The 24th match of the IPL 2019 saw KXIP traveling to Mumbai to face Mumbai Indians in their own den. Mumbai Indians had defeated SRH in their previous encounter and Kings XI Punjab was coming off a win over Sunrisers as well.
Stand-in Mi captain Kieron Pollard won the toss and chose to field first. Siddhesh Lad replaced injured Rohit Sharma. But the match was all about two halves. First-half belonged to Chris Gayle, who smashed, 63 in 36 balls with 7 sixes and 3 fours and added 116 runs for the first wicket with KL Rahul, who owned the second half of the match.
KL Rahul smashed his maiden IPL century in just 63 balls, ending up with 100* with 6 sixes and 6 fours and took KXIP to 197/4 in 20 overs. Last match’s hero Alzarri Joseph went for 22 runs in 2 overs and even Bumrah went for runs in the final over of the innings, but KL Rahul was particularly severe on his mate Hardik Pandya.
Hardik Pandya and KL Rahul became infamous for their appearance on Koffee with Karan and their sexist and crude comments earned them ire of Twitter and were bashed by everyone on every social media platform possible. They were later suspended from the Indian team and had to render apologies for the ban to be postponed.
In the 19th over of the match, bowled by Hardik, KL Rahul stuck into him and hit 3 sixes and one four, scoring 25 runs in total and gave Twitterati some great material, as the folks on Twitter claimed Rahul has exacted revenge from Hardik for getting him into trouble during the Koffee episode.
Here are some of the best tweets:
