Amidst the rapid rise of franchise tournaments, the IPL stands out due to the quality of cricket one gets to witness. The spectators’ attention was grabbed again, courtesy of Nicholas Pooran’s scintillating aim in the field, inducing a direct hit from the deep to send Mayank Dagar back to the hut.
Chasing a target of 182 runs piled up by the Lucknow Super Giants, courtesy of Quinton de Kock and Nicholas Pooran’s swashbuckling knocks, RCB fell behind in the chase at the start. Following a 40-run opening stand, the hosts were curtailed to 104/6 in 15 overs. While impact sub Mahipal Lomror kept fighting with a late-blooming cameo, wickets kept tumbling from the other end with one of them involving a brilliant Nicholas Pooran direct hit from the edge of the boundary ropes.
On the first ball of the 18th over, Yash Thakur bowled a fuller delivery around the fourth stump that Lomror failed to time over the inner ring. The southpaw looked to slice it over long off but saw the ball fall just short of Pooran steaming in from the deep. Surprisingly, the Trinidad star aimed for the striker’s end stumps with a tracer bullet-like throw with a stumbled Mayank Dagar failing to make home for a double. Although the RCB all-rounder tumbled just a fraction of a second before the ball hit the stumps, the precision of the lightning-quick throw was such that he would not have made it.
Seeing this excellent art of fielding from the Caribbean figure, the Twitterverse drew comparisons from baseball games.
What a throw!
One such wild throw!
We won lsgg what a te work deknock pooran mayank siddrha devduttt Yash navenet Ravi stomis what a fileding direct hit nd. Last what aa captian kl hats of to how u defended it mazaa agaya batting na kar paye but captiancy maza slips lagna time pe mayank ko lana bestttyy
— #art……lifeeee (@kk142003) April 2, 2024
This direct hit from Pooran ❤️🔥😯#IPL2024 | #LSGvRCB
pic.twitter.com/wHkDfm94SU— Dineth Heshan ✪ (@dinethheshan__) April 2, 2024
That’s so harsh for RCB!
Good hit!
That direct hit from pooran🛐
— Punisher – who punishes himself (@_Alter__Boy_) April 2, 2024
Mayank couldn’t believe it!
What a catch pooran🔥🔥🔥🔥
First that direct hit and now that catch👏— REDFOX 🪓 (@selflessrohit45) April 2, 2024
LOL! Hahaha!
Pooran was not satisfied of banging RCB enough by bat, so now this wild direct hit too 😭🤣🤣🔥
— Unpaired_electron (@i_m_mukul_sahu) April 2, 2024
What a throw!
Direct hit from Long off 💥💥🥵
Pooran 🔥— Aaradugula Kathi (@Praneethreddie) April 2, 2024
That’s an insane direct hit Nicholas Pooran!
— Xi Simping (@micky864) April 2, 2024
Baseball throw!
Nicholas Pooran what was that throw 🤯
Best direct hit I have seen in IPL #RCBvsLSG— Film Extension (@hetshaw21855) April 2, 2024
