Rinku Singh became emotional after getting the title of man of the match in the first innings, Bumrah gave 'magical hug'

Team India, led by Jasprit Bumrah, has taken an unbeatable 2-0 lead by winning the first two T20 matches of the three-match series against Ireland. While India defeated hosts Ireland by 2 in the rain-interrupted first T20I, they won the second match by 33 runs. In the second match played in Dublin, Team India scored 185 runs for 5 wickets while batting first. Rituraj Gaikwad scored 58, Sanju Samson scored 40 and Rinku Singh played a stormy inning of 38 runs in just 21 balls with the help of 2 fours and 3 sixes. In this way, in 2023, Rinku Singh has become the first Indian to hit 23 sixes in the death overs of T20. At the same time, Ireland could only score 152 runs in 20 overs at the loss of 8 wickets. Rinku Singh was adjudged man of the match in his first innings for India.

Rinku Singh, who played a stormy innings against Ireland and changed the course of the match, said that he had full faith in his batting. He was trying to take the innings to the end using his IPL experience. He said emotionally that I have been playing cricket for the last ten years and now hard work is getting rewarded. He is very happy to get the Man of the Match award for his first international innings. Captain Jaspreet Bumrah also hugged Rinku after the match.

Rinku Singh has a strike rate of 200 in the death overs of T20 in 2023. So far this year, Rinku has scored 266 runs in 13 innings in 133 balls at an average of 38. During this, 23 sixes and 16 fours came out of his bat. Rinku Singh believes in hitting more sixes than fours in the last over. Only Australia's Tim David has hit more sixes than Rinku in the death overs this year. He has hit 28 sixes in 22 innings.

In T20 International, Rinku Singh has scored runs at a strike rate of 181. If you look at the T20 records of Indian players, the highest strike rate in the first international innings is of Suryakumar Yadav, who scored runs at a strike rate of 184 in his first T20 International. After this Tilak Verma had 177 and Ishaan Kishan had a strike rate of 175.