LLC 2024: Irfan Pathan imitates Billy Bowden’s ‘crooked finger of doom’ signal, video wins hearts
Odisha captain Irfan Pathan imitated New Zealand veteran umpire Billy Bowden’s “crooked finger of doom” out signal on the fence during the match. Irfan Pathan (Source X) Legends League Cricket (LLC 2024) got off to a great start on 20 September, with Konark Suryas Odisha defeating Manipal Tigers in a thrilling and low-scoring match. The match was played at the Barkatullah Khan Stadium in Jodhpur on 20 September. Odisha won the match by 2 runs, but a funny incident was also seen during the match which caught everyone’s attention. Odisha captain Irfan Pathan imitated legendary New Zealand umpire Billy Bowden’s fence “crooked finger of doom” out signal during the match. The incident happened in the third over of the second innings when Manipal Tigers were chasing 105 runs. Irfan stood beside Bowden and signaled out in his style, which made Bowden laugh. Irfan Pathan’s funny style of imitating this famous gesture of Boden is going viral on social media. Watch this viral video, in which this funny incident between Irfan and Boden was captured: The funnier side of @irfanpathan_official! Watch as Irfan Pathan imitates umpire Billy Bowden’s umpiring style! pic.twitter.com/21qNtKqcU0 — Shubham Srivastava (@Shubham192223) September 21, 2024 Konark Suryas Odisha wins thrillingly by two runs Manipal Tigers captain Harbhajan Singh won the toss and decided to bowl first. Odisha had a bad start, where their top-3 batsmen got out on single digit scores. After this, Dilshan Munaweera, Ross Taylor and captain Irfan Pathan struggled on the pitch and tried to handle the team. These three together scored 43 runs, but batting on the pitch was proving to be quite difficult. In the final over, Naveen Stewart and Vinay Kumar hit two boundaries each to help Odisha cross the 100-run mark and post 104/9 in 20 overs. In reply, Manipal Tigers had a poor start as their openers Robin Uthappa and Solomon Mire were dismissed without scoring a single wicket. The team’s score was reduced to 38/6 in the first 13 overs. However, Daniel Christian and Obas Pinar tried to put the team in a good position with a 49-run partnership, but Irfan Pathan defended 13 runs in the last over to give Odisha a thrilling two-run win.
IPL 2024: 40 overs, 523 runs, 38 sixes, a night of doom for the bowlers in Hyderabad, MI gets second consecutive defeat.
Sunrisers Hyderabad won against Mumbai Indians by 31 runs. SRH vs MI (Photo Source: IPL Official Website) IPL 2024, SRH vs MI: The 8th match of IPL 2024 was played between Sunrisers Hyderabad and Mumbai Indians. Mumbai Indians captain Hardik Pandya won the toss and decided to bowl first. Sunrisers Hyderabad, batting first, put 277 runs on the board at the loss of 3 wickets, which is the highest total in IPL history. Chasing the target, Mumbai Indians could only score 246 runs at the loss of 5 wickets, and Sunrisers Hyderabad won by 31 runs. SRH vs MI: Batsmen batted brilliantly The pair of Mayank Agarwal and Travis Head gave a good start to Sunrisers Hyderabad. There was a partnership of 45 runs between the two batsmen for the first wicket. Mayank Agarwal was out against Hardik Pandya after scoring 11 runs in the fifth over. In the second over of the innings, Tim David missed the catch of Travis Head, which proved costly for Mumbai Indians. Travis Head completed his first half-century in 18 balls. Then played an inning of 62 runs in 24 balls with the help of 9 fours and 3 sixes. Abhishek Sharma again played brilliantly and scored a half-century in 16 balls. Abhishek is the fastest batsman to score a half-century for Sunrisers Hyderabad. Abhishek Sharma played a brilliant inning of 63 runs in 23 balls with the help of 3 fours and 7 sixes. Aiden Markram and Heinrich Klaasen also showed their magic. Heinrich Klaasen played an unbeaten inning of 80 runs in 34 balls with the help of 4 fours and 7 sixes. Whereas Aiden Markram scored unbeaten 42 runs with the help of 2 fours and 1 six in 28 balls. All the bowlers of Mumbai Indians proved to be very expensive. Hardik Pandya, Gerald Coetzee and Piyush Chawla took 1 wicket each. Pat Cummins bowled brilliantly SRH vs MI, Rohit Sharma and Ishan Kishan had come with the intention of giving an aggressive start to the team, but the team got its first blow at the score of 56. Ishan Kishan lost his wicket against Shahbaz Ahmed in the fourth over after scoring 34 runs in 13 balls with the help of 2 fours and 4 sixes. After which Rohit Sharma lost his wicket against Pat Cummins in the very next over. Rohit Sharma played an inning of 26 runs in 12 balls with the help of 1 four and 3 sixes. Naman Dhir was out against Jaydev Unadkat in the 11th over after scoring 30 runs in 14 balls. Tilak Verma was batting brilliantly, but was out against Pat Cummins in the 15th over. Tilak Verma played an inning of 64 runs in 34 balls with the help of 2 fours and 6 sixes. Hardik Pandya scored 24 runs in 20 balls. Whereas Tim David played an unbeaten inning of 42 runs with the help of 2 fours and 3 sixes in 22 balls. Chasing 278 runs, Mumbai Indians could only score 246 runs and Hyderabad registered a…