Watch: Chetan Sakariya bags triple wicket maiden in Saurashtra Premier League
Deploying pace, swing, seam and bounce, Chetan Sakariya bowled a match-winning over for his team in SPL T20.
The IPL 2022 may have not gone according to plan for Chetan Sakariya, but the young Indian left-arm pacer is relishing his comeback to the Saurashtra Premier League (SPL) T20 in Rajkot.
Sakariya achieved the rarest of rare feat in T20s with a triple-wicket maiden in one of the league matches of the SPL T20.
Playing for Zalawad Royals, the left-arm pacer delivered one of the best overs of his life and ran through the opposition top-order.
The Halar Heroes batters had no safe response to a top-notch over from the Royals quick, who used his smarts and control to get rid of Snell Patel, Arpit Vasavada and Krunal Karamchandani.
Chetan Sakariya's great day out in SPL T20 in Rajkot
Bowling with the new ball, Chetan Sakariya did Patel and Vasavada via the swing and seam movement with the use of the left-arm angle. Both the batters got out edging the ball outside off-stump to the slip cordon.
While Patel was done in by one that angled across the right-hander, Sakariya had Vasavada with a ball that swung quite prodigiously to take his outside edge.
The young seamer then got Karamchandani with a surprise bouncer, which the right-hander could only balloon to the slip cordon for the easiest of catches.
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A spectacular over with three wickets meant Chetan Sakariya finished with outstanding figures of 3 for 3 off his 2 overs. The pacer did so much irrevocable damage to the Heroes in that over, that he need not roll his for half his quota, as the Royals packed up the opposition for only 80 runs in response to their low-key 134/6.
Sakariya would be delighted to have made such a wonderful return to domestic cricket after a poor IPL 2022, where he felt the heat in his second season of IPL cricket with Delhi Capitals (DC).
The 24-year-old could get into the first XI for only three of Capitals' league matches, taking 3 wickets with 7.63 runs an over - which was a decent turnout for the quick but unlike the one he had a season before with Rajasthan Royals (RR), playing all 14 matches with 14 wickets to his name.