Akash Chopra Praised Faf du Plessis For His Brilliant Innings Despite Injury
IPL 2023: Akash Chopra Praised Faf du Plessis For His Brilliant Innings Despite Injury. Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Punjab Kings match was played on Thursday afternoon.
In this match, Bangalore won by performing brilliantly. Due to an injury in this match played in Mohali, Faf du Plessis played as an impact player. Former cricketer Akash Chopra was surprised to see that he played an excellent inning.
Faf du Plessis made a century partnership with Kohli:-
Faf du Plessis landed as an impact player in the match played against Punjab. He opened the innings with Virat Kohli.
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Du Plessis scored 84 off 56 balls. He hit 5 fours and 5 sixes. Seeing them, it was not felt that they were injured. He shared a 137-run partnership with Kohli.
Akash Chopra said this:-
Reviewing the game in a video shared on his YouTube channel, Chopra pointed out that the ‘Impact Player’ rule helped Royal Challengers Bangalore and Faf du Plessis.
He said that “Faf du Plessis played as an impact player. He has a muscle injury in his ribs but the boy is still playing. God only knows how he is playing.
Rohit Sharma played that day due to the ‘Impact Player’ rule and Faf played here. Which is really a big blessing that he is at least getting a chance to play.”
‘When he came to bat, it seemed that he would play slowly’:-
The former cricketer further said, “When he came to bat, I thought he would not hit that much, but he hit a lot.
Both (du Plessis and Virat Kohli) batted very well and shared a 137-run partnership. It looked like they would score 195-200.
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But they were not scored. You could only reach 175. So I thought they slowed down a bit towards the end.”