Naveen ul Haq took revenge from Mumbai. (IPL Photo)
Chennai: Afghanistan’s young fast bowler Naveen-ul-Haq is on the target of people after the fight with Virat Kohli. Whenever he comes on the field, the spectators start shouting slogans of Kohli-Kohli. It was the same situation when Lucknow Super Giants took the field against Mumbai Indians in the IPL Eliminator match on Wednesday. Seeing Naveen, the audience started chanting Kohli-Kohli. But the Lucknow bowler did not pay attention to them and did his job. He gave big jolts to Mumbai.
Naveen was also dropped from the team for a few matches after his fight with Kohli. But after that he made a comeback. Lucknow reached the playoffs and needed a win in the eliminator to stay in the title race. Naveen left no stone unturned to stop Mumbai with his superb bowling.
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giants piled up
Naveen made the big batsmen of Mumbai his victim. Batsmen who are famous for scoring runs at a stormy pace. He first returned the pavilion to Mumbai captain Rohit Sharma. Naveen got Rohit caught by Ayush Badoni on the second ball of the fourth over. Rohit scored 11 runs in 10 balls. After this, Naveen piled up two more batsmen in a single over. These two batsmen were Cameron Green and Suryakumar Yadav.
The pair of Suryakumar and Green was sharing a good partnership. In such a situation, Krunal called Naveen and this bowler did his job. He piled both the batsmen in the 11th over. On the fourth ball of this over, Naveen bowled a slower ball on which Suryakumar got caught and got bowled. After this, he bowled another slow ball on the last ball of the over on which Green was bowled. Suryakumar scored 33 runs in 20 balls. On the other hand, Naveen did not allow Green to complete his half-century. He scored 41 runs in 23 balls.
Afghan breakthrough!
Naveen gets the big wicket of Rohit Sharma in the #TATAIPL #eliminator #LSGvMI #IPLonJioCinema #IPL2023 pic.twitter.com/vFl43ZPSuW
— JioCinema (@JioCinema) May 24, 2023
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Revenge from Mumbai
In this match, Naveen gave 38 runs in four overs of his quota but took four wickets. He also made Tilak Verma his victim. With this performance, Naveen has taken revenge from Mumbai. When the last match took place between Lucknow and Mumbai, Naveen was thrashed by the Mumbai batsmen and did not allow him to take a single wicket. Naveen had spent 37 runs in four overs in this match.
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