The bat with which Kolkata Knight Riders' Rinku Singh hit five successive sixes against Gujarat Titans actually belonged to his captain Nitish Rana, who reluctantly gave it to his teammate. The left-handed Rinku hammered successive sixes off Yash Dayal from the last five balls of KKR's run chase to hand his side a miraculous three-wicket win in their IPL match …
Kolkata Knight Riders batter Rinku Singh’s bat with which he smashed Gujarat Titans for five consecutive sixes in the last over to win in a dramatic fashion, was reluctantly given to him by his captain Nitish Rana. I have played the entire Syed Mushtaq Ali trophy and the last four to five matches of last year with this bat,” Rana …
Almost a decade ago, former Australian opener Matthew Hayden, had popularised what was called the 'mongoose bat'. On Friday, in conversation with Chennai Super Kings, Hayden recalled the moment on how the former Indian captain had reacted on seeing the bat. “I’ll give you anything you want in life, to not use this bat! But Hayden assured his captain that …