IPL 2024: Sachin Tendulkar admired Harshit Rana’s bowling, said a big thing while praising him
Harshit Rana gave KKR its first win of IPL 2024 by defending 13 runs in the last over against SRH. Sachin Tendulkar & Harshit Rana (Photo Source: X/Twitter) On March 23, the second match of IPL 2024 was played between Kolkata Knight Riders and Sunrisers Hyderabad. There was a close contest between the two teams where KKR won the match by 4 runs. Andre Russell and Harshit Rana had the most important contribution in this victory of KKR. Andre Russell played an explosive inning of 64* runs with the first bat. Later, he also took two wickets while bowling. Talking about Harshit Rana, he took three big wickets for 33 runs in his four over spell. Harshit Rana was bowling the 20th over of SRH’s innings and there he had to defend 13 runs. There, Harshit Rana bowled brilliantly, gave only 8 runs and took two big wickets to give an important victory to his team. In these three wickets, he had dismissed Mayank Agarwal, Heinrich Klaasen and Shahbaz Ahmed. Harshit kept his nerves under control in the last over and bowled brilliantly against an explosive batsman like Heinrich Klaasen. After the match, Harshit Rana was being praised everywhere. In this episode, Sachin Tendulkar, who is called the God of Cricket, has also read ballads in his praise. Tendulkar has shared a post on social media praising Rana. Sachin Tendulkar shared this special post about Harshit Rana After the KKR vs SRH match, Sachin Tendulkar wrote on social media platform Instead of yorkers he opted to bowl a slower ball to Klaasen, who was well set at that stage of the match and possibly take him by surprise. Very good.’ We witnessed 2 wonderful knocks by @Russell12A and Klaasen today. @PhilSalt1 led the charge first, followed by some brilliant power hitting by Russell. Heinrich Klaasen ensured that Sunrisers Hyderabad came close to the target but some courageous bowling in the final over by… — Sachin Tendulkar (@sachin_rt) March 23, 2024 Let us tell you that 22 year old Harshit Rana plays domestic cricket for Delhi. So far, he has taken 28 wickets in 7 first class matches, while he has taken 22 wickets in 14 List A matches. Apart from this, he has 12 wickets in his name in 13 T-20 matches. Before joining KKR, Harshit was a net bowler for Gujarat Titans in IPL 2022. But after the injury of Rasikh Salam, Harshit was selected in the KKR team.