As IPL 2021 resumed, Kartik Tyagi became an overnight sensation for Rajasthan Royals, after helping his team to win a thriller against Punjab Kings. Kartik, the young bowler for Rajasthan, was their saviour in the penultimate over, defending just 4 runs.

After the match, Kartik revealed that, before bowling 20^th over many players gave him advise where to bowl, but he knew exactly how was he gonna bowl.

The Journey of Kartik Tyagi in Cricket:

The 20 years old has been playing his second season in IPL and is one of the key players for Royals. He came in limelight in 2020, when India won the ICC U-19 World Cup in South Africa. Tyagi ended his World Cup campaign with 11 wickets on his name, including his 24-4 match-winning spell against Australia in quarter-final of the tournament.

After a month of his World Cup campaign, Tyagi bagged a contract of 1.30 crore with inaugural season winner and IPL franchise Rajasthan Royals. Even though Tyagi didn’t perform well unlike his World Cup campaign, Rajasthan showed faith in the youngster and kept him for another season. Kartik also happened to miss the 1^st leg of IPL 2021 due to an injury.

Kartik was born in Hapur district of UP. In 2017, Kartik made his first-class debut against Railways at the age of 16 years. After his impressive show in first-class, the very next year he made his List-A debut for Uttar Pradesh against Delhi Ranji in 2018.

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Suresh Raina’s contribution in Kartik’s career

In an interview to PTI in 2020, Kartik revealed that it was Suresh Raina (then UP captain), who trusted him and gave the first break-through in his career. Kartik said that he will never forget former Indian cricketer Suresh Raina’s contribution in his career. At the age of 17, Raina gave him much neede confidence and backed him in UP Ranji team. Since then Kartik never stopped and is one of the brightest players for India.

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Rajasthan Royals pacer Kartik Tyagi hit the headlines on Tuesday after defending four runs in the last over to seal a thrilling two-run win over Punjab Kings in Dubai.

The 20-year-old Kartik Tyagi spoiled a historic day for Punjab Kings that included KL Rahul passing 3000 runs in the IPL, 2000 runs in the league for Mayank Agarwal, and a maiden IPL five-wicket haul for from left-arm seamer Arshdeep Singh.

Nothing was in favour of Rajasthan Royals on Tuesday except Tyagi’s last over as their star fielders like Chetan Sakariya, Reyan Parag and Sanju Samson dropped catches of Punjab opener KL Rahul who scored 49 runs. However, the team has dropped total 14 catches in this IPL.   

With eight runs needed off 12 balls and eight wickets in hand, Mustafizur conceded just four singles off in 19th over.

Punjab Kings were looking comfortable to take the two points with eight wickets in hands and only needing four to win but they were looking under pressure in the last over. Tyagi bowled six full deliveries and managed to pick the wickets of Nicholas Pooran and Deepak Hooda that led to 2 runs win. Kartik’s final over figures read – 0,1,W,0,W,0.

With this, Tyagi became the second bowler in IPL’s history to defend 4 runs in the final over after Munaf Patel who had defended 4 runs in the last over against Mumbai Indians in 2009. Patel had also played for Rajasthan Royals.

After his heroics with the ball, Tyagi received praise from India pacer Jasprit Bumrah and Dale Styen.

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Taking to Twitter, Bumrah wrote what an over to maintain a cool head under that kind of pressure and to get the job done, great stuff, very impressive. The South African pace Steyn dubbed Kartik’s performance as one of the best last overs while defending the target.

With the win, Rajasthan Royals jumped to fifth spot on the IPL 2021 points table and will next to lock horns against Delhi Capitals at the Sheikh Zayed Stadium in Abu Dhabi on Saturday.

In other India News, Delhi Police detained 5 Hindu Sena members for allegedly vandalising AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi’s residence at Ashoka Road. The DCP, New Delhi, Deepak Yadav said the Delhi Police detained five people and registered an FIR under relevant sections of IPC.

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With each game passing IPL 2021 is getting more interesting, as in third match of the second leg of IPL 2021, Rajasthan Royals defeated Punjab Kings by 2 runs. Young sensation Kartik Tyagi was the hero, as he defended 4 runs in last over. At one point Punjab were 178 runs in 18 overs with 8 wickets in hands and needed only 8 runs in last 2 overs. But the brilliance of Bangladeshi pacer Mustafizur Rahman and Indian bowling sensation Kartik Tyagi stole the win from Punjab Kings.

After winning the toss Punjab Kings opted to field first and invited Rajasthan Royals to bat. Rajasthan started well in power play, as the new recruit Evin Lewis and Yashasvi Jaiswal added 50 runs for 1^st wicket. Lewis departed at in last over of powerplay with a quick fire 36 runs in 21 balls. Royals captain Sanju Samsom couldn’t do much with the bat and got out early at 4 runs.

With the help of Jaiswal’s 49 and cameo of  Mahipal Lormor’s 43 runs in just 17 balls, Rajasthan posted a massive 185 runs on the board. Arshdeep Singh and Md. Shami took 5 and 3 wickets, respectively.

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Chasing the target of 186, Punjab responded very strongly. Their opening pair of KL Rahul and Mayank Agarwal added 120 runs for first wicket in 11.5 overs. But in a span of 2 overs Rajasthan sent both the openers back to pavilion. Mayank scored 67 runs in 43 balls, while Rahul missed his half century by just 1 run (49 runs). Even from that point Punjab was never in doubt to lose the match, because for 3^rd wicket Nicholas Pooran and Aiden Markram added 50 runs. At one point Punjab were at 178 runs in 18 overs and looked very comfortable to win the match, needing only 8 runs in 12 balls with 8 wickets in hand. Mustafizur came to bowl the 19^th over and gave only 4 singles, in last over Punjab needed only 4 runs with Markram and Pooran batting on 25 and 32 runs, respectively. But it was young Kartik Tyagi of Rajasthan who not only defended 4 runs but also took 2 wickets and won the match for Royals.

Kartik was named ‘man of the match’ for his unreal performance.

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