Mohammed Siraj has been on fire with the ball in the IPL 2023, and in particular, in the powerplay with the new ball. 7 of his 13 wickets in the tournament so far have come in the first 6 overs.
And the latest one in this list is the big scalp of RR’ lynchpin, their best and in-form batter, Jos Buttler. With the wicket of Jos Buttler, Siraj, with 13 wickets in the season so far, joined Arshdeep Singh as the leading wicket-taker in the tournament.
Siraj rocked up the M. Chinnaswamy stadium by dismissing that big fish, RR’s main man, Jos Buttler, castling his middle-stump after he’d come out in the tall chase of 190.
It was Siraj’s brilliant wobble ball that swung in a little bit, pitched on length outside offstump, before seaming in sharply to go through the bat-pad gap, breaching Buttler’s defense and rattling the middle stump, knocking the middle pole out of the ground.
No sooner had the middle-stump been uprooted that Mohammed Siraj went on the famous “Siuuuu” celebration of Cristiano Ronaldo with the Chinnaswamy going beserk in the background, and so did Virat Kohli.
Here, watch: Mohammed Siraj’s stunning delivery to bowl Jos Buttler
Meanwhile, Virat Kohli had a forgettable outing today as he was dismissed for a golden duck by Trent Boult, swinging in and lbw out. After a colossal partnership between Du Plessis and Maxwell, RCB kept on losing wickets and eventually finished with 189.
Teams:
RR (Playing XI): Jos Buttler, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Sanju Samson(w/c), Devdutt Padikkal, Shimron Hetmyer, Dhruv Jurel, Ravichandran Ashwin, Jason Holder, Trent Boult, Sandeep Sharma, Yuzvendra Chahal
RCB (Playing XI): Virat Kohli(c), Faf du Plessis, Mahipal Lomror, Glenn Maxwell, Shahbaz Ahmed, Dinesh Karthik(w), Suyash Prabhudessai, David Willey, Wanindu Hasaranga, Mohammed Siraj, Vijaykumar Vyshak
