‌IPL 2024 | Twitter goes gaga as Nicholas Pooran turns cricket at Chinnaswamy to baseball play with bullseye

Chasing a target of 182 runs piled up by the Lucknow Super Giants, courtesy of Quinton de Kock and Nicholas Pooran’s swashbuckling knocks, RCB fell behind in the chase at the start. Following a 40-run opening stand, the hosts were curtailed to 104/6 in 15 overs. While impact sub Mahipal Lomror kept fighting with a late-blooming cameo, wickets kept tumbling from the other end with one of them involving a brilliant Nicholas Pooran direct hit from the edge of the boundary ropes.

On the first ball of the 18th over, Yash Thakur bowled a fuller delivery around the fourth stump that Lomror failed to time over the inner ring. The southpaw looked to slice it over long off but saw the ball fall just short of Pooran steaming in from the deep. Surprisingly, the Trinidad star aimed for the striker’s end stumps with a tracer bullet-like throw with a stumbled Mayank Dagar failing to make home for a double. Although the RCB all-rounder tumbled just a fraction of a second before the ball hit the stumps, the precision of the lightning-quick throw was such that he would not have made it. 

Seeing this excellent art of fielding from the Caribbean figure, the Twitterverse drew comparisons from baseball games.

What a throw!

One such wild throw!

That is unbelievable!

That's so harsh for RCB!

Good hit!

Mayank couldn't believe it!

LOL! Hahaha!

What a throw!

Massive!

Baseball throw!