5 Most Heart Winning Moments From The Indian Premier League

The Indian Premier League is one of the most loved tournaments around the world. This league is more like a treat for cricket fans. Over the years, the league has given us many brilliant moments to cherish throughout our lives. However, there are a few moments from IPL that stand out.
Here, in this article, we bring you 5 heart touching moments from the Indian Premier League, have a look:
1.CSK winning the trophy after 2 year’s suspension:
For any CSK or MS Dhoni fan, this one is the most heart-touching moments in the history of the Indian Premier League. MS Dhoni led Chennai Super Kings returned back to the league after a suspension period of 2 years and they made sure to return with a bang.

Throughout the season, the players of Chennai Super Kings faced many obstacles. They were trolled and were called as ‘Daddies’ team. The key players of their team got injured. However, they delivered on a big stage and won their third IPL trophy.
2. Dhoni-Ziva celebration:
This happened during the same IPL win of CSK. The father-daughter had their own moment and they left everyone in awe of them.

After the tournament win, MS Dhoni was still typically composed and was posing with his team and the trophy. Dhoni, as always, was standing behind and letting the rest of the team enjoy. This is when he saw his daughter Ziva come running towards him,  Dhoni turned around and a in his arms and gave her a big old swing.
3. Jersey swap by Hardik Pandya and KL Rahul:
The jersey swapping ritual was started by Hardik Pandya and KL Rahul in the Indian Premier League. It was one moment when this duo made everyone fell in love with their bromance. This happened during a thrilling game between Mumbai Indians and Kings XI Punjab at Mumbai (Match 50). During the match, Mumbai Indians beat Kings XI Punjab by 3 runs in a thrilling game at the Wankhede Stadium.

With this win, while Mumbai Indians kept their hopes alive on winning the tournament, on the other hand, Kings XI Punjab were on the verge of their elimination from the league. Though KXIP lost the match but KL Rahul’s match-winning knock stole the show. He scored brave 94 off 60 balls but that went in vain.
At the end of the game, the fans witnessed the duo swapping their jerseys in a wonderful gesture, and upheld the spirit of the game. Talking about the same, KL Rahul revealed:
“That’s the beauty of the IPL. We play really hard, we play aggressive cricket and we all want to win the game. Even though we play 300 days of cricket together but these two months when we play IPL there’s no friendship once we step on the field. I want to take him down, and he wants to take my wicket.”
4. KL Rahul giving away his award to a fan:
It happened during the match between Mumbai Indians and Kings XI Punjab, where KXIP was set a target of 187 runs, KL Rahul played a brave knock. He scored 94 off 60 balls, which consisted of 10 fours and 3 sixes. However, once again, his gem of an inning went in vain as KXIP fell short of 3 runs.
After the match, KL Rahul was seen crying after the loss since they were almost knocked off from the tournament. Later, in the post-match presentation, KL Rahul decided to give away his award, that he won for his innings, to a random fan.

Talking about his performance, he had said:
“In the first half of IPL I was hitting the ball well but I would get out on 50-60 and then I’d find myself sitting in the dugout, seeing my team struggle sometimes. As an opening batsman, I wanted to take that extra responsibility.”
He added:
“I knew if I bat 20 overs more often than not we would end up on the winning side and end up getting a big target. But unfortunately, the last two innings haven’t gone my way or the team’s way. But everything’s a learning and I’m learning from these games. Hopefully, come a situation like this while playing for the country or any other tournament, I’m sure I’ll have better answers.”
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5. Gautam Gambhir giving away his captaincy:
Gautam Gambhir’s heroics as the skipper of the KKR is highly revered.  Under his captaincy, KKR won the IPL trophy twice. During his captaincy period for Kolkata Knight Riders, he took many great decisions for the team which has led the team to become one of the most successful teams in the IPL. But, he wasn’t retained or bought by the franchise at the auctions of IPL 2018.

However, his much-anticipated “homecoming” to Delhi Daredevils (DD) ended up with his decision to step down from captaincy. After ‘Delhi Daredevils’ found itself at the bottom of the points table, with eight matches to go, Gautam Gambhir decided to step down from the position of captain because of non-performance in the league and handed over the reins to Shreyas Iyer.
Gambhir said, “Absolutely my decision. I thought that I had not contributed enough and at the same time, to the performance of the team. I had to take the responsibility being the leader of the ship. I owe that responsibility as I should as a leader. I feel this is the right time (to step down as captain). We are very much in the competition. So this was the right time to put my hand up and where we stand in the points table.”
He added:
“Sometimes you realize that, maybe, I just could not handle the pressure, which came with the position and the responsibility that I was given.”