India and Hyderabad pacer Umran Malik has produced the fastest delivery of the season in only the fifth game of the season. In the ongoing game between Hyderabad and Rajasthan, he bowled at 149.2 kmph. The incident happened in the 15th over of Rajasthan’s innings. On the first ball of the over, Malik bowled a fullish delivery to Devdutt Padikkal. The latter was standing outside the leg stump.
As a result, he was away from the line of the ball which led to the loss of his wicket. Facing the thunderbolt from Malik from outside the line, the bat failed to come down in time and ratted the stumps with the off-stump doing a cartwheel. After bowling at 149.2, the Jammu and Kashmir player has bowled the fastest ball of the season already.
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149 kph by Umran Malik to cleans up Padikkal ? pic.twitter.com/mSS8RTKBjA
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Talking about the game, the home side, Hyderabad won the toss and elected to bowl first. The team is led by Bhuvneshwar Kumar as Aiden Markram is currently playing for South Africa in the ongoing second ODI against the Netherlands. Meanwhile, in the game, Rajasthan amassed 203/5 at the end of the innings.
Opening pair, Yashasvi Jaiswal and Jos Buttler scored the fifties each alongside skipper Sanju Samson. Despite the middle-order not doing well enough, Shimron Hetmyer (22*) played a cameo and helped the team reach such a total. At the time of writing, Trent Boult has struck twice for the pink brigade and bowled a two-wicket maiden in the first over of the second innings.
Umran Malik was the second-fastest bowler last season
The right-arm pacer was making records last year. During the 15th season, he became the fastest Indian bowler with 157 kmph per hour. Till the final game of the tournament, Lockie Ferguson bowled 157.3 and ran away with the fastest delivery of the season award. Not to forget, his team Gujarat also won the title as well, beating Rajasthan out of it.
