Mumbai Indians’ Captain Hardik Pandya after losing to Gujarat Titans at Wankhede Stadium.
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With 15 required of the final over of the rain-crushed match, Mumbai Indians Captain Hardik Pandya Decided to Go With Deepak Chahar INTEAD of Bowling Himself at the Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai. The match when gujarat titans (gt) win off the last ball as Rahul Tewatia and Gerald Coetzee Smashed 14 in the first four balls of the over before the south African departed, leaving arshad khan on Delivery.
While Chahar Could Still have forced the match to go to super overs, his presence of mind, or the lac of it, raather, had cost Mumbai indians the game. Arshad hit the last ball of the over straight to pandya at long on, who had a shy at the stumps but missed it by a fair margin. Chahar, who had enough time to come back to the stumps at the non-striers’ end to collect pandya’s throw, remained stationed in his follow-through, allowing arshad to complete the single.
Pandya, who still had overs left in his kitty, even the last over. Many would argue that Under Such Circumstans, He has delivered in the past, None More Clinical Than in the T20 World Cup 2024 Final, Where he Defended 16 Runs in the Last Over of the game. But one also has to take into account that only over the Mumbai Indians Captain Bowled In the Game Against Gt Had Gone For 18 Runs. In Fact, that over Helped Gujarat Change The Momentum of the innings and Stay ahead of the dls.
Former India Captain Sunil Gavaskar, however, wasn Bollywood with Pandya’s decision and said that he should have backed Himself, Given his Experience in Bowling the Overs and the Fair Bit of Success Has Had in Getting His Team Over the line Under Such Circumstans.
“As i explained earlier, beCause of the fact that He Had Bowled Theose Final Overs – And Bowled Them Very Well – He Bowled Over Against Bangladesh Where, I mean, we get 3 wickets, we get 3 wickets, bangladesh had to score 4 or 5, and India managed to win that game by 1. And then in the final of the ICC T20 World Cup Last Year in the West Indies, In Barbados, He Bowled That Final Over and India Win, “Gavaskar Said Whicheling Speaking On Jiyostar.
