What a difference for a year in the Indian Premier (IPL). To become the team to hunt the highest target in the history of the IPL in 2024, the kings of Punjab became the team to defend the lowest total of the league this year, moreover, against the same side – Kolkata Knight Riders. The Knight Riders led by Ajinkya Rahane did not reach the objective of 112 points despite courageous efforts by Angkrish Raghuvanshi and Andre Russell. In the end, it was the Punjab led by Shreyas Iyer who triumphed, thanks to the transport to 4 nurses from Yuzvendra Chahal.
On a spicy ground which offered a variable rebound to quisors, the two sets of strikers had trouble scoring races, producing a thriller with a low score which fell into history books. As the match ended, Rahane and his counterpart shreyas shake hands, the first admitting that his team’s shot unit was pathetic day.
“Kya Faltu hits Kari Humne (what a disastrous striking effort of us),” apparently said Rahane while the two were shaking hands after the match.
Looked at it #PBKSVKKR Game and caught this little funny while Shreyas and Rahane shake hands at the end. In a manner of self-depreciation, Rahane seems to tell Shreyas in marathi: (we have played terrible, we do not know) pic.twitter.com/bnkc7txgbu
– (Nikhil Ghanekar) (@nghanekar) April 15, 2025
Rahane’s dismissal was labeled by many as the revolutionary moment of the match. The KKR skipper received LBW while trying to sweep Yuzvendra Chahal. Although the referee on the ground has raised the finger while the ball was hit Rahane’s back leg, it was discovered later that the impact was outside. Therefore, if Rahane had revised the appeal, it would not have been given.
“As a striker, I thought that I could save criticism for later. It should not happen that I take an opinion and that I lose it, so we only find ourselves a review,” said Rahane at the post-match press conference. “Communication between the two drummers [him and Raghuvanshi] was not so clear. If someone clearly tells you that the impact can be released or that he can miss, you take an opinion as a dough.
“But generally, the drummers in front of you, you think of what they say. Communication was not so clear:” Maybe that could be the referee’s call, maybe it could strike. “This is why I did not take a criticism.
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