Chennai Super Kings all-rounder got the biggest scalp of the night as he dismissed Andre Russell around his legs as the ball crashed into his stumps
Chennai Super Kings all-rounder Sam Curran had a below-par day with the ball as he gave away 58 runs in his four overs and took just one wicket but that one wicket was probably the game-changer for the men in yellow, as it was the crucial scalp of Kolkata Knight Riders' hard-hitting all-rounder Andre Russell.
Russell was in some form on Wednesday evening and his side losing five wickets just inside the powerplay didn't have any effect on him as he started muscling the ball from the outset.
He didn't want to let the powerplay overs go waste, so he accumulated 14 runs off the remaining four balls of the first six, hitting two fours and a six. After which, wicket-keeper batsman Dinesh Karthik joined him and both started smashing everything.
Russell was particularly severe on Shardul Thakur, hitting three sixes and a four in the 10th over of the innings as the match, which was looking like one-way traffic, was suddenly a box office where Russell was the protagonist. He hit Ravindra Jadeja for a six and brought up his fifty in just 21 balls.
Russell was threatening to take away the game from the CSK's grasp but it was their wonder boy Sam Curran, who did the trick again for the men in yellow, in what was an anti-climatic end to an innings for the ages.
Curran bowled a length ball on the leg-stump line and Russell shuffled across inside the line but decided to let it go thinking that it was a leg-side wide, however, it was not to be as the ball crashed into the topof the leg-stump and the bowler let out a roar to let everyone know that he got the big wicket, and as it turned out the game-changing wicket of the match.
Curran's bluff impressed the fans on Twitter, who went gaga over their youngest Super King. Here are some of the reactions:
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