Last night, we witnessed another nail biting match between Kings XI Punjab and Mumbai Indians. Mumbai Indians won the match beating Kings XI Punjab by 3 runs. We saw many great performances last night from the players like KL Rahul, Jasprit Bumrah, Kieron Pollard, who made everyone sit on the edge of their seats, throughout the match.
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While there were many great moments in the match, there were a few disappointing moments as well. However, this one moment that we are going to talk about here is a very weird one as no one expects such mistakes to happen in matches like these.
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Amidst the match, in the first innings when Mumbai Indians were playing their innings, two light towers blanked out and half of the venue was engulfed in darkness. Yes, you read that right. The players of both the teams were asked to go off-the field. It took nearly five minutes to fix the technical issue.
Luckily, the players didn’t had to wait for so long because of this issue and as soon as the lights were on back again, Krunal Pandya and Kieron Pollard took the charge once again. However, social media went berserk after this hilarious mistake. People took to twitter and started trolling.
Here’s how twitterati reacted to this, have a look:
https://twitter.com/prithinarayanan/status/996775344001581056
https://twitter.com/Kakarla07/status/996776602775109633
Such has been Mumbai’s run at home that even the light towers have decided to showup.
— Nikhil ? (@CricCrazyNIKS) May 16, 2018
Bookies not happy with that clatter of wickets…cut the wires… #ipl
— Innocent Bystander (@InnoBystander) May 16, 2018
The floodlight issue at the Wankhede is quite regular I feel, wonder why? #MIvKXIP #IPL
— Anish Telkikar (@telkikar_anish) May 16, 2018
Thank god they didn’t Sing Happy Birthday and cut a cake. ? https://t.co/8sipBNVQ3E
— Prabhu (@Cricprabhu) May 16, 2018
https://twitter.com/Kakarla07/status/996776602775109633
All these floodlight malfunctions remind me of those orange ball t20s in Pakistan where they had to switch off two towers every game coz the nearby public complained
— ?? (@AmSoDone) May 16, 2018
Apparently Wankhede Staff did not pay their Reliance Electricity Bill and the Floodlights connection has been terminated. #MIvKXIP
— Chandler Bing (@SarcasmChamp) May 16, 2018
Floodlights are bored of MI’s pathetic batting too.? #IPL
— Prasad Suroshe (@PrasadsCR7) May 16, 2018
The umps are back on the field while the floodlight towers have started illuminating. Expect resumption in 10 to 15 mins #MIvKXIP
— Amol Karhadkar (@karhacter) May 16, 2018
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