Twitter react to Kuldeep Yadav's brilliant hat-trick
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The Twitterati went into meltdown as Kuldeep Yadav became only the 3rd Indian to pick up a hat-trick in ODIs after Chetan Sharma and Kapil Dev. When the momentum appeared to be with Australia, Kuldeep came in a wrecked havoc and stopped the visitors from chasing down the 253-run target.
Brief scores: India 252/10 (Virat Kohli 92, Ajinkya Rahane 55; Nathan Coulter-Nile 3/51, Kane Richardson 3/55) beat Australia 202/10 (Steve Smith 59, Marcus Stoinis 62*; Kuldeep Yadav 3/54, ย Bhuvneshwar Kumar 3/9) by 50 runs.
Here are some tweets from the match:
Once the teams were confirmed!
India already 20 runs short with no Faulkner in the Australian side. #INDvAUS
โ Silly Point (@FarziCricketer) 21 September 2017
Well, this is Rohit Sharma's
Rohit Sharma averages a staggering 107 across all formats in international cricket at the Eden Gardens. #INDvAUS
โ Broken Cricket18???? (@BrokenCricket18) 21 September 2017
Expectation....
Good luck Hitman...
โ Team Rohit Sharma (@rohitsharma4_5) 21 September 2017
Score big n win this one for our nation.#INDvAUS @ImRo45
Rohit Sharma pic.twitter.com/8QaBMwUYzF
... but in reality!
Rohit Sharma fails at Eden Gardens.
โ Sorabh Pant (@hankypanty) 21 September 2017
For the Aussies - it's a Durga Puja miracle.#INDvAUS
Thankfully Virat Kohli and Rahane were there to rescue India from the early blow!
FIFTY! Virat Kohli brings up his 45th ODI 50 @Paytm #INDvAUS pic.twitter.com/L679NqoCA2
โ BCCI (@BCCI) 21 September 2017
50 for Rahane! Don't know for how long he'd be around opening for the ODI team, but he has treated us with those drives today! ๐ #INDvAUS
โ Manya (@CSKian716) 21 September 2017
Looked like it was a repeat of Bangladesh for the Australian players!
Aussie players dropping like flies in Kolkata - half the team look either ill or injured
โ John Etheridge (@JohnSunCricket) 21 September 2017
But then Disaster struck for India!
Oh, he was looking really good was Rahane. He will be mighty disappointed. Was set for a big one
โ Harsha Bhogle (@bhogleharsha) 21 September 2017
Chopped on! Kohli (92) has to depart, Coulter-Nile again the destroyer. Punter's record lives to see another day, India 5-197. #INDvAUS
โ cricket.com.au (@CricketAus) 21 September 2017
Rahane's routine!
Life of a Rahane's innings:
โ Cric Lama (@Cric_Lama) 21 September 2017
1. Shaky
2. Tentative
4. Glorious
5. Authoritative
6. Tentative again
7. Buckle down
9. Nick & Gone#INDvAUS
Nervous 90s for Kohli!
Virat Kohli...
โ Mohandas Menon (@mohanstatsman) 21 September 2017
His 6th score in the 90s in ODIs
99
96*
94
92
91
91#IndvAus
Now that's an interesting fact!ย
Rohit Sharma once made more than this by himself at Eden Gardens! #INDvAUS
โ Gaurav Kalra (@gauravkalra75) 21 September 2017
What a way to open the Australian innings!
He misses to the leeefffffffffft,
โ if Shrikant,who can? (@HomerOpines) 21 September 2017
He misses on the riiiiiiiiiiight,
This Hilton Cartwright,
His batting is shyte ๐๐๐
When things were going well for Australia, this happened!
Classic stumping by #Dhoni. pic.twitter.com/fDTMsFZec6
โ Gopichand Malineni (@megopichand) 21 September 2017
When you step out from crease when Dhoni is behind the stumps... pic.twitter.com/sFcEphhiFm
โ Sarcastic Dude (@Sarcasticdudee) 21 September 2017
But then the real storm hit Australia and its name was Kuldeep Yadav!
Kuldeep Yadav Hattrick wicket vs Australia.
โ Naveen (@naveenarendran) 21 September 2017
Third Indian to Take Hattrick in ODI.
Dhoni As Cool Always ๐๐๐ค#INDvsAUS pic.twitter.com/rNz8o8L9q0
Kuldeep joins an elite list of players!
Hat-tricks for India in ODIs:
โ Umang Pabari (@UPStatsman) 21 September 2017
Chetan Sharma, 1987
Kapil Dev, 1991
KULDEEP YADAV, 2017* #INDvAUS
Sirji with a cameo!
Sir Jadeja can swing the match in India's favour even without being in the playing XI #Respect ๐#IndvsAus
โ Abhishek ๐ฎ๐ณ #408 (@ImAbhishek7_) 21 September 2017
Eden Gardens is special for a reason!
Same Eden, another hattrick! @imkuldeep18 @harbhajan_singh #INDvAUS
โ Vikrant Gupta (@vikrantgupta73) 21 September 2017
These two have been immense in this series!
Australia play Kuldeep and Chahal like they are dodging grenades in a war zone #INDvAUS
โ Gaurav Kalra (@gauravkalra75) 21 September 2017
