Ruturaj Gaikwad enthralling his home crowd was anticipated by a capacity crowd at the Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium on Sunday. But the Maharashtra cricket connoisseurs were also looking forward to another intra-Maharashtra mini-battle later on during Chennai Super Kings’ face-off versus Sunrisers Hyderabad.
They had to wait till the sixth over into the chase. And the all-Pune one-on-one lasted a solitary ball. Rahul Tripathi, arguably the most successful IPL cricketer from Pune so far, marked his guard, Mukesh Choudhary bowled a perfect short ball that shaped in, Tripathi attempted an upper-cut straight into the palms of Simrajeet Singh at short-third.
Choudhary heaved an ecstatic scream while Tripathi continued to shake his head en route his long way back to the change room, even stomping his fist onto the bat while crossing the rope in agony.
