Rajasthan Royals (RR) pacer Kartik Tyagi has been earning a lot of praise from the fans and the cricket fraternity for his superb last over of their IPL 2021 game against Punjab Kings (PBKS) on Tuesday (September 21) at Dubai International Cricket Stadium.
With PBKS requiring four runs to win in the final over, Tyagi bowled as many as five dot balls, as well as, picked the prized scalps of Deepak Hooda (0) and a well-set Nicholas Pooran (34) to help Rajasthan Royals (RR) script a thrilling two-run win.
Following, Tyagi’s wonderful bowling, the former England cricketer Graeme Swann and former India wicketkeeper-batsman Parthiv Patel lavished praise on RR’s young pace bowler.
Having impressed by the 20-year-old’s skill, Swann has described Tyagi's final over against PBKS as one of the greatest spells he has ever seen while Parthiv said he is short of words to laud the youngster for executing the yorkers brilliantly and winning the game for RR against PBKS.
Swann said on Star Sports after the match: “That is quite possibly the greatest last over that I have seen. Tyagi bowled an absolute stonking over. Two wickets, one run, defending only four. I’ll take my hat off to him. The third ball of the over was a brilliant one for me.”
The commentator further added, “Very full and then the caught behind happened. When the right-hander came in, he saw it and stepped across. That could have been a wide but not for me because the batsman stepped wide and followed him. Three off the last ball and now the pressure was on and that was an absolutely perfectly executed yorker to wrap up the game.”
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Meanwhile, Parthiv said, “Every time now when there would be 4-5 runs needed in one over, we are going to say ‘Can we pull off a Kartik Tyagi’? When you need only 4 off the last over, the first couple of balls you will wait ‘let’s see what happened.”
He concluded, “But as we have been talking about the execution, the way he nailed those yorkers. You have to give him credit. We are short of words. I cannot believe what I saw today. The execution from him was top class.”
(Star Sports inputs)
