Who is Rahul Tewatia? Rajasthan all-rounder leads team to highest Dream11 IPL run-chase

Rajasthan defeated Punjab in a high-scoring last-ball thriller at Sharjah in ninth match of ongoing Dream11 Indian Premier League 2020 (IPL 2020) season. Sanju Samson, for his six-len 42-ball 85, was judged as ‘Player of Match’ for his run-chase heroics. ditionally, Rajasthan’s 27-year-old uncapped Indian cricketer Rahul Tewatia also played his part with bat by scoring a whirlwind 53 off just 31 balls.

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Dream11 IPL 2020: Rajasthan run chase vs Punjab becomes Dream11 IPL highest run chase

In recent Rajasthan vs Punjab Dream11 IPL 2020 match at Sharjah on Sunday, September 27, Rajasthan skipper Steve Smith earlier won toss and opted to field first. Punjab openers KL Rahul and Mayank Agarwal opened to a 183-run first-wicket stand where latter slammed his first-ever IPL century. In all, Punjab batsmen compiled 223-2 off ir 20 overs.

In response, Rajasthan lost both ir openers (Jos Buttler and Steve Smith) upon reaching 100 in ninth over of ir run chase. Captain Smith surprised one-and-all with his decision of bringing an inexperienced Rahul Tewatia into crease ahe of Dream11 IPL veteran Robin Uthappa. Tewatia struggled to put bat to ball in his first 19 balls as he scored just 6 runs. However, he later unleashed with a flurry of sixes en route to his match-winning 31-ball 53, with his next 12 balls yielding 45 runs. Rajasthan eventually won match with a memorable rearguard fightback to register highest Dream11 IPL run-chase of all time.

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Who is Rahul Tewatia? star who shone in Rajasthan run chase vs Punjab

To answer ‘Who is Rahul Tewatia?’ query, it is important to kw his cricketing career besides his Dream11 IPL 2020’s recent exploits for Rajasthan. all-rounder has been representing Haryana in domestic circuit ever since his me his First-class debut in 2013. He me his List A debut for same team some four years later during 2016-17 Indian domestic season.

Across his domestic appearances, Rahul Tewatia has scored 190 and 484 runs in First-class and List A respectively at avers of 17.27 and 37.23. He has also taken 44 wickets in two formats collectively. Rahul Tewatia has also played 50 T20 matches, out of which 22 have come from playing in Dream11 IPL for three different franchises, i.e. Delhi, Punjab and his current side Rajasthan. Tewatia has been around for a long time in tournament, having me his debut in competition back in 2014 with Delhi Capitals.

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Steve Smith, Jos Buttler in Rajasthan squ for Dream11 IPL 2020

Steve Smith (captain), Mahipal Lomror, Manan Vohra, Yashasvi Jaiswal, David Miller, Aniruddha Joshi, Ben Stokes, Riyan Parag, Sanju Samson, Jos Buttler, Robin Uthappa, Anuj Rawat, Shreyas Gopal, Shashank Singh, Rahul Tewatia, Mayank Markande, Jofra Archer, Varun Aaron, Ankit Rajpoot, Jaydev Unkat, Kartik Tyagi, Andrew Tye, Tom Curran, Oshane Thomas and Akash Singh.

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