“What a ball”: Irfan Pathan delighted with Arshdeep Singh’s delivery to dismiss Shubman Gill in IPL 2021

Dixit Bhargav | 01/10/2021
"What a ball": Irfan Pathan delighted with Arshdeep Singh's delivery to dismiss Shubman Gill in IPL 2021

Arshdeep Singh’s delivery: The Punjabi fast bowler continued his top form by handing his team with an early breakthrough in Dubai.

During the 45th match of the ongoing 14th season of the Indian Premier League between Kolkata Knight Riders and Punjab Kings in Dubai, Punjab Kings fast bowler Arshdeep Singh drew first blood after captain Lokesh Rahul won the toss and chose to field.

It all happened on the second delivery of the third over when Kolkata Knight Riders opening batter Shubman Gill (7) was absolutely clueless against an in-swinging delivery from the left-arm bowler.

Wanting to drive Arshdeep off a delivery which pitched at an apt length and swung enough into the batter to deceive him, all Gill could do was inside the ball on to the stumps to walk back to the pavilion after scoring a boundary.

Introduced into the attack as a first-change bowler, all it required for Arshdeep to pick a wicket was a couple of deliveries. Playing his 10th match of this season, Arshdeep has 14 wickets to his name which have come at an average of 17.57, an economy rate of 7.60 and a strike rate of 13.8.

While the 22-year old player has become the joint-highest wicket-taker for PBKS, he is also the joint fourth-highest wicket-taker in IPL 2021.

Despite losing an early wicket, Knight Riders have recovered pretty well as Venkatesh Iyer and Rahul Tripathi have put together more than 50 runs for the second wicket at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium.

Irfan Pathan delighted with Arshdeep Singh’s delivery to dismiss Shubman Gill

Former India all-rounder Irfan Pathan, who had affected similar dismissals in his playing days, took to social media platform Twitter to laud Arshdeep’s bowling tonight.

Readers must note that this is not the first time when Pathan has been wax lyrical about the Punjabi pacer. Pathan had also praised Arshdeep when he had picked career-best T20 figures against Rajasthan Royals and dismissed RR captain Sanju Samson to win a match in the first leg.

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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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