Lucknow: He played in IPL Kolkata Knight Ridersfor But Lucknow is his home, he plays domestic cricket for Uttar Pradesh. And in that field, in that city, Rinku Singh shined. Be it batting or fielding, in the match against Lucknow Super Giants (LSG vs KKR) Rinku did not spare any efforts. After watching his performance, Dale Steyn said, ‘Rinku woke up this morning determined to win the match’. Rinku honestly played like that.

KKR have lost back to back matches this season. Rinku was also not performing well. Rinku also faced criticism. However, in the last two matches, he returned to the run and with him came back to victory KKRAnd On Super Sunday, against Lucknow Super Giants, he seemed to take the field with extra enthusiasm. After a fast innings, the extra passion and excitement was evident in him while fielding. Own the match IPL After scoring a career-best unbeaten 83, Rinku took a total of five catches, four in the stipulated 20 overs and one in the super over. He hit the winning shot in the super over as a man of merit. He was also declared the man of the match.

At the end of the match, Deep Dasgupta asked if Rinku’s name should be left as ‘Sankatmochan’. With a cheeky smile, he replied, ‘The name Rinku is fine.’ After that, Rinku started talking about his mentality during his innings in the match. He said, ‘I usually get off after losing four or five wickets, so I always try to play according to the match situation. Try to take the match to the end. When I came down today, a lot of wickets had fallen, so I wanted to take one, two runs and take the innings forward, if I got a bad ball I aimed to play big shots.

Asked about his fielding, Rinku admits that he is good at fielding. ‘I’ve loved fielding since childhood, and luckily I’m built and fit enough to run. So I love fielding.’ After two wins in Inform Rinku and Nagade, KKR is finally seeing some glimmer of hope in this season. Knight fans will hope that this light does not go out in the upcoming matches.