Bairstow IPL 2021 six: Jonny Bairstow smashes six off Trent Boult; breaks glass of fridge in dugout

Dixit Bhargav | 17/04/2021
Bairstow IPL 2021 six: Jonny Bairstow smashes six off Trent Boult; breaks glass of fridge in dugout

Jonny Bairstow smashes six: The wicket-keeper batsman from Sunrisers Hyderabad played an impact-generating knock tonight.

During the ninth match of the ongoing 14th season of the Indian Premier League between Mumbai Indians and Sunrisers Hyderabad in Chennai, Sunrisers Hyderabad wicket-keeper batsman Jonny Bairstow played a quickfire knock after being promoted to open the batting alongside captain David Warner.

Chasing a 151-run target at the MA Chidambaram Stadium, Bairstow took on the attack against Mumbai Indians fast bowler Trent Boult hitting him for three fours and a six in his second over.

It was on the third delivery of the over that Bairstow hit Boult with a stamp of authority hitting him over his head for a six. With the ball going towards Sunrisers’ dugout, it ended up hitting the refrigerator and breaking its front glass in the process.

In the following over, Bairstow hit a couple of sixes off Mumbai debutant Adam Milne and followed it up with another huge hit against MI all-rounder Krunal Pandya.

Had it not been for a hit wicket dismissal in Pandya’s second over, Bairstow looked set to register his 17th T20 half-century. Having said that, the 31-year old player scored 43 (22) with the help of three fours and four sixes to power his team to a solid start tonight.

After Indians captain Rohit Sharma won the toss and chose to bat, his team scored a below par 150-5 despite a 55-run opening stand between Quinton de Kock (40) and Sharma (32). With bowling figures of 3-0-19-2, Hyderabad all-rounder Vijay Shankar was the pick of their bowlers on the back of his career-best bowling figures.

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Dixit Bhargav

Born and brought up in Pathankot, Dixit Bhargav is an engineering and sports management graduate who works as a Cricket Editor at The SportsRush. Having written more than 10,000 articles across more than five years at TSR, his first cricketing memory dates back to 2002 when former India captain Sourav Ganguly had waved his jersey at the historic Lord’s balcony. What followed for an 8-year-old was an instant adulation for both Ganguly and the sport. The optimist in him is waiting for the day when Punjab Kings will win their maiden Indian Premier League title. When not watching cricket, he is mostly found in a cinema hall watching a Punjabi movie.

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