​ GT vs KKR(IPL2023): Rinku Singh gives Kolkata a thrilling win.

Highlights:

• The sixteenth edition of the Indian Premier League T20 Cricket Tournament.
• Kolkata Knight Riders shocked the host Gujarat Titans.
• Rinku Singh hit 5 consecutive sixes in the last over for hits Knight Riders.
• Rinku Singh gives Kolkata a thrilling win.

Gujarat Titans vs Kolkata Knight (GT VS KKR)Highlights: Last time champions Gujarat Titans team took a bold step towards retaining the trophy this time too by winning the first two matches. However, in their third match too, in front of the home crowd, they suffered a surprise defeat by 3 wickets against the visiting Kolkata Knight Riders. KKR batsman Rinku Singh robbed the Titans of victory with 5 consecutive sixes in the last over.

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Ahmedabad: Kolkata Knight Riders' left-handed batsman Rinku Singh literally agrees with the saying that the idol is small but the fame is big. Chasing an impossible target of 205 runs, Kolkata Knight Riders were stunned by a hat-trick of wickets by opposing captain Rashid Khan in a high-scoring match at the Narendra Modi Stadium here on Sunday.

However, the young batsman Rinku Singh, who created a miracle for KKR in the last over, was excited by hitting five consecutive sixes in 5 balls against the fast Yash Dayal. Gujarat Titans snatched away the victory from KKR with an extraordinary batting performance. He became the first batsman to hit 5 consecutive sixes in the last over during the run chase.

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Rashid Khan took a hat-trick of wickets and dismissed KKR's top batsmen Andre Russell, Sunil Narine, and Shardul Thakur in consecutive deliveries. Nobody could have predicted that KKR would win after this.

However, in the last over, the calculations turned upside down. Facing the first ball, Umesh Yadav took 1 run and gave a strike to the batter Rinku Singh. Rinku Singh, who swung the bat with extraordinary confidence, hit left-arm medium pacer Yash Dayal, who plays Ranji cricket for Uttar Pradesh, in the last five balls, hitting sixes over long-on, long off, covers, straight through the wicket and towards square leg to seal victory for KKR. Rinku scored an unbeaten 48 runs off 21 balls with 1 four and 6 sixes and won the Man of the Match award.

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Sai Sudarshan and Vijay Shankar scored half-centuries each

Sai Sudarshan and Vijay Shankar made a good partnership. This pair, who did not allow more dot balls, continuously scored one and two runs to increase the team's total. Scored boundaries every now and then and hit big shots too. Meanwhile, Sai Sudarshan blasted another half-century. After scoring 53 runs, he was dismissed by Narine.

Vijay Shankar, who exploded in the death overs, scored 63 runs in just 24 balls with 4 fours and 5 explosive sixes. Back-to-back three sixes in the last over took the Hits team's total to two hundred.

Rashid Khan Hatrics:

Rashid Khan, the captain against Kolkata, changed the entire momentum of the match by taking a hat-trick of wickets. He completed the hat-trick by dismissing Andre Russell, Sunil Narine, and then Shardul Thakur in the first three balls of the over.

Shardul is out by LBW but Russell and Narine are caught. Through this, Rashid Khan achieved the first hat-trick wicket of IPL 2023. Elsewhere, Joseph and Mohammad Shami took 1 wicket each. 

Yash Dayal became an expensive bowler

With 29 runs needed from the last over, skipper Rashid Khan was bowled by Yash Dayal. Rashid was confident that he would impose a ban on KKR. However, Dayal conceded 31 runs in the last over which led to his team's defeat. Also, he conceded 69 runs in the four overs bowled and became an expensive bowler. It became the second costliest over in IPL history.

Batsmen who hit 5 sixes in one over in IPL

5 - Chris Gayle (RCB) vs Rahul Sharma (Pune Warriors), Bangalore, 2012

5 - Rahul Tewatia (RR) vs Sheldon Cottrell (Punjab Kings), Sharjah, 2020

5 - Ravindra Jadeja (CSK) vs Harshal Patel (RCB), Mumbai, 2021

5 - Marcus Stoinis and Jason Holder (LSG) vs Shivam Mavi (KKR), Pune, 2022

5 - Rinku Singh (KKR) vs Yash Dayal (Gujarat Titans), Ahmedabad, 2023

The highest run scored in the last over in IPL history

31 runs, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Gujarat Titans, Ahmedabad 2023.

23 runs, Rising Pune Supergiants vs Punjab Kings, Vizag 2016.

22 runs, Sunrisers Hyderabad against. Gujarat Titans, Mumbai 2022.

In an IPL inning, the most runs were allowed by a bowler

0/70 - Basil Thampi (SRH vs RCB), Bangalore 2018

0/69 - Yash Dayal (GT vs KKR), Ahmedabad today

0/66 - Ishant Sharma (SRH vs CSK), Hyderabad 2013

0/66 - Mujeeb ur Rahman (KXIP vs SRH), Hyderabad 2019

0/65 - Umesh Yadav (DC vs RCB), Delhi, 2013

He scored a hat-trick against KKR

Makhaya Ntini (CSK), Kolkata - 2008

Praveen Tambe (RR), Ahmedabad - 2014

Yajuvendra Chahal (RR), Mumbai (Brabourne) - 2022

Rashid Khan (GT), Ahmedabad - 2023

Playing XI details of these teams

GT XI: Shubman Gill, Wriddhiman Saha (wicketkeeper), Sai Sudarshan, Vijay Shankar, David Miller, Rahul Tewatia, Rashid Khan (captain), Alzari Joseph, Mohammad Shami, Joshua Little, Yash Dayal.

KKR XI: Venkatesh Iyer, Rehmanullah Gurbaz (wicketkeeper), N Jagadeesan, Nitish Rana (captain), Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Shardul Thakur, Sunil Narine, Lucky Ferguson, Umesh Yadav, Varun Chakraborty.

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