DTVHINDIIPL 2024: Harshit Rana’s parents came to watch his match for the first time, now he himself revealed
Rana successfully defended 13 runs in the last over. Harshit Rana (Photo Source: Sunrisers Hyderabad performed tremendously while chasing the huge target of 209 runs set by Kolkata Knight Riders in the third match of IPL 2024 on Saturday, 23 March. Heinrich Klaasen took the team closer to victory by scoring a half-century in 25 balls. When SRH needed 13 runs to win in the last over, Heinrich Klaasen was present at the crease. Shreyas Iyer then showed confidence in young bowler Harshit Rana and handed over the bowling to him. Klaasen hit a six on his first ball, then took a single on the second ball. After this, Rana turned the match by dismissing Shahbaz Nadeem and Heinrich Klaasen in the next three balls. My heart beat faster…- Harshit Rana In the end Kolkata Knight Riders won by 4 runs. Speaking on his match-winning performance, Harshit Rana said that it was the first time that the parents were in the stands and did not think of performing like that in front of them. Rana (Harshit Rana) said in a video shared by IPL, ‘This was the first time that my parents had come to watch my match. Earlier, I thought that when they watch my match, I will not be able to perform well. This season, I was playing my first match and I wanted to show them the competition. He further said, ‘My heart beat faster due to the expectations of the fans and there were not many runs to defend. I thought to myself that the worst that could happen was the match ending on that ball. However, if I can execute my plans the match will go deep.
‘He didn’t need to do this’ – Sunil Gavaskar fuming with anger after seeing Harshit Rana’s attitude
Harshit Rana had a scuffle with two SRH batsmen while fielding. Harshit Rana (Photo Source: In the thrilling third match of IPL 2024 between Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) and Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH), a controversial moment was witnessed. In fact, Kolkata’s young fast bowler Harshit Rana celebrated aggressively after dismissing Mayank Agarwal during the match and sent off the batsman by giving a flying kiss. Against Hyderabad, Harshit Rana bowled a bouncer to opener Mayank Agarwal, which Mayank also tried to play, but the ball went straight towards deep backward square leg and Rinku Singh present there took a brilliant catch. After taking Mayank’s wicket, Harshit celebrated by giving him a flying kiss. During this, Mayank angrily glared at the KKR pacer and returned to the pavilion. Sunil Gavaskar gave a big statement regarding Harshit Rana’s attitude This attitude of Harshit was not liked not only by Mayank but also by the fans and former Indian cricketer Sunil Gavaskar. He reprimanded Harshit severely. Gavaskar, who is known for his direct and accurate comments, heavily criticized Rana’s conduct and called it completely wrong. In fact, regarding KKR fast bowler Harshit Rana, former cricketer Sunil Gavaskar quoted India Today as saying that he should not have done this. Did any batsman do anything when he was being hit hard with sixes? Cricket can be played even without these activities. He further said, “I know we are all in the television age. We need to be seen doing certain things. You can play cricket without doing this. Celebrate by all means. Celebrate with the team. But, there is no need to do this with any opposition team.” In the third match of IPL, KKR defeated Sunrisers Hyderabad by 4 runs. Sunrisers Hyderabad needed 13 runs in the 20th over and Harshit Rana gave away only 8 runs. During this period, Harshit made Shahbaz Ahmed and Klaasen his victims. Harshit Rana played an important role in helping KKR win by taking two wickets in the last over. While chasing 209 runs given by KKR, Hyderabad team could score only 204 runs after losing 7 wickets in 20 overs.
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.
