Karnataka clinched the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy (domestic T20 tournament) by beating Tamil Nadu with a margin of just 1-run in a thrilling final held in Surat on Sunday (December 1).
Needing 13 in the final over, Ravichandran Ashwin smashed Krishnappa Gowtham for two successive fours to bring the equation down to just five runs off the last four balls. As soon as he hit the two boundaries, Ashwin was seen shouting and punching the air in delight.
However, there was another twist in the tale as Ashwin failed to connect the next two balls and scored only 1 run from it. In the penultimate delivery, Vijay Shankar got run out while going for an impossible second run and then Gowtham conceded just a single on the final ball to hand Karnataka a thrilling victory.
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As if the demoralizing defeat wasn’t enough, netizens trolled Ashwin after the match for his premature celebration. They compared his antics with Bangladesh’s Mushfiqur Rahim, who had done the same during the 2016 T20 World Cup clash against India.
Here are some of the tweets:
