Kolkata Knight Riders produced an emphatic all-round present on Thursday towards Royal Challengers Bangalore, blowing aside the Faf du Plessis-led facet by 81 runs. Reeling at 89/5 at one time limit, the Knight Riders noticed a present of fireworks by ‘bowling all-rounder’ Shardul Thakur who smoked 68 runs off simply 29 balls whereas orchestrating a 109-run stand with Rinku Singh for the sixth wicket. Because of this, the hosts put 204 runs on the board. As Shardul drew plaudits for his heroics on social media, a ‘viral’ outdated tweet of Virat Kohli additionally resurfaced. (LSG vs SRH Live Blog | IPL 2023 Points Table)
It wasn’t the primary time Shardul confirmed how nicely he can do with the bat. The all-rounder has produced some fantastic cameos with the bat for the Indian group as nicely, notably in Take a look at cricket. On most of these events, Kohli was Shardul’s teammate. Nevertheless, this time, the 2 stood at reverse ends.
Virat’s tweet that resurfaced was none aside from the well-known ‘Tula Maanla re Thakur’.
Tula maanla re Thakur @imShard pic.twitter.com/fw9z3dZ8Zi
— Virat Kohli (@imVkohli) December 23, 2019
The which means of the phrase ‘Tula Maanla re Thakur’ is “Hat’s off to you Thakur”. The unique submit was tweeted after Shardul performed an vital function in India’s win over West Indies again in December 2019.
Talking of his personal efficiency, Shardul admitted that he did not know precisely how he was in a position to do what he did towards the Royal Challengers.
“I do not even know the place it got here from however wanting on the scorecard at the moment, everybody would have thought we’re struggling. However your unconscious thoughts takes over. You additionally need to have expertise to try this on the larger stage, however we additionally work exhausting within the nets. There’s a interval the place we will slog it within the nets. The teaching employees do the throwdowns, and provides us the choice of range-hitting. And the pitches – they at all times go well with the batsmen, do not they?
“Suyash bowled exceptionally nicely, and we all know the standard Sunil and Varun have. They’ve enjoyable, take wickets. This was an ideal da,” he mentioned on the post-match presentation ceremony.
With the win, KKR at the moment are positioned third within the factors desk, having gained one recreation and misplaced one.
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