Rahul Tewatia IPL 2020: Watch Tewatia hits five sixes off Sheldon Cottrell as Rajasthan Royals seal highest IPL chase

Dixit Bhargav | 27/09/2020
Rahul Tewatia IPL 2020: Watch Tewatia hits five sixes off Sheldon Cottrell as Rajasthan Royals seal highest IPL chase

Rahul Tewatia hits five sixes: The all-rounder from Rajasthan Royals put on display an unusual yet effective innings at the Sharjah Cricket Stadium.

During the ninth match of the ongoing 13th season of the Indian Premier League between Kings XI Punjab and Rajasthan Royals in Sharjah, Rajasthan Royals all-rounder Rahul Tewatia scored his maiden IPL half-century as his team sealed the highest-ever chase in the IPL.

Chasing a mammoth 224-run target at the Sharjah Cricket Stadium, Tewatia put on display arguably the most unusual yet effective T20 innings in which he moved from scoring 17 (23) to 53 (31) to bamboozle all fans, commentators and all the players involved.

With Rajasthan needing 51 runs in the last three overs, Tewatia hit five sixes off Sheldon Cottrell’s third over and followed it up with another magnificent hit against Mohammed Shami in the next over.

Royals pacer Jofra Archer getting promoted at No. 6 and hitting a couple of sixes meant that his team required only a couple of runs in the last over. In what was an absolutely mockery of a chase, Rajasthan won a match out of nowhere – something which was unbelievable when Tewatia was finding it hard to get bat on ball.

Before Tewatia, Royals batsman Sanju Samson (85) and captain Steve Smith (50) also contributed with vital half-centuries in a historic match.

Earlier, it was a grand 183-run opening partnership between Kings XI Punjab’s Lokesh Rahul (69) and Mayank Agarwal (106) which played a crucial role in them scoring 223/2 in 20 overs.

Rahul Tewatia hits five sixes

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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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