IPL 2022: Ravichandran Ashwin Narrates Hilarious Story With Devdutt Padikkal
IPL 2022: Rajasthan Royals won a close game against Delhi Capitals. What was an exciting game of cricket turned into a controversy by the end of the game. Ravichandran Ashwin recently narrated a story surrounding the controversy.
Rajasthan Royals had scored a mammoth 222 runs in the first innings and Delhi Capitals were in the chase for the most part of the game. But eventually, they lost the game by 15 runs.
Devdutt Kept Asking Me if Powell Can Hit 6 Sixes: Ravichandran Ashwin
Delhi Capitals needed 36 runs off the last 2 overs. Lalit Yadav and Rovman Powell were on the crease. Prasidh Krishna bowled a maiden over and also got the wicket of Lalit Yadav in the penultimate over of the chase.
Rovman Powell was at the crease in the last over and Obed McCoy was bowling the last over. DC needed a miracle to win the game. And on the first three deliveries, it looked like there was a miracle on the cards as Powell hit 3 sixes on the first three balls of the over.
Ashwin in a video shared on Twitter can be seen narrating an interesting story from the game, “36 runs were required off the last over and you might be thinking about what happened on the ground. I’ll tell you what happened. After Prasidh Krishna bowled a maiden wicket over, I stood beside Sanju Samson at the short-third man and Devdutt Padikkal came.
“I told Padikkal, ‘One short ball would finish things off and we can take a breather. The first ball of the over went for a six. Padikkal came from a point and said, ‘He can’t hit 36 runs, right?”, said Ashwin in the video.
“I said, ‘No way he can because six sixes in an over is very rare.’ The next ball also went for a six. Padikkal again came and said, ‘He can’t hit six sixes, right?’ I said, ‘I think he can’t’.
“While I prayed for a ball to be hit in the air, the third ball went for a six as well. He then came running and said, ‘Should we make it a baby over because I fear he’s gonna hit them”, he further added.
Ashwin himself took two wickets in the game and helped his side contain his previous side.
