Twitter react to Kuldeep Yadav's brilliant hat-trick

09/21/2017

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, 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
— Silly Point (@FarziCricketer) 21 September 2017

Well, this is Rohit Sharma's favourite hunting ground!

Rohit Sharma averages a staggering 107 across all formats in international cricket at the Eden Gardens. #INDvAUS
— Broken Cricket18???? (@BrokenCricket18) 21 September 2017

Expectation....

Good luck Hitman...

Score big n win this one for our nation.#INDvAUS @ImRo45

Rohit Sharma pic.twitter.com/8QaBMwUYzF
— Team Rohit Sharma (@rohitsharma4_5) 21 September 2017

... but in reality!

Rohit Sharma fails at Eden Gardens.

For the Aussies - it's a Durga Puja miracle.#INDvAUS
— Sorabh Pant (@hankypanty) 21 September 2017

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
— 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! 😍 #INDvAUS
— 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
— 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
— 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
— cricket.com.au (@CricketAus) 21 September 2017

Rahane's routine!

Life of a Rahane's innings:

1. Shaky

2. Tentative

4. Glorious

5. Authoritative

6. Tentative again

7. Buckle down

9. Nick & Gone#INDvAUS
— Cric Lama (@Cric_Lama) 21 September 2017

Nervous 90s for Kohli!

Virat Kohli...

His 6th score in the 90s in ODIs

99

96*

94

92

91

91#IndvAus
— Mohandas Menon (@mohanstatsman) 21 September 2017

Now that's an interesting fact!

Rohit Sharma once made more than this by himself at Eden Gardens! #INDvAUS
— Gaurav Kalra (@gauravkalra75) 21 September 2017

What a way to open the Australian innings!

He misses to the leeefffffffffft,

He misses on the riiiiiiiiiiight,

This Hilton Cartwright,

His batting is shyte 😂😂😂
— if Shrikant,who can? (@HomerOpines) 21 September 2017

When things were going well for Australia, this happened!

Classic stumping by #Dhoni. pic.twitter.com/fDTMsFZec6
— Gopichand Malineni (@megopichand) 21 September 2017

When you step out from crease when Dhoni is behind the stumps... pic.twitter.com/sFcEphhiFm
— 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.

Third Indian to Take Hattrick in ODI.

Dhoni As Cool Always 😍😎🤗#INDvsAUS pic.twitter.com/rNz8o8L9q0
— Naveen (@naveenarendran) 21 September 2017

Kuldeep joins an elite list of players!

Hat-tricks for India in ODIs:

Chetan Sharma, 1987

Kapil Dev, 1991

KULDEEP YADAV, 2017* #INDvAUS
— Umang Pabari (@UPStatsman) 21 September 2017

Sirji with a cameo!

Sir Jadeja can swing the match in India's favour even without being in the playing XI #Respect 🙏#IndvsAus
— Abhishek 🇮🇳 #408 (@ImAbhishek7_) 21 September 2017

Eden Gardens is special for a reason!