It’s unreal to accept that one can score 29 runs in the final over when the chips are down but not for Rinku Singh as he smashed five straight sixes to pull off one of the most memorable victories in the glorious history of the Indian Premieꦫr League (IPL).
The jaw-dropping moment took place in the clash between Kolk꧟ata Knight Riders (KKR) and Gujarat Titans (GT) at Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad on 🅰Sunday when Rashid Khan, the stand-in skipper of GT, had just taken a hat-tri꧃ck to pull things back into his side.
The victory was looking far ahead for the touring party as the equation was down to 29 needed on six balls with only three wickets in hand. It could’ve been an easy task for Yash Dayal, who is not new to the cash-rich league thrillers. B🌼ut the left-🦄armer had no clue as to what Rinku was thinking.
After Umesh Yadav took a single on the first ball, Rinku activated his beast mode and slammed back-to-back five sixes tꦬo seal the deal for the Knight Riders. He stormed straightaway towards the dugout in celebration but was stopped👍 halfway by his skipper, who was all over him as the celebrations began.
Earlier, Sai Sudharsan and Vijay Shankar powered the Titans to a massive total of 204/4 after Rashid 🐷won the toss and elecꦆted to bat. While Sudharsan smashed 38-ball 53, Shankar scored an unbeaten 63 from 24 deliveries, including 4 fours and 5 sixes.
Here is how Twitter reacted:
Rinku. Rinku. Rinku Singh!!!
— Mpumelelo Mbangwa (@mmbangwa)
RINKU 👏 👏 👏
— Ben Stokes (@benstokes38)
Rinkuuuuuuuuuu 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
— Shreyas Iyer (@ShreyasIyer15)
Rinku Singh ✅✅💕
— Ashwin 🇮🇳 (@ashwinravi99)
All hail Lord Rinku Singh. 5 sixes in 5 balls in the last over of a run chase. One♔ of the best last over hitting in a chase that you would ever ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚsee.
— Virender Sehwag (@virendersehwag)
SUPER STAR RINKU SINGH ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤ꦉ️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤💞️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
— Harbhajan Turbanator (@harbhajan_singh)
Unbelievable hitting from Rinku Singh. 6 6 6 6 6 4 6 from his last seven balls. has wit✤nessed one of the most dramatic finishes ever.
— Yusuf Pathan (@iamyusufpathan)
The mos♚t dramatic finish in the history🦩 of IPL. 29 chased down of the last over. Great skills shown by Rinku Singh.
— Venkatesh Prasad (@venkateshprasad)
It’s unreal! Very well played Rinku 👏👏
— Vinay Kumar R (@Vinay_Kumar_R)
6 to win the match – Dhoni
6, 6 to win the match – Tewatia
6, 6, 6 , 6, 6 to win the match – ONLY RINKU SINGH!— KolkataKnightRiders (@KKRiders)
How about that!!! you beauty!!! That was just mental!! What a finiไsh!!
— Robin Aiyuda Uthappa (@robbieuthappa)
Oh my god! Rinkua ke pappa hihi has deli
— cricBC (@cricBC)
Rinku Singh seals t𝐆he ♔deal for Kolkata Knight Riders 💜
— betvisa69.com (@CricketTimesHQ)
What an unbelievable game of cricket by
Needed 29 runs off the last over & enter
1️⃣6️⃣6️⃣6️⃣6️⃣6️⃣ 💥— @BrettLee_58 (@BrettLee_58)
everyone to rinku singh today 🥹
— prime video IN (@PrimeVideoIN)
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deliv🎃ers once again in the big over🌊s, hat-trick this time!
— Tom Moody (@TomMoodyCricket)
Rinku bhai, what have you done!!! 🔥🔥🔥
— KSR (@KShriniwasRao)
What a game ! ! What a game ! What a ga🐟me ! What a game !
— Ridhima Pathak (@PathakRidhima)
6, 4, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6 in the last 7 balls by�✱� Rinku Singh
When KKR needed 39 runs from 8 balls.
— Johns. (@CricCrazyJohns)
KKR might be the 1st team 🎀to concede 2 hat-tricks on the same venue. 1st one was taken by Tambe in 2014.
— Prithvi (@Puneite_)
Highest targe💧t achieved in last 💖over off an inngs in IPL
29 runs KKR vs GT Ahmedabad 2023
23 runs RPS vs PBKS Vizag 2016
22 runs GT vs SRH Mumbai WS 2022— Deepu Narayanan (@deeputalks)
KKR needed 39 off 8 balls to win.
Rinku Singh played 7 balls.
Scores 6 4 6 6 6 6 6.
— Bharath Seervi (@SeerviBharath)
If you can hit 5 brilliantly executed sixes when your team needs 29 runs to win from the fi👍nal over and to top it up, you make Chandrakant Pandit excited….. you’ve surely done something very very special.
Take A Bow, ❤️
— North Stand Gang – Wankhede (@NorthStandGang)
They'll call it "Doing a Rinku"
🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯
— Rajasthan Royals (@rajasthanroyals)
29 runs chased off the last over with☂ Rinku Singh hitting 5 sixes in a row. Crazy finish. IPL madness.
— Mazher Arshad (@MazherArshad)
All that emotion on Chandrakant Pandit’s face as he hugged Rinku Singh repeatedly perfectly complemented Rinku Singh’s lack of ꦯemotion while he was pulling off one of the IPL’s greatest ever heists. Incredible finish
— Bharat Sundaresan (@beastieboy07)