Jos Buttler, who scored his second century of the season in a conversation with Yuzvendra Chahal after the game said that he had believed that RR would win the match despite some late order bashing by Umesh Yadav.
I Did Not Expect That Umesh Yadav Would Smash Trent Boult: Jos Buttler
RR had scored a enormous 217 in their first innings. Kolkata Knight Riders had reacted well to the target as at one point they required fair 40 runs to win in 4 overs with Shreyas Iyer, and Venkatesh Iyer batting together. But one over from Chahal changed everything. He got both the Iyers out.
But Umesh Yadav in the very next overcame all guns blazing against Trent Boult and hit him for 2 sixes and a four in the single over. He brought the equation down to a situation where it could have been anybody’s game. But a brilliant last over by debutant Obey McCoy saw RR get over the line.
“I still had some belief that we could win. I was not expecting Umesh Yadav to smash Boult around. Obed bowled a brilliant 19th over, he has great skill with the slower ball. That along with the long side of the ground was going to be tough for KKR,” Buttler told Chahal in the video.
