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Clever Tactics! How Jofra Archer Fooled Shreyas Iyer With His Special Trick Ball

Anurag Dasgupta

How Archer fooled Iyer [Source: AP Photo] How Archer fooled Iyer [Source: AP Photo]

When on song, there is no better bowler than Jofra Archer in the IPL circuit, and the Rajasthan Royals pacer proved his worth once again with a menacing spell which also included the wicket of Punjab Kings captain, Shreyas Iyer. Archer fooled the PBKS batter with a cleverly disguised ball and shattered his stumps.

How Archer fooled Shreyas Iyer

Shreyas Iyer was in red-hot form heading into the chase against the RR side. The home side, Punjab lost Priyansh Arya for a duck and he became Archer's first victim of the day. However, when the captain came on strike, he looked assured as the fast bowler pitched up a delivery and the righty batter smacked it for a boundary.

He again pitched it fuller as Iyer once again blasted a four. On the fourth delivery, Jofra Archer deliberately bowled a short of a length ball to pepper Iyer with it. Everyone knows his struggles with short-pitched ball and Archer tried to expose it. After that delivery, Iyer had made up his mind that the next ball will be a shorter ball once again as he stayed inside his crease.

However, Archer was smart enough as he went full and straight and Iyer had no time to react as he slogged and missed as the ball smashed his stumps.

PBKS in deep trouble chasing 206

Punjab Kings were set a target of 206 to win their third successive game in the IPL, but the task was made difficult as Priyansh Arya departed early and after a couple of nice shots, Iyer went back too. 

The joy continued for RR bowlers as Sandeep Sharma came into the attack and immediately got the breakthrough with the scalp of Marcus Stoinis. Chasing 206, PBKS are currently 33-3.