In IPL 2023, on the evening of 5th April, there was a fierce fight between Punjab Kings and Rajasthan Royals. Punjab Kings won this match by 5 runs, in which Raiszade i.e. the most expensive player of IPL played an important role. We are talking about Sam Karan, who currently in the last over could not save the Rajasthan Royals team. In fact, the entire excitement of Punjab vs Rajasthan match was contained in its last over. Chasing the target of 198 runs, Rajasthan were left to score only 16 runs in the last over, while they had 4 wickets in hand. In such a situation, Punjab captain Shikhar Dhawan handed over the ball to Sam Karan.
The most expensive player showed his mettle
Sam Karan was bought by Punjab Kings with the most expensive bid of Rs 18.50 crore. With this amount, he has become the most expensive player not only of this season but also of IPL history. In such a situation, when Dhawan gave him the ball to get out of the stuck match, he also had the challenge to justify the expensive bid made on him, in which he passed with full marks.
Gave victory by shielding 'one ball'
Sam Karan defended 16 runs in the last over to give his team a 5-run win. But how did he do it? So for this, he had made a complete plan. Instead of variation in bowling, he made only one ball - the yorker - a weapon and achieved success on his own.
Sam Karan said, “In that kind of situation you have to hit your yorker on target. If you do this then nothing is better than this. Well sometimes it works and some days it doesn't. But today was our day. ,
16 runs defended in the last over
Now just know what Sam Karan did in the last over. He put the first ball on the stump. Tried to bowl the second ball yorker which was a lower full toss. The third ball put Yorker on 5th stump. In the process of stealing runs on this ball, Rajasthan batsman Hetmyer was run out. After scoring only 4 runs in the first 3 balls, now Rajasthan had to score 12 runs in the next three balls.
The fourth ball also got a lower full toss in the Yorker affair. 5th ball was full on the stump. While the last ball was of full length, on which batsman Dhruv Jurel hit a four but could not win the team. At the same time, Sam Karan tried to yorker every ball. He did not get success in all but the good thing was that he was able to defend 16 runs for the team.