to give the last over to Shardul Thakur instead of Umesh Yadav, a move that cost the visitors 20 runs.

Vijay Shankar got the strike on the second ball of the over and wasted no time in connecting the ball well as Thakur bowled a slow and wide delivery. However, the bowler did not have the same fortune on the succeeding deliveries as his counterpart’s destruction began with a clean strike over deep midwicket off a full and slightly wide delivery, arguably the shot of the day.

Having thus brought up his half-century off just 21 deliveries, Vijay Shankar seemed to further grow in confidence and dispatched the next delivery over long-on with timing befitting of Gods. The 32-year-old wasn’t done yet as he finished off the saga with another strike over wide long-on albeit it only just made it over the rope the third time around. Even in the 19th over by Lockie Ferguson, Shankar helped GT to score 25 runs with the help of couple of boundaries and a six.

Here is the video of the onslaught from Vijay Shankar:

 

Vijay Shankar eventually ended unbeaten on 63 off 24 deliveries, laced with four boundaries and five maximums, thereby sending the Twitterati berserk.

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