2024-04-13 18:11:30
Mullanpur: The 27th match of the Indian Premier League 2024 was played between Punjab Kings and Rajasthan Royals at the Maharaja Yadvinder Singh International Cricket Stadium in Mullanpur. In this match, Rajasthan Royal captain Sanju Samson surprised everyone with his wicketkeeping skills. He ran out in such an amazing manner that everyone became crazy about him. The video of this amazing skill of Sanju Samson is going viral on social media.
Sanju Samson did an amazing run out
Actually, the 18th over of Punjab Kings’ innings was being bowled by experienced leg spinner Yuzvendra Chahal for Rajasthan Royals. Ashutosh Sharma was on strike on the fifth ball of the over. Sharma pushed the ball into the gap. It looked like he would do a double take. But fielder Tanush Kotian fell on the ball. Seeing this, Ashutosh, standing at the non-striker’s end, refused Liam Livingstone to take the second run.
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However, by the time Livingstone had reached half the pitch. After that, when he tried to reach back to his crease, Tanush had already thrown. But the throw was quite far. But Samson collected the ball brilliantly and threw it falling on the wicket from a distance. It seemed that Livingstone had reached the crease. But when seen on the big screen, everything turned into milk and water. Livingstone was out after scoring 21 runs.
Punjab gave target of 148 runs to RR
Punjab Kings, batting first after losing the toss, put 147 runs on the board for 8 wickets in 20 overs. Ashutosh Sharma scored a stormy 31 runs in 16 balls for the team. Apart from this, Jitesh Sharma also scored 29 runs. Whereas for Rajasthan Royals, Avesh Khan and Keshav Maharaj took 2-2 wickets. Apart from this, Trent Boult, Kuldeep Sen, and Yuzvendra Chahal also got one success each.