“Loving Rajasthan Royals this year”: Michael Vaughan expects RR to go all the way as Kuldeep Sen thumps Marcus Stoinis is thrilling last over finish

Dixit Bhargav | 10/04/2022
"Loving Rajasthan Royals this year": Michael Vaughan expects RR to go all the way as Kuldeep Sen thumps Marcus Stoinis is thrilling last over finish

Kuldeep Sen thumps Marcus Stoinis: An unexciting match was converted into a cliffhanger at the Wankhede Stadium tonight.

During the 20th match of the ongoing 15th season of the Indian Premier League between Rajasthan Royals and Lucknow Super Giants at the Wankhede Stadium, Rajasthan Royals beat Lucknow Super Giants by 3 runs to become the table-topper team.

Chasing a 166-run target, Super Giants lacked behind for a large part of their innings on the back of losing captain KL Rahul (0) and all-rounder Krishnappa Gowtham (0) on the first two deliveries of the match.

In addition to a lacklustre batting display, LSG also raised quite a few eyebrows due to a strange batting order. A consequence of the same was one of their acquired players in Marcus Stoinis batting at No. 8 in his first match of the season.

Needing 60 runs to win the match from four overs, Stoinis did try hard to secure a victory with his 38* (17) comprising of two fours and four sixes but it wasn’t to be as IPL debutant Kuldeep Sen defended 15 runs in the last over.

While Stoinis did hit 10 runs off the last two balls of the match, an inexperienced but calm and composed 25-year old Sen bowling three dot balls in a row to Stoinis had all but won the match for RR.

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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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