10 April,2017 08:13 AM IST | | mid-day online correspondent
One female fan love KKR batsman Manish Pandey's game against Mumbai Indians on Sunday night so much that she felt he was her Knight Rider in shining armour, not Kolkata's, and proposed to him
Kolkata Knight Riders' Manish Pandey plays a shot during the 2017 Indian Premier League (IPL) Twenty20 match between Mumbai Indians and Kolkata Knight Riders at the Wankhede Cricket Stadium in Mumbai on Sunday night. Pic/AFP
Kolkata Knight Riders star batsman Manish Pandey was on fire during their IPL 2017 match against Mumbai Indians on Sunday at the Wankhede Stadium.
His team was in trouble with the score reading 48/4 at one point, but the Karnataka lad hit a swashbuckling 47-ball 81 to help KKR recover and post a defendable 178/7. The right-hander clobbered two sixes and as many fours off Mumbai pacer Mitchell McClenaghan in the last over of their innings, milking the Kiwi for 23 runs in that single over. Pandey also achieved a are record in IPL by scoring 18 runs in just two legal deliveries.
HERE'S THE VIDEO OF HIM HITTING 18 RUNS IN 2 BALLS
Well, Twitterati loved his game and one female fan even proposed to him.
HERE'S WHAT SOME OTHERS HAD TO SAY ABOUT HIS INNINGS: