Lucknow Super Giants vs Mumbai Indians ke IPL 2025 encounter mein ek aisa moment aaya jo shayad fans kabhi nahi bhoolenge. Jab 24 runs chahiye the 7 balls par, Tilak Varma ko achanak ‘retire out’ kar diya gaya aur unki jagah Mitchell Santner ko bheja gaya. Is decision se Suryakumar Yadav dugout mein visibly shocked nazar aaye.
T20 cricket mein tactical decisions naya nahi hai, lekin ye move kuch zyada hi bold lag raha tha. Tilak us waqt 25 runs par batting kar rahe the 23 balls mein, lekin unse boundaries nahi lag rahi thi. Jaisa hi woh wapas aaye, SKY ka reaction dekhne layak tha — nafrat nahi, lekin disappointment clearly dikh raha tha.
“Sky’s sad reaction for Tilak Verma when they made him retired out.💔💔 It will truly dent the Confidence of Tilak Varma 🥺”
— Radha (@Rkc1511165) April 5, 2025
Head coach Mahela Jayawardene ne turant Suryakumar ke paas jaa kar unse baat ki, lekin SKY utne convince nahi lage. Is baat ka video viral ho gaya hai social media par, aur fans divided dikh rahe hain.
Replacement player Mitchell Santner ne pehle ball par 2 runs liye, lekin final over mein captain Hardik Pandya ne unhe strike nahi di jab tak game almost khatam nahi ho gaya. Last ball par Santner ne dot ball khela aur MI match 12 runs se haar gaya — unki chauthi defeat in paanch matches mein.
Pandya aur Jayawardene ka stance
“It was obvious. We needed some hits. In cricket, some of those days come. When you try but it doesn’t come off,”
— Hardik Pandya, post-match presentation
“I waited till the last few overs hoping that because he spent some time there so he should have been able to get that hit out of the way but I just felt that at the end I just needed someone fresh to go and he was struggling,”
— Mahela Jayawardene, press conference
“When these things happen in cricket and not nice to take him out but I had to do that, it was a tactical decision at that point,”
— Jayawardene continued
SKY ne kiya sparkle apne 100th match mein
Apne 100th match ke liye field par aaye Suryakumar Yadav ne batting mein dhamaka kiya — 67 runs from 43 balls, with 9 boundaries aur ek chakke ke saath. Unka wicket 17th over mein gira jab Avesh Khan ne unhe slower ball se out kiya.
Fans aur experts ab is decision ko lekar divided hain. Kya Tilak ko retire out karna sahi tha ya yeh ek blunder tha? Ek cheez pakki hai — MI ka dugout drama abhi lamba chalega!
