{"id":22111,"date":"2025-04-07T20:47:12","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T15:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=585690"},"modified":"2025-04-07T20:47:12","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T15:17:12","slug":"mi-vs-rcb-hardik-pandya-completes-200-t20-wickets-with-double-strike-removes-kohli-and-livingstone-in-one-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/ipl\/mi-vs-rcb-hardik-pandya-completes-200-t20-wickets-with-double-strike-removes-kohli-and-livingstone-in-one-over\/","title":{"rendered":"MI vs RCB: Hardik Pandya completes 200 T20 wickets with double strike, removes Kohli and Livingstone in one over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hardik Pandya turned the game on its head at the Wankhede Stadium with a stunning double breakthrough in the 15th over, removing both <strong>Virat Kohli<\/strong> and <strong>Liam Livingstone<\/strong> in quick succession to complete a major career milestone \u2014 <strong>200 wickets in T20s<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Kohli, who was cruising on <strong>67 off 42 balls<\/strong>, attempted to accelerate after the strategic timeout but mistimed a top-edge off a wide delivery, which was comfortably taken by <strong>Naman Dhir<\/strong> at deep mid-wicket. Just two deliveries later, Liam Livingstone, facing only his second ball, tried an ill-timed scoop shot and ended up offering a simple catch to <strong>Jasprit Bumrah<\/strong> at short third man, walking back for a <strong>two-ball duck<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Hardik\u2019s figures at that point stood at <strong>2.5-0-15-2<\/strong>, playing a crucial role in halting RCB\u2019s momentum. His <strong>200th wicket in T20s<\/strong> came with the dismissal of Livingstone \u2014 a feat that marks his continued impact as a world-class all-rounder in the shortest format.<\/p>\n<p>RCB, who were 143\/2 just an over earlier, suddenly found themselves <strong>three down in quick time<\/strong>, with the tide shifting back in favour of Mumbai Indians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hardik Pandya turned the game on its head at the Wankhede Stadium with a stunning double breakthrough in the 15th\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":42401,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ipl"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}