Nitish Rana on RR snub: “One person never takes the call”

Nitish Rana scored a quick 51 off 28 balls and was at the crease until the 18th over of the chase, while Yashasvi Jaiswal also contributed 51 off 37 balls. Despite their performances, the management didn’t pick either of them for the Super Over. Instead, they sent in Shimron Hetmyer and Riyan Parag, surprising many. They lined up Jaiswal to bat next if a wicket fell, but they didn’t list Rana among the three players for the Super Over.

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Rajasthan Royals’ Super Over Decision Backfires in Close Finish

RR’s decision did not turn out well as DC’s Mitchell Starc nailed yorkers and used the reverse swing to his advantage to cramp the Hetmyer for room to start the Super Over with a dot ball. The Australian pacer missed his mark on the next ball and conceded a four, but he regained his rhythm on the third ball with another low full toss. Hetmyer took a single.

Riyan Parag hit Starc’s low full toss over third man for a boundary which was also called a no-ball. The match took another drastic turn after it looked like RR would easily cross 15 with three balls remaining. In the next ball, Parag and Jaiswal were run out as RR were bowled out for only 11.

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The total didn’t prove to be enough as KL Rahul and Tristian Stubbs hit two sixes in the first three balls of Sandeep Sharma’s Super Over to seal a famous win for DC.

After the match, Nitish Rana said it was the RR management’s call not to send him for the Super Over and instead go with Riyan Parag and Shimron Hetmyer. Rana said the questions would have been different if Hetmyer had hit a couple of sixes in the Super Over, but he maintained he didn’t have a different answer.

“The management takes the call, not one person. The captain is there along with two other senior players and coaches. If Shimron Hetmyer had hit two sixes, then you wouldn’t be asking this question. I will give the same answer. I don’t have any other answer. Whatever decisions we took was absolutely right. Hetmyer is our finisher, that everyone knows. He has delivered in the past,” Rana said in the press conference.

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