Zoom News : Sep 28, 2021, 08:09 AM
Cricket Desk: Royal Challengers Bangalore fast bowler Harshal Patel took a hat-trick against the defending champions Mumbai Indians on Sunday in the Indian Premier League 2021 encounter in Dubai. The moment occurred in the 17th over of MI innings, who started off well in the 166-run chase, but then kept losing wickets at regular intervals.RCB captain handed the ball to Harshal in the 17th over, and on the first ball itself, he dismissed Hardik Pandya. The MI allrounder flung his bat on a slow one, but mistimed his shot, and Kohli took an easy catch.On the next ball, Harshal tricked Kieron Pollard with another slow delivery and the West Indies bowler had to return to the hut. Harshal completed his hat-trick by dismissing Rahul Chahar LBW on the first ball for a golden duck.This is the first hat-trick of the season. Harshal also became the third RCB bowler to take a hat-trick in IPL, with Praveen Kumar and Samuel Badree being the first two to do so.Harshal finished the match with figures of 4/17 as RCB bowled out MI for 111. This is the first time Bangalore had bowled out Mumbai Indians in the IPL. RCB also ended their losing streak in UAE - which stood at 7 consecutive games before this.