He is back! Yes, the forgotten figure of Indian Cricket, Lakshmipathy Balaji is back with a bang! It must have been the worst 2-3 years of his life after being out of action due to an injury! Part of The Chennai Super Kings in the IPL, he was the Man who did the damage to the Kings XI Punjab returning with figures of 4-0-24-5 which also included a hatrick - The First in the IPL!!!
The best part was 4 of the 5 wickets were crucial important wickets, the first being Shaun Marsh who was looking dangerous with a 38 ball 58 which included 3 fours and 4 sixes! The next to go was Ramnaresh Sarwan who can take the game away from anytime if he gets his eye in! The were the 2 inportant wickets he had taken in his first spell!
On his comeback spell he had taken the wiket of Irfan Pathan who was looking very very dangerous with a 18 ball 40 which included 3 fours and 3 sixes!!! The next ball saw Piyush Chawla packing his bags!
Next was the hatrick ball. You would have thought that VRV Singh would have a brain that matched his body size, but instead he went for a wild swing which saw him top edge the ball high into the sky which Dhoni had no problems pouching!
That hatrick brought the familiar Wide Smile in Balaji's face which had been missing for soooo long!
What was to note that being a medium fast bowler, he had bowled throughout in the 95 - 120 kmph mark and never crossed it.... All his wickets were with these slower deliveries! Now isn't that beautiful!!!
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