Cricket is the game of partnership whether it could be of batting course or bowling a better partnership always takes the game away from the opponents. Sometimes it depends onto the momentum which gets on going. If you get it early you may shine as sun, but it goes the other way then you get deep into it. And in T20 you won’t get enough time to get settle you have to make your instinct correctly.
In this segment we gonna talk about the batting partnerships which just not took away the game from opponents but couldn’t able to withstand the feat.
1 Kl Rahul And Quintin De Cock
It was the match between Lucknow Super Gaints vs Kolkata knight Riders which happened in Dy Patil stadium, Mumbai. Lucknow won the toss and elected to bat first. This game was a must win game for KKR to into proceedings of playoffs. But what just happened was unbelievable for them.
Rahul and De Cock started to blast the bowlers from the start of their innings. It was really some brutal attacks with the likes of Sunil Naraine and Varun Chakravarthy. The duo were unbeaten till the end of the innings where De scored unbeaten 140 who just was unstoppable, where in that innings he hit 10 fours and 10 sixes. Rahul complemented the innings hitting 3 fours and 4 sixes. At the end KKR tried their level best, Thanks to wonderful innings of Rinku Singh but still short of 2 runs.
2. David Warner And Bairstow
It was a match which RCB would never like to remember because they won the toss and choose to field in the batting paradise wicket but that opportunity was never missed by Warner and Bairstow. They were on the charge from the start
Where Bairstow played the role of aggressor and Warner guiding the innings with his firey shots. Bairstow was on unbelievable charge where he scored 114 runs hitting 12 fours and 7 massive sixes. Warner who was anchoring the charge too scored a brilliant century hitting 5 fours and 5 sixes where Warner went not out. Both scored a partnership of 185 runs. Banglore couldn’t hold the pressure of big target and got bundled in 113 which was one run short from Bairstow score.
3. Chris Lynn And Gautam Gambhir
This match was a absolute stunner between newly formed Gujrat Lions and Gambhir KKR. KKR won the toss and choose to field first, expecting the nature of the pitch which is slowish at start and a batting paradise in second innings where dew precipitates later. Gujrat Lions were losing wickets at continuos intervals.
At the end they put up a fighting total of 183. But after the innings break it was just a complete one sided game which no one expected. Chris Lynn and Gautam took the charge of the chase. They were in such a hurry that they want to finish the match as soon as possible. Chris Lynn was firing balls he made well made 93 not out, hitting 6 fours and 8 sixes. Where Gautam scored an unbeaten 76 hitting 12 boundaries. Both of them were unbeaten till the end and made a partnership of 184 runs.
