Pat Cummins smashed the joint-fastest fifty within the historical past of the Indian Premier League to assist Kolkata Knight Riders beat Mumbai Indians by 5 wickets on the Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium in Pune on Wednesday.
Cummins smashed 56 from 15 balls, together with 35 runs in what turned out to be the final over of the match off Daniel Sams – which turned out to be the second-most costly over in IPL – with a strike price of 373.33. The Australian’s blistering fifty was lased with 4 fours and 6 sixes.
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Cummins equalled KL Rahul’s report of the quickest fifty, by way of ball confronted, which he managed towards Delhi Capitals again in 2018.
The subsequent greatest is from KKR’s Yusuf Pathan towards SunRisers Hyderabad as he reached hello fifty in simply 15 in Kolkata, 2014 and KKR’s Sunil Narine additionally obtained to his fifty in 15 balls towards Royal Challengers Bangalore in Bengaluru, 2017.
Cummins has, in truth, has had fairly a run towards MI in his final three outings, with scores of 33 from 12 balls, 53 not out from 36 balls, each final yr and now his 15-ball 56.
At the post-match press presentation, Cummins mentioned he himself was stunned together with his batting.
“I most likely suppose I’m most stunned by that innings. I’m glad that it got here off. I used to be considering of getting a swing if it was in my space. Wasn’t attempting to overthink it. Very satisfying to do it on my first sport this season. Was simply attempting to pepper the shorter boundary. The arduous factor after an enormous public sale is that there are quite a lot of adjustments from final yr. It’s a very good mixture of expertise on the market and fairly relaxed with the boys,” he said.
In his last over with the ball, he was smashed by Keiron Pollard for 23 runs as he ended with figures of 49 for 2 wickets from his four overs.
KKR skipper also revealed, at the post-match press presentation, that Cummins could hardly get bat to ball in the nets just the daybefore.
“Extraordinary! I couldn’t believe the way he (Cummins) was hitting the ball. Because yesterday in the nets, he was getting bowled now and then, I was batting in the nets beside him then,” Shreyas mentioned.
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