Kagiso Rabada: “I’m just glad that all the hard work paid off. We had them under a lot of pressure but good knock from Tilak. [On his pace] The secret is that they are just ramping up the speed guns. I’ve felt good for a while now. I feel everything is working out for the last three games. Some days you bowl a heap of bad stuff and get wickets and some days you bowl well and get runs. I’m just glad it’s going my way a little bit. Bowling with the new ball, you want to get all kinds of dismissals. I think that’s the art of bowling, is controlling length and line. You do that for long enough and you’ll get rewarded.”
9.20pm Well, that was an innings of two halves. Kagiso Rabada was all over Mumbai Indians, and the bottom-placed team were 44 for 3. Naman Dhir and Tilak then helped them stabilise, but Tilak was struggling to get going. But then, after the 14th over, Tilak took off, going 6, 4, 4 against Prasidh and he never looked back. He had the fastest acceleration after 20 balls (where 50 runs or more were scored by a batter after the 20-ball mark) in IPL history, and only the fourth IPL centurion from No. 5 or lower. Whatever the GT bowlers threw at him, he had answers for. And now GT have a tough chase on their hands. Abhijato will be back with you soon for the that.
Prasidh Krishna to Tilak Varma, FOUR, That’s some way to get your maiden IPL century! Swings a short ball over square leg and it’s been an innings of struggle and redemption! He was on 19 off 22, and he finishes unbeaten on 101 off 45! The second timeout break changed everything for him, and he’s managed to single-handedly take Mumbai Indians to a very competitive score!
