On the very first ball of 11th over of Punjab Kings’ innings against Sunrisers Hyderabad in an IPL 2023 game, tearaway pacer Umran Malik broke the bails while castling Harpreet Brar.
After Hyderabad got their first victory — an eight-wicket win, top-order batter Rahul Tripathi, who played a fantastic knock, gifted the broken bails to Umran.
In the match, the speedster picked 2/32 in his four overs as Hyderabad restricted Punjab to 143/9, before Tripathi made 74 not out to chase down the total in 17.1 overs.
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“Probably, I have broken stumps with tennis balls on a few occasions. But in the IPL this is second or third. I had broken one or two bails in the last IPL. It also happened when I was playing for India. You just keep praying that I get to break bails like this in future,” said Umran in a video posted by the IPL’s official social media accounts.
“Yes, I am happy, I am bowling at the right areas and I will try to bowl slowers and yorkers in death overs. The boundary was shorter at one side, where I thought will lose runs, but captain (Aiden Markram) asked me to bowl in that area so I bowled there. But that created chances of getting wickets. We will continue to work on our plans and give better performance,” he added.