By Paritosh Pramanik :
SRH’s Harsh Dubey (3R) celebrates with captain Pat Cummins (R) and wicketkeeper Ishan Kishan, after taking the wicket of RCB’s Virat Kohli (L), on Friday night. (PTI)
BOWLERS world over crave for his wicket. They plot plans to get their name against Virat Kohli’s wicket.
On Friday night, Vidarbha’s premier left-arm spin bowler Harsh Dubey, playing as a replacement in Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) for R Smaran, fulfilled his long-cherished dream when he picked the wicket of Royal Challengers Bengaluru’s ‘King’ Kohli during their Indian Premier League match in Lucknow.
Dubey, who was playing only his second IPL match, was handed the ball by captain Pat Cummins in the seventh over and the left-arm tweaker delivered immediately, getting the ‘big fish’ Kohli on the last ball of his first over.
Dubey bowled a dot ball to Kohli and then the world’s best batter took a single. Phil Salt hit the Vidarbha spinner for a six after playing a dot and then again took another single to bring Kohli on strike. Dubey took a pause and bowled the delivery which had some extra bounce. Kohli tried to clear the point region with a cut shot but sliced it straight to the point fielder Abhishek Sharma for a dolly catch. Dubey was ecstatic and celebrated pumping his fist.
It was a big wicket which broke the well-set opening wicket partnership at 80 runs.
“I am very grateful to have played against Virat Kohli. I have watched him since my childhood, so getting his wicket is truly a dream come true,” Dubey wrote, with a picture talking with Kohli, on his social media
handle.
Playing his first game against Lucknow Super Giants a few days ago, the left-arm spinner from Nagpur had taken the wicket of Lucknow Super Giants’ in-form batter Mitchell Marsh in his fourth over.
