Yuzvendra Chahal heaped praise on Royal Challengers Bangalore’s Wanindu Hasaranga when the Sri Lankan spinner’s magical spell saw Kolkata Knight Riders get out on the bottom of aggregate in their IPL 2022 match in Mumbai on Wednesday night. Hasaranga bowled his full quota of four overs and took four wickets for just 20 runs.
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Chahal, a former RCB star who was not retained by the franchise despite an impressive record for him, wrote on Twitter, “Wanindu Hasaranga Champion” and his post quickly went viral.
Hasaranga, who made his IPL debut for RCB last year, was bought by the franchise for Rs 10.75 crore at the IPL mega auction in Bengaluru last month and justified the price-tag with a potential match-winning spell against a higher team- last week. On confidence after defeating defending champions Chennai Super Kings in their first match of the season.
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KKR were bowled out for 128 in 18.5 overs, with RCB doing much better with the ball after losing to Punjab Kings despite scoring more than 200 runs in their first match of the season.
RCB have a new captain in South Africa star Faf du Plessis, who will replace Virat Kohli, who stepped down after the end of the IPL 2021 season.
Chahal had earlier revealed how he had already been informed by RCB that he would not be retained, but the franchise would bid on him in the auction.
“The reality is Mike Hesson called me up and said ‘Listen Yuzi, there are three retentions. They didn’t ask me if I wanted to retain or didn’t want to tell me if they wanted to retain me. They just talked about three retentions and I was told – ‘We will go to the auction for you’, Chahal added The Times of India,
As it turned out, it was Rajasthan Royals who made a successful bid for the legspinner.
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