What happened on the evening of 20 August in the Maharaja T20 Trophy can only be called a drama that happened under a well-planned strategy. It was a drama to make fun of the T20 match, which was to be executed by Virat Kohli's RCB team mate Vishak Vijaykumar. This bowler of the league team Gulbarga Mystic, seeing the fear of defeat, adopted every trick to get the match cancelled and finally succeeded in it. Vijaykumar also got full support from his captain Devdutt Padikkal in this drama, who talked to the umpire and kept pressurizing him.

There was a lot of drama in the LIVE match

Gulbarga Mystic faced Mangalore Dragons in a match played on the evening of 20 August. The umpires were trying their best to complete this rain-affected match and bring it to a result. The umpires would have been successful in taking the match to a conclusion if Gulbarga Mystic captain Devdutt Padikkal had not created a drama along with his player Vijay Kumar.

After the break due to rain, the 'game' was visible but it was different from cricket

This incident, which made a mockery of the game in the LIVE match, happened when the match started after the rain break. Batting first, Gulbarga Mystic had scored 169 runs in 20 overs. But, after the rain interruption, the target for Mangalore Dragons was reduced to 61 runs in 7 overs. Now they had scored 46 runs in this in 4.3 overs without losing any wicket, when the match was not stopped due to rain. That is, Mangalore Dragons needed 15 more runs in the remaining 2.3 overs i.e. 15 balls to win.

Pressure was put on the umpire to cancel the match

In such a situation, when the match resumed after the rain, Gulbarga Mystic started seeing their defeat clearly. In such a situation, they became adamant about getting it cancelled. They started pressurizing the umpire. Bowler Vijaykumar and Gulbarga Mystic captain Devdutt Padikkal had a long conversation with the umpire and tried to tell him that the condition of the field was not right. However, the umpire solved their problem by laying mats in the wet area of ​​the field.

Vijay Kumar fell 3 times in his over while bowling

When this did not work, Vijay Kumar fell 3 times in a single over while bowling. The first two times his fall did not affect the umpire much, but when he fell for the third time, he sat down on the field holding his toe. He acted as if he was badly injured. Seeing this, the team captain Devdutt Padikkal went to the field umpires and started asking them to cancel the match, calling the condition of the ground bad. Eventually, the umpires who were seen trying their best to complete the match were forced to stop the game.

This is comedy shit going on in Maharaja.
Rained for a while, Mangalore had a great chance in the game 46/0 in 4.2 ov chasing 170.
Umpires desperate to have a result so they even kept 3-4 mats on patchy areas. Devdutt argued outfield is shit, we can't play. Later Vyshak argued. pic.twitter.com/RKcooqyaVP

— arfan (@Im__Arfan) August 20, 2024

In this way, the match which could have reached its result, ended in a draw. This result might have been in favor of Gulbarga Mystic, because instead of facing defeat, they had to share the points. But, the camp of Mangalore Dragons did not seem happy with this.