Ravi Bishnoi didn’t just take catch but caught the match instead: Ajay Jadeja

The Lucknow Super Giants picked up a 33-run win over the Gujarat Titans in their IPL 2024 match on Sunday night. JioCinema IPL experts Brett Lee and Ajay Jadeja discussed the bowling spell from Yash Thakur (5/30) and the superb catch by Ravi Bishnoi off his own bowling to dismiss Kane Williamson, exclusively on ‘Match Centre Live’. Excerpts:

Ajay Jadeja spoke on Yash Thakur’s bowling: The first wicket of Shubman Gill that he took was the most important one, and the wickets he picked up at the end were a bonus. With Krunal Pandya picking up three wickets in the middle overs, LSG found themselves in a strong position. Thakur came back and finished the game. He didn’t just take five wickets, he raised his hands when LSG needed it most.

Brett Lee spoke on Thakur: To see a guy get 5/30 in 3.5 overs, it’s absolutely spectacular. I liked the way he bowled. Like batsmen, you have to go through the gears as a bowler. You have different roles to play in different situations of the game. He bowled well with a newish ball, came well into the middle period, and at the backend, went into proper death bowling picking up a fifer, the best figures for IPL 2024 so far.

Ajay Jadeja spoke on Ravi Bishnoi's catch: We’ve seen Bishnoi take some big catches, but the one he took today, it felt like he didn’t just take a catch but caught the match instead. It isn’t easy for any bowler, but this one had already crossed him and he almost went backward to catch it. He was in the air, and it was such an important catch that flipped the match.

LSG defeated GT by 33 runs in Lucknow and jumped to the third slot in the points table of IPL 2024 with six points in four games.