Twitter Reactions: Manpreet Gony plays a blinder to win it single-handedly for the Toronto Nationals
Mandeep Singh even sent a couple out balls out of the park.
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The Toronto Nationals were involved in one hell of a chase in the game against the Edmonton Royals. In a high-scoring encounter, the team was never in the chase until Manpreet Gony walked in. The Indian pacer smashed everything in his sight out of the park to get his team back into the game. First, the Royals were put in to bat first by Yuvraj Singh and his men.
The match was reduced to 19-overs per side due to a delay initially. Even though their openers didn’t really fire, the other batsmen turned up and played important cameos. It was a complete team effort rather than an individual performance. Skipper Faf du Plessis scored 28 from 18 balls while Mohammad Hafeez crawled his way to 20 runs from 12 balls. James Neesham made a handy contribution with a 12-ball 20.
But it was Ben Cutting and Shadab Khan who provided the team with the final impetus. Both these players were unstoppable and put up some clean hitting on display. While the Australian was unbeaten on 43 from 24 balls, Shadab raced his way to 36 from 17 balls. Ultimately, the Royals got to 191/6 in 19 overs. While Chris Green picked up three wickets, Manpreet Gony conceded 51 from his 4 overs.
A stellar chase where Manpreet Gony fired in all cylinders
The Toronto Nationals were going nowhere in the chase. Opener Rodrigo Thomas was dismissed for 8 after he smashed a couple of boundaries while Callum MacLeod was dismissed for a duck. Heinrich Klaasen played well but was a tad too slow as he took 39 balls to score 45. Skipper Yuvraj Singh, though, was back in form. He hit three fours, three sixes and scored 35 runs before he was deceived by a slower ball from Ben Cutting.
At 125/7 after 13.4 overs, it seemed as if it was all over from the Toronto Nationals. But Manpreet Gony played a match-changing knock where he smashed 33 off only 12 balls. Out of nowhere, his team was back in the competition. But there was pressure yet again when Cutting took a fabulous catch to dismiss Gony. However, the other batsmen did well to finish the chase with two wickets to spare. Twitterati was all praise for Manpreet Gony and his heroics.
Here is how Twitterati reacted to his knock and this win:
Great to start the tournament in this fashion first of many wins for Toronto nationals many ???????????????? 10 balls 33 runs..!!its pleasure to get the award from the legend. @wasimakramlive pic.twitter.com/5dHgsvZJqZ
— Manpreet Gony (@imMsgony) July 28, 2019
What a finish!
Manpreet Gony takes them close before local boys Salman Nazar and Mark Montfort seal the two-wicket win for @TorontoNational
They lost the opening game of the #GT2019 but they are on the points table now.
Good fight from @EdmontonGT20 #GT2019#ERvsTN pic.twitter.com/7zuCwC5UB1
— GT20 Canada (@GT20Canada) July 27, 2019
Vintage Yuvi @YUVSTRONG12 turned out in #GT20Canada Some breathtaking shots from #ManpreetGony did it for #TorontoNationals
— Srikanth (@Srikanth_2989) July 27, 2019
4,4,4,6. Manpreet Gony to Jimmy Neesham.
Note: Manpreet is batting#GT2019— Maheshmello (@cheeku_243) July 27, 2019
Vintage Manpreet Gony!
— Shubh AggarWall (@shubh_chintak) July 27, 2019
MANPREET GONY YOU ROCKSTAR. ???? #GlobalT20Canada
— Manya (@CSKian716) July 27, 2019
Manpreet gony abhi v khelta hi????????
— AYUSH (@Ayush_VKfan) July 27, 2019
Two sixes in three balls, current CSKian, Faf du Plessis smashing the former CSKian, Manpreet Gony out of the park. #GlobalT20
— Shubh AggarWall (@shubh_chintak) July 27, 2019
Ravi Rampaul and Manpreet Gony ..
Looks similar ????— Mubin (@_Mubean__) July 27, 2019
Unbelievable opening over from Manpreet Gony ????????. Ball zipping through but the highlight was a massive no-ball of the very first and that was also a ripper #GT20Canada
— Karthik Raj (@kartcric) July 27, 2019
Manpreet Gony time. Canada isn’t ready for this. #GlobalT20Canada
— Manya (@CSKian716) July 27, 2019
It’s Indian players domination
Yesterday @YUVSTRONG12 innings 35 of 21 balls #CanadaT20 #yuvi #TorontoNationals #yuvi
India’s Manpreet Gony scored 33 of 12 balls & helped the team to register 1st win..Man of the Match to Font pic.twitter.com/kBeSKByPUt
— ????️⭕⭕®️ ????️????️???? (@Rowdynirup) July 28, 2019
Beautiful game of cricket????n brilliant chase from @TNationals well played our beloved #YuvrajSingh n #Gony #glt20 excellent performance from Canadian lower order #GlobalT20Canada, dear @ICC pls explore the cricket globally, many other teams deserved to play #CWC pic.twitter.com/Dcj5euyA4n
— Bharath (@merugubharath) July 27, 2019
Yet again bowler did with bat.
MS Gony 4-0-51-0 with ball.
Still got MoM because of performance with bat https://t.co/4eI1t9Urho— Merin Kumar ™ (@merin_kumar) July 27, 2019
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