Rajasthan Royals' Pravin Tambe shattered Kolkata Knight Riders' batting when he removed Manish Pandey, Yusuf Pathan and Ryan ten Doeschate to become the seventh cricketer with a hat-trick in the Indian Premier League. Rajasthan Royals won the match by ten runs.
Set 171 to win, Kolkata got off to a solid start with openers Gautam Gambhir and Robin Uthappa putting on 121 runs for the opening wicket. Once the two departed though, Tambe saw a window of opportunity and pushed himself through to seize the advantage for his side.
The 16th over of the match gave Rajasthan players and fans three reasons to erupt into frenzied celebrations. A charging Pandey was stumped, veteran Yusuf Pathan was caught and bowled and Dutchman ten Doeschate was LBW as Rajasthan players converged on Tambe to celebrate. Kolkata lost six wickets for two runs!
There were enough reasons to celebrate as Tambe became only the seventh ever to complete a hat-trick in the Indian Premier League. He now joins fellow Indians Laxmipathy Balaji, Yuvraj Singh (twice), Rohit Sharma, Amit Mishra (thrice), Ajit Chandila and Praveen Kumar in the list of bowlers to have claimed hat-tricks in IPL. Makhaya Ntini and Sunil Narine are the others on the list.
Story first published on: Monday, 05 May 2014 19:10
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