Twitter reacts as Gambhir shocks fans by sending Narine to open innings

04/13/2017

The Twitterati lost it when Gautam Gambhir decided to replace Chris Lynn with Sunil Narine as his opening partner against KXIP. Narine proved to be an able deputy for the Aussie, grabbing the opportunity with both hands with a brilliant 37 off 18 balls.

Winning the toss, Gautam Gambhir cited the dew factor as the biggest reason for opting to field first as IPL returned to the Eden Gardens. The hosts, KKR handed Colin de Grandhomme his first cap in the IPL along with Umesh Yadav and Piyush Chawla also walked into the team to replace Chris Lynn, Ankit Rajpoot, and Kuldeep Yadav. Punjab made just one change bringing Ishant Sharma to the squad in place of T. Natarajan.

Brief scores: Kings XI Punjab 170/9 (David Miller 28, Manan Vohra 28; Umesh Yadav 4/33, Chris Woakes 2/30) lost to Kolkata Knight Riders 171/2 (Gautam Gambhir 72*, Sunil Narine 37; Varun Aaron 1/23, Axar Patel 1/36) by 8 wickets.

Wonderful wordplay!

Knights now performing like kings, Kings suddenly beginning to look like pawns...
— Cricketwallah (@cricketwallah) April 13, 2017

Exchange of roles!

Looks like saha and miller have exchanged their personalities #KKRvKXIP
— Ambar_सरिया (@Ambar_Sariya) April 13, 2017

Legendary achievement unlocked!

This IPL

Best Batting Team - RCB

Best Bowling Team - GL

Legendary Fielding - KKR#KKRvKXIP
— Kaun Mai Ka Laal Hai (@SRKpePHD) April 13, 2017

Good old childhood memories!

Sunil narine's fielding reminds me of school cricket. Underarm. #IPL #KKRvKXIP
— Abhijeet Deobhakta (@AbhiDeobhakta) April 13, 2017

Gambhir after fumbling the catch and finally getting it!

Gambhir after taking the catch be like - pic.twitter.com/83f6JwkojD
— Eмρєror (@SRKsGladiator_) April 13, 2017

Gambhir, the with an amazing twist! G.R.R.Martin who?

Surprise change at the top of the order. It's not Unhappa who has walked out, it's Narine.. #KKRvKXIP
— AHSAN SHEHZAD (@ahsanshehzad63) April 13, 2017

Kids : Let Axar bat at 3rd position

Legends : Let Narine open the innings #KKRvKXIP #FollowingTheTrend
— Siddharth Srivastava (@Siddharthcs1104) April 13, 2017

KKR fans after finding out Narine was opening the KKR batting!

When KKR replace Chris Lynn with Sunil Narine as opener.... #IPL #KKRvKXIP pic.twitter.com/nKmyND3zuB
— Chetan Narula (@chetannarula) April 13, 2017

It turned out to be a punishment for Kings XI Punjab!

Gambhir opened with Nairne as punishment for drop catches. #IPL2017 #KKRvKXIP
— Riken Pandejee (@riken007) April 13, 2017

I am sure he has Narine in his fantasy team!

Sunil Narine Opening... Either Gambhir is on Drugs or his Fantasy

team power player must be Narine

😂😂😂#KKRvKXIP
— அருண் குமாரு (@arunttheboss) April 13, 2017

Uncanny resemblance!

ishant sharma is increasingly looking like malnourished jason gillespie
— one tip one hand_ (@OneTipOneHand_) April 13, 2017

The third question is why is Narine starting ahead of Uthappa!

Two questions to which India wants an answer badly,

1. Why kattapa betrayed bahubali?

2. Why #KXIP selected Ishant Sharma?
— Baby Bhogle 🏏 (@BabyBhogle) April 4, 2017

The evolution of Sir Ishant Sharma!