CSK vs PBKS: Pooran’s distress; KL tempts destiny towards Jadeja; Shami will get an earful & Swann’s worst nightmare

Chennai Super Kings beat Punjab Kings by 6 wickets to register their first win of IPL 2021.

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Pooran simply can’t pull it off
STUNNED
Poor Nicholas Pooran. Two innings, two pull photographs and two geese. Just a few days in the past, he went mistiming a slower short-one down leg facet however Chetan Sakaria turned Clark Kent’s alter-ego at quick high-quality leg. This time round, Shardul Thakur didn’t have to maneuver an inch at lengthy leg. Pooran will need to have seen Deepak Chahar conjuring loopy outswingers and maybe didn’t count on a pointy pacy bouncer.
Eyes shut, head yanked off line, he waved his bat up like a face protect. The digicam panned to the dug out the place coach Anil Kumble sat shell-shocked. Chahar jogged in direction of the catcher, all nonchalant and funky, earlier than he did a neat little fist-pump to rejoice his shock-and-awe alternative of a weapon.
– Sriram Veera
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Not fairly Captain Cool
ANGER
Maybe it was captaincy pangs, or that he was nonetheless hungover by a shoddy efficiency with the bat, Punjab Kings captain KL Rahul was an unusually offended man. Normally a peaceful and composed presence behind the stumps, even within the face of adversity, Rahul misplaced his mood on multiple event.
Poor Mohammad Shami was typically on the receiving finish, not as a result of he bowled listlessly however he didn’t attraction spiritedly after rapping batsmen on the pads. It occurred twice in his first over, however Shami, realising that the ball was simply crusing over the stumps, didn’t hassle to attraction. It angered Rahul, who implored Shami to attraction, and as soon as even requested him if he needs to evaluate.
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When the ball missed the sting, he would get desperately excited even when the bowler was totally disinterested. Those who misfielded or failed to evaluate a catch received an earful. One of these days when his eyes had been greatest averted. He couldn’t be blamed; his group was defending a meagre 106 runs.
– Sandip G
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Rahul forgets Jadeja’s on the prowl
BRAIN FADE
By now, batsmen ought to know higher than to danger their wicket with Ravindra Jadeja anyplace close to the ball within the area. Even earlier than he comes on to bowl or bat, he ensures credit score factors on the stability sheet.
KL Rahul has been Jadeja’s teammate within the Indian line-up, however nonetheless tried a dangerous enterprise within the third over. With Punjab Kings already one down and extra considerably, 41-year-old Chris Gayle on the different finish, the transfer didn’t have a lot going for it. Add to it the identification of the fielder at quick cowl and it might properly qualify as a mind fade.

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As Rahul referred to as the reluctant Gayle for a run, Jadeja pounced on the ball and scored a direct hit on the striker’s finish. The Punjab Kings skipper compounded his error in judgment by not placing his physique on the road, because the dive by no means got here.
It wasn’t a one-off present from Jadeja within the area both. Soon, he was diving full-length to his proper to seize a low probability supplied by Gayle, and within the twentieth over took a not-as-easy-as-it-looks skier to finish Shahrukh Khan’s resistance.
Four overs for 19 runs with the ball additionally proved as soon as once more why Jadeja is any captain’s delight.
– Tushar Bhaduri
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Swann up-clothes
GRIN & BARE-IT
“I have to walk into bat and I am completely naked,” thus spoke Graeme Swann on air within the dug-out apropos nothing of what was unfolding in entrance of them. Luckily, he had prefaced it by saying, “Do you know my worst cricket nightmare?”
Dominic Cork, the co-commentator, turned away his head in mock disgust. Swann, totally clothed within the studio, tugged at him and endured, “Do you know who was the England captain shouting and screaming at me? (Even as he was frantically trying to find his clothes).”
Corks supplied, “Mike Atherton? ” Swann mentioned “No, no, Nasser Hussain”. Cork got here again with this gem: “Why would you even want to tell this to anyone?!”
– Sriram Veera