Cricket: Ravindra Jadeja equals IPL record with mammoth 37-run over
26 Apr, 2021 12:20 AM
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Ravindra Jadeja s batting rampage secured a record-equaling 37 runs off the last over before taking 3-13 with the ball as Chennai Super Kings beat Royal Challengers Bangalore by 69 runs in the Indian Premier League on Monday.
Delhi Capitals later joined Chennai and Bangalore at the top of the leaderboard on eight points after beating Sunrisers Hyderabad in the first Super Over of the season.
At Mumbai, Bangalore finally lost a game after winning four in a row as Jadeja equaled Chris Gayle s IPL record, set against Kochi Tuskers Prasanth Parameswaran during the 2011 edition of the IPL. But it was easily the most expensive 20th over, beating the previous record of 30.
26 Apr 2021 / 09:00 H.
MUMBAI: Ravindra Jadeja
(pix) smashed a record-equalling 37 runs in an over, including five sixes, and claimed three wickets with the ball as Chennai Super Kings spectacularly ended Royal Challenger Bangalore’s unbeaten start to the Indian Premier League on Sunday.
Boosted by Jadeja’s antics, Chennai reached 191 for four and then kept Bangalore to 121 for nine to knock Virat Kohli’s side off the top of the table.
Bangalore won their first four games of the season but were stunned by Jadeja’s final-over blitz, which equalled the IPL record of 37 runs in one over hit by West Indies star Chris Gayle for Bangalore in 2011.
A leading Indian newspaper group suspended coverage of the
Indian Premier League on Sunday, calling the glitzy cricket tournament commercialism gone crass and incongruous as a record-breaking pandemic surge grips the country.
Express Publications said in a front-page editorial of its flagship English-language daily, the New Indian Express, that the paper was halting reporting on the Twenty20 event until a semblance of normalcy is restored .
The Morning Standard and the Sunday Standard two other English-language newspapers in their stable shared the same editorial.
The money-spinning event being held behind closed doors and running to May 30 is hosted by the world s richest and most powerful cricket board and enjoys huge popularity among the country s sports fans.