Royal Challengers Bengaluru pacer Yash Dayal recently posted a story through his Instagram handle which featured the legendary India and Chennai Super Kings captain MS Dhoni. Dayal posted the iconic moment in which he claimed the big wicket of Dhoni, which helped RCB reach the IPL 2024 playoffs.
It was a must-win game for both the teams at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium. With 17 needed off the last over, legendary finisher MS Dhoni was on strike for CSK and Dayal had the ball in his hands for RCB.
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Yash Dayal comes back after a six from MS Dhoni
Dhoni smashed the first ball for a cracking six, thus putting immense pressure on the bowler ahead of the next ball. However, Dayal held on to the nerves and bowled a well-disguised slower ball off the back of the hand.
Dhoni, in an attempt to clear the boundary once again, mistimed it this time and was caught by Swapnil Singh at the midwicket boundary. It was a huge moment in the game and probably turned the game towards RCB. Dayal successfully defended the remaining runs in his next balls to take his team home.
Dayal brutally slammed by fans for posting a story on MS Dhoni
It was a defining moment in Dayal’s cricket career. The left-arm seamer had suddenly reinvented himself and even found himself on RCB’s retention list ahead of the more experienced Mohammed Siraj.
Recently, he shared Dhoni’s wicket in the IPL 2024 match on his Instagram story. However, his action didn’t please the fans and he was brutally trolled by them. Some of the users even called him immature for his actions.
Dhoni’s wicket is a very big achievement for RCB.
The Aura βΎοΈπ₯Ά. pic.twitter.com/fpmJFJPBpA
β MAHIYANKβ’ (@Mahiyank_78) December 2, 2024
It’s been 5 months since Dhoni single-handedly gave Yash Dayal a career just because of new ball change and caught on near boundary and he got retained instead of siraj talk about aura https://t.co/3tkg7TTOag
β ` (@santhoxsh) December 2, 2024
Yash Dayal’s Instagram story, need to humble this clown next year.pic.twitter.com/MePJ7YHEYV
β Vaibhav’ (@WhyyySoMuch) December 2, 2024
Yash Dayal Instagram Story
Very immature player π€¦ pic.twitter.com/JzlFbHIS9gβ πππ«ππ§ππππ’ππ§β’ (@91_79Wankhede_) December 2, 2024
Dhoni wicket is Yash Dayal’s biggest achievement .
Celebrate it brother for a lifetime . You never ever get Dhoni wicket in your IPL carrier. https://t.co/pyFJrGUSi0β Aashutosh Pandey (@msdainaashu) December 2, 2024
Both players were retained by their teams
Both Yash and MS Dhoni will be playing for their respective teams, Royal Challengers Bengaluru and Chennai Super Kings, in IPL 2025. Both the players were retained under the uncapped players list of this year’s IPL auction.
Yash is an emerging left-arm seamer who is capable of playing all the formats for India. The 26-year-old is one of the three players retained by RCB ahead of this year’s auction, alongside Virat Kohli and Rajat Patidar.