R Sai Kishore in post-match presentation ceremony© BCCI/Sportzpics
A controversial staredown between Mumbai Indians captain Hardik Pandya and Gujarat Titans star bowler R Sai Kishore hogged limelight throughout the ninth match of Indian Premier League 2025 in Ahmedabad on Saturday. The livid conflict even noticed Hardik yelling “F*** off” to the spinner. Whereas the phrases of Hardik weren’t caught on the stump mic, the motion of his lips made is obvious what was mentioned. It occurred throughout the fifteenth over of Mumbai Indians’ chase when Sai Kishore bowled three dot balls to Hardik of the 4 balls bowled by then.
Whereas the controversial second between the duo went viral on web, each Hardik and Kishore have been seen hugging one another after the match. The heartwarming second too dragged the eye of the netizens on X (previously Twitter).
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Whereas reacting to the incident after the sport, Kishore mentioned, “He (Hardik) is an efficient good friend of mine, inside the sector it needs to be like that, however we do not take issues personally.”
Kishore returned figures of 1 for 37 in his quota of 4 overs. Speaking about his bowling, he mentioned, “I wasn’t getting as a lot buy at this time, so needed to bowl defensively and needed to do a job for the workforce. The pitch performed higher than it regarded.
MI misplaced the sport by 36 runs to GT. Suryakumar Yadav was their top-scorer with a 48-run knock off 28.
“He (Suryakumar Yadav) performed nicely, he swept all my good size balls. If somebody performs a great shot, you need to credit score the batter. I’ve to credit score Shubman (Gill), he stored advising me on what to bowl to Surya since he is seen him within the Indian nets. Wanting ahead to this season, I have been very trustworthy with myself and labored very exhausting. Have watched plenty of video games and labored on plenty of issues for this season, so wanting ahead to this season,” mentioned Kishore.
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