Twitter Reactions: Rising Pune Supergiant trounce KKR by 4 wickets

In what was an exciting contest between both the sides, Rising Pune Supergiant achieved a comfortable win against the Kolkata Knight Riders. This was their third consecutive victory on the trot as they now climbed up to the third position in the points table. Earlier in the day, it was captain Steve Smith who won the toss as the Supergiant elected to bowl first.

They played an unchanged XI from their last game. For KKR, Robin Uthappa who had a niggle didn’t play the game as Suryakumar Yadav replaced him. The Sunil Narine experiment failed again as Jaydev Unadkat bowled a wicket maiden first over to him. Sheldon Jackson too was out hit wicket as he tried to go back foot. Gautam Gambhir who looked good for a while ended up getting out for 24 (19).

While Manish Pandey batted well from the other end, Yusuf Pathan continued his poor run as he was trapped in front of the stumps by Imran Tahir. Colin de Grandhomme and Suryakumar Yadav then took the initiative of guiding KKR to a respective total as they both scored crucial 30s.

The Knight Riders were restricted to 155/8 in their quota of 20 overs. Unadkat was the pick of the bowlers with 2/28 while Washington Sundar also managed to get a couple of wickets. Ben Stokes and Daniel Christian picked a wicket each.

For RPS, Ajinkya Rahane continued to disappoint as he was back to the dugout in the second over. Captain Steve Smith was also dismissed cheaply. The day belonged to opener Rahul Tripathi who went on to score a magnificent 93 runs from just 52 balls. He hit 9 boundaries and 7 sixes in his knock.

While the likes of Manoj Tiwary, Ben Stokes and MS Dhoni failed to get going, Tripathi made sure that RPS had this game in the bag with his fantastic match winning knock. The hosts went on to win the game by four wickets.

Chris Woakes was the pick of the bowlers with 3/18. Sunil Narine was also quite economical with a splendid 1/28. The rest of the KKR bowling was taken away to the cleaners. Rahul Tripathi was deservingly rewarded the man of the match.

Here are some of the amazing Twitter reactions that took place during the course of the game:

Remove 93 runs scored by Tripathi, RPS would have lost by 70-80 runs. #RPSVSKKR

— chaitannya (@chaitannya) May 3, 2017

KKR are tied with SRH for second place, SRH under pressure now. What a great twist in the ranking table this has been. #IPL at its best!

— Banna. (@iJaiDeep_) May 3, 2017

Tripathi ne batting ka shaandaar paath padaya. Wonderful to see young indian batsman playing fearlessly and sensibly.#KKRvRPS

— Virender Sehwag (@virendersehwag) May 3, 2017

That's it.. Match over. Christian does it again. Finishes off this match too with a 6. ✌️?#RPSvKKR

— Mahendra Baahubali (@sk00monu) May 3, 2017

Tripathi should finish with a 6 like Dhoni to complete 100 and Let RPS win this Match. #ipl #IPL10 #IPLT20 #cricket #IPL2017 #rpsvskkr

— Sunil Dubai (@Sunildubai99) May 3, 2017

What is this random IPL ad between Vivo, Oppo & Gionee TV series?

— Trendulkar (@Trendulkar) May 3, 2017

#KKRvRPS Kkr Is Like Bahubali , But this Time Rahul Tripathi Is Kattapa #KkrVsRps??

— Rohit Vertex Goswami (@rohit_vertex) May 3, 2017

TRIPATHI ?????????#RPSvKKR

6 6 6

— ? கீர்த்தனா ? (@keerthana_03) May 3, 2017

Narine into attack after half the runs already scored. What happened to aggressive Gambhir captaincy? #KKRvRPS

— Sir Lazy (@iLazyLad) May 3, 2017

Nathan Coulter-Nile leaves the field with bruised bowling figures.

— Wichita Lineman (@_WichitaLineman) May 3, 2017

Rahane was winning the #playerbattles against Gambhir and the comm on air said : "Yeah because he has a smile on his face" ??? #IPL

— Manya ? (@CSKian716) May 3, 2017

I'm not being superstitious here, but haven't seen the same spark in Rahane, since he got clean shaved#KKRvRPS

— Sunil (@akshaykanitkar) May 3, 2017

Rahane getting consistent in failures now. #IPL

— Nikhil ? (@CricCrazyNIKS) May 3, 2017

de Grandhomme has played 17 deliveries so far, is yet to play a dot ball

1⃣1⃣1⃣1⃣6⃣6⃣1⃣4⃣1⃣1⃣4⃣1⃣1⃣1⃣1⃣4⃣1⃣

Striking at 211 #KKRvRPS #IPL

— Cricbuzz (@cricbuzz) May 3, 2017

So much power in arms as well as in testis , You need balls to go against Imraan Taahir #Grandhomme

— Tαkshαk. (@Takshak_Speaks) May 3, 2017

Is this the day when Yusuf Pathan plays his one big innings in the #IPL. Oh no he already did.

— Sameer Allana (@HitmanCricket) May 3, 2017

every1 who is hitting a four on Sundar's ball 2day
get out on d next ball
first was Jackson
and now its Gambhir#RPSvsKKR

— Poonam Yadav (@poonam__yadav) May 3, 2017

This IPL:

Most expensive first over – 18 runs by Badree v Narine
Least expensive first over – 0 runs by Unadkat v Narine (maiden)#KKRvRPS

— Bharath Seervi (@SeerviBharath) May 3, 2017

Massive game for @RPSupergiants coming up at a most vital stage in the tournament. Cracker Jack of a game. #KKRvRPS #IPL pic.twitter.com/XDkSVVSJoz

— Ravi Shastri (@RaviShastriOfc) May 3, 2017