Virender Sehwag has now compared Rinku to players like MS Dhoni and Sachin Tendulkar. He also said that Rinku did something in the IPL that had never been done before.
Rinku Singh was the star of IPL 2023. Last week, the star player for the Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) went into God mode in the last over of the chase against the Gujarat Titans in Ahmedabad. He hit five sixes to help his team get the 205 runs they needed to win. India’s legendary batsman Virender Sehwag has now compared Rinku to MS Dhoni and Sachin Tendulkar. He also said that Rinku did something in the IPL that had never been done before.
Sehwag told Cricbuzz just before KKR’s match against Sunrisers Hyderabad at Eden Gardens in Kolkata that Rinku is like the legendary Dhoni and Sachin. He said that Rinku’s presence in the KKR lineup is like what Dhoni and Sachin were for India when they were playing.
“The KKR team thinks that Rinku Singh is still around. When MS Dhoni started finishing games, people thought he was still playing. In the 1990s, if Tendulkar was there, the match could be won, but if he wasn’t, it couldn’t. Now, KKR and Rinku Singh are in the same situation. Before, they were all about Andre Russell,” he said.
However, the former Indian batter believes that he will never surpass Rinku’s record of five consecutive sixes, which he was the only player to accomplish in the final over of an IPL game.
In the history of cricket, this has never occurred, and Rinku Singh will never be able to repeat it. Although this record may have been broken, Rinku will never in his life be able to hit six sixes and surpass it.
Sehwag added that Rinku did experience a small amount of good fortune during that game versus GT. He claimed that hitting five sixes would have been tough or impossible if Alzarri Joseph had bowled the last over and that it was only made feasible by the mindset he adopted upon seeing Yash Dayal with the ball, who he has faced numerous times in practice matches for the Uttar Pradesh state side.
You also require a little bit of luck. Even Rinku would have realized that he wouldn’t be able to strike the bowler if it had been Alzarri Joseph. However, he has spent his entire life in the nets with Yash Dayal. “So Rinku had the proper attitude,” he continued.
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