This IPL season has already been a bouquet full of surprises. Surprisingly, all time favorites like Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) were out of form and the occasional teams like KKR and RPS are showing some innumerable game ways. It must be believed that this season is full on bowlers’ side, it is their time, we have already noticed some extensively impeccable bowling performances from a number of bowlers.
Surprisingly, this season has already got three bowlers who took three consecutive wickets in their respective innings, there are few IPL seasons which don’t even have a single hat-trick, and the three hat-tricks in IPL within this short span of time, makes this one, a standout.
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This recent match between Rising Pune Supergiant (RPS) and Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) has once again proved that this season is all the bowlers glare. The brilliant bowling from its bowlers at Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium, Hyderabad, helped the RPS team in clinching the match with a much awaited 12 runs margin.
Peculiarly, it was RPS’ bowler Jaydev Unadkat’s show so far, he took three vital wickets in the final over of the match to end with figures of 5/30. His fair spell ensured the RPS on winning the fourth match. However, defeating the Hyderabadi team at the home ground is something that is definitely acknowledgeable. Unadkat today also completed his second five-wicket haul in T20 cricket, as well 100 wickets in the Indian Premier League.
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Coming to the details of his yesterday’s best, Unadkat started off his bowling with a dot ball, followed by taking the wicket of Bipul Sharma which was expertly caught by Ben Stokes after Bipul slogged it to square leg. The next ball he got the wicket of Afghan sensation Rashid Khan. And the third one was Bhuvaneshwar Kumar’s wicket.
Unadkat bowled to Bhuvaneshwar Kumar who looked to hit it away from him but got it off the splice of the bat. The Ball lobbed into the hands of Manoj Tiwary at extra cover who ran in a few paces to take it comfortably thereby completing his hattrick. In addition to his impressive hat-trick, Unadkat bagged his second five-wicket bait in T20 format cricket and 100 wickets in his whole IPL career.