Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) pacer Mohammed Siraj has been phenomenal with the ball in the IPL 2023. And a piece of his brilliance was showcased on Wednesday night against KKR when he castled the big giant Andre Russell with a superb, pin-point yorker at the M. Chinnaswamy stadium.
It was a perfect leg-stump yorker from Siraj to which Russell had no answers. On the last ball of his spell, Siraj steamed in hard, with great intensity, and delivered a leg-stump yorker at a high speed of 144 KPH. Russell swung his bat but didn’t manage to get anything onto the ball and was stunned to see the ball hit the leg stump and the bail pop out.
The fast bowler celebrated this dismissal animatedly. It felt like a revenge for the bowler for the beating he got from Andre Russell in 2019 at this same venue.
Watch: Mohammed Siraj’s perfect yorker ends Andre Russell’s innings
𝙎𝙚𝙣𝙨𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡!
What a ball that from @mdsirajofficial to Andre Russell 👏🏻👏🏻
He's having an exceptional #TATAIPL 2023 so far with the ball 👌🏻👌🏻#RCBvKKR pic.twitter.com/x8299PiFvw
— IndianPremierLeague (@IPL) April 26, 2023
RCB Speedster economy of 7.28 in IPL 2023 is easily his best economy in any IPL season. This has also been reflected in the huge number of dot balls he’s bowled this season. After his bowling against KKR, Siraj stands on top of the list of the most number of dot balls he’s bowled in IPL 2023 with 101 dot balls.
Currently, Siraj is the join-highest wicket-taker in the IPL 2023 with 14 scalps in 8 matches, the same as Rashid Khan, who 14 wickets came in 7 matches though. RCB pacer has been phenomenal in the powerplay: out of his 14 wickets, 7 wickets have come in the powerplay alone; Trent Boult also has 7 powerplay wickets.
KKR posted a total of 200/5 on the back of Jason Roy’s half-century followed by good knocks from Venkatesh Iyer and Nitish Rana after Virat Kohli had elected to bowl first.
Teams:
KKR (Playing XI): N Jagadeesan(w), Jason Roy, Venkatesh Iyer, Nitish Rana(c), Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Sunil Narine, David Wiese, Vaibhav Arora, Umesh Yadav, Varun Chakaravarthy
RCB (Playing XI): Virat Kohli(c), Shahbaz Ahmed, Glenn Maxwell, Mahipal Lomror, Dinesh Karthik(w), Suyash Prabhudessai, Wanindu Hasaranga, David Willey, Vijaykumar Vyshak, Harshal Patel, Mohammed Siraj
