IPL Debutant Concedes 15 Runs In 1 Ball During KKR vs LSG Game. Here’s How

West Indies quick bowler Shamar Joseph had a horrible begin to his IPL profession as he ended up conceding 47 runs in 4 overs together with a large 22 runs within the opening over of the match. Joseph, who performed his first recreation for Lucknow Super Giants, was taken to the cleaners by Kolkata Knight Riders batters and seemed utterly clueless on an Eden Gardens pitch that had little help for bowlers. The remaining supply of his first over costed him 15 runs as he bowled 2 no-balls, 2 wides and it ended with Phil Salt slamming him for an enormous six over long-off so as to add on to his distress.

Joseph conceded 7 runs in his first 5 deliveries and though Yash Thakur missed a catch on the ultimate ball, it might not have mattered because the bowler overstepped. Joseph tried to bowl vast of the off-stump however ended up conceding a large adopted by one other vast that resulted in a boundary.

Things received worse for the younger cricketer as his subsequent try was additionally a no-ball as a consequence of overstepping and the over lastly ended with that single ball costing the bowler and his aspect 15 runs.

Following the match, LSG captain KL Rahul opened up about Shamar Joseph and his struggles.

“One of those days, it was a proper hammering. Games like these are tough to digest and we have seen in IPL and every team goes through that. We will try and work out what went wrong and come back better. The ball started nipping around a lot more in the second innings, the shots that we played in the first innings, didn’t execute well and kept losing wickets in bunches and we could have got a lot more runs and that’s where we missed and lost the game,” Rahul defined.

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Kolkata Knight Riders defeated Lucknow Super Giants by 8 wickets of their IPL 2024 encounter.