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Rajat Patidar (Image Credit : Twitter)
The Bangalore team have a huge fan following. They love their players and cheer for them even after the completion of an Indian T20 League season. One such incident was witnessed at the Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bangalore on June 26. Mumbai and Madhya Pradesh were playing the Ranji Trophy Final and it was the final day of the game. MP's Rajat Patidar came out to bat at number five.
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The scorecard read 66/3 with the team chasing a modest total of 108 runs to win. The eventual winners had lost the wickets of Himanshi Mantri and the centurions of the first innings, Yash Dubey and Shubham Sharma. As Patidar was walking out to bat, the fans cheered for him and the Bangalore franchise in a video uploaded on Twitter.
The video has been watched by 22.5 thousand people and counting. Also, it has got 800 likes and counting.
Watch the video here
The Chinnaswamy crowd certainly knows how to cheer for their own. Rajat Patidar walks out at no.5 and the crowd goes berserk. Chants of RCB followed by ‘Patidar Bhai’.#MPvsMUM #RanjiTrophy pic.twitter.com/RogctWvZjT
— Sayantan Bhattacharjee (@Sayantan90s) June 26, 2022
Fans might remember the MP player for rescuing the Red Army in the Indian T20 League 2022. Before he joined the team, they were struggling with the bat. He joined the team after Luvnith Sisodia was ruled out due to injury. The right-hander played eight games and scored 333 runs. This includes his maiden hundred against Lucknow in the Eliminator game.
Talking about his performance in the Ranji final, he scored a quick hundred in the first innings. This innings helped the 1998-99 finalists push Mumbai away from the game. The central India team went to score 536 all-out, in reply to Mumbai's 374. In the second innings, the 29-year-old scored 30 not and scored the winning run. With this victory, the team has won their maiden title after being renamed in 1956.
Before 1956, MP was known as Holkar and had won four titles in 10 finals from 1944 to 1955. Since the renaming of the state, the team had played only on final in 1998-99. They played the same opponents who won the final after MP collapsed from 108/3 to 150 all-out in the last session of the game.