KKR’s Cameron Green scored 79 runs against Gujarat. One of his sixes hit a Tata car kept in the ground, resulting in a donation of Rs 5 lakh for cricket development. Despite this, KKR lost the match.
Ahmedabad: Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) may have lost the match against Gujarat Titans, but there is a good news for the team. KKR’s expensive player Cameron Green has returned to form. In this match, he scored a explosive half century and rescued the team from the initial shocks. But in this match, one of his six is being discussed the most, because the price of that one six is Rs 5 lakh.
This interesting incident happened on the third ball of the 13th over of the match. Cameron Green hit a strong six towards the leg side on the ball of Ashok Sharma. The ball went straight to the ‘Tata Sierra’ car kept on display near the boundary.
Actually, Tata Motors has made a special announcement in this IPL season. According to this, if during the match any player’s shot hits the car parked directly in the field, then Tata Motors will donate Rs 5 lakh for the development of grassroots cricket at the rural level. Therefore, because of this one six of Green, now Rs 5 lakh will be deposited in the Cricket Development Fund.
Green became the team’s troubleshooter
When KKR’s top order batsmen returned to the pavilion and the team was in trouble, Cameron Green took over the innings. After the fall of 3 wickets for just 32 runs, Green came to the crease and played a brilliant inning of 79 runs in 55 balls. In this match, captain Ajinkya Rahane was disappointed by getting out on a ‘golden duck’ (zero on the first ball), while Tim Seifert scored 19 runs and Ankish Raghuvanshi scored 8 runs.
Green took the team’s score to 180 by making a valuable partnership of 55 runs with Rovman Powell for the fourth wicket. However, chasing this target, Gujarat Titans won the match in 19.4 overs with the help of captain Shubman Gill’s unbeaten 86 runs.