When Ashish Nehra’s fan came on field to seek his blessings
The fan was seen touching Ashish Nehra’s feet and seeking his blessing.
SNS | New Delhi | November 2, 2017 5:13 pm
India’s veteran fast bowler Ashish Nehra drew curtains on his 18-year-long international cricket career in the backdrop of an overwhelming home crowd at the Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi, on Wednesday night.
The 1883-established stadium that holds up to a capacity of more than 40,000 spectators saw fans turning up in huge number for Nehra’s farewell game.
In the honour, Nehra was presented with a memento by skipper Virat Kohli and MS Dhoni. Besides this, the DDCA placed a hoarding reading ‘Ashish Nehra End’ above the Kotla sightscreen.
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The two screens showed the bowling clips and statistics of the Delhi pacer with the trending hashtag #NehraJi.
However, the most heart-warming moment came for Nehra during the match when one of his fans came into the field crossing all the security to meet the cricketer. The fan was also seen touching Nehra’s feet and seeking his blessing.
The warhorse speedster appeared in good shape and bowled his four overs very well. Even though he couldn’t claim a single wicket, India won the 1st T20I by 53 runs to take a 1-0 lead in the three-T20I series.
With 10 points from nine matches so far, the Yellow Brigade share similar figures with Lucknow Super Giants, Sunrisers Hyderabad and Delhi Capitals, and as such will be desperately looking to break away from the logjam
The 35-year-old came back strongly with an unbeaten 70 off 44 balls in RCB’s win against Gujarat Titans on Sunday afternoon. He batted at a strike rate of 159.09 and hit six fours and three sixes, to go past the 500-run mark for the 7th time in his IPL career.
Karthik started the last T20 World Cup in Australia as India’s designated keeper before losing his spot ahead of the team’s semifinal defeat to England.