IPL 2021 Final CSK vs KKR: Shubman Gill gets HUGE reprieve, ball declared ‘dead’ due to THIS reason, Watch

CSK believed they had finally got a breakthrough in the 10th over of the match with the score on 79 when Shubman Gill skied Ravindra Jadeja and Ambati Rayudu took a brilliant running catch with Punjab batsman on 27.

Luck was on Kolkata Knight Riders side in the IPL 2021 Final against Chennai Super Kings on Friday (October 15). Chasing a mammoth target of 193 to win against MS Dhoni’s side, KKR got the perfect start through their young opening partnership of Shubman Gill and Venkatesh Iyer.

CSK believed they had finally got a breakthrough in the 10th over of the match with the score on 79 when Gill skied Ravindra Jadeja and Ambati Rayudu took a brilliant running catch with Punjab batsman on 27. Dhoni & Co began to celebrate immediately but the umpires sent the decision up to the third umpire.

While the general feeling was that they were checking for no-ball by the bowler, replays revealed that the ball had touched the Spidercam wire and had to declared a ‘dead ball’. It was a huge reprieve for KKR, as Gill then immediately smashed Jadeja for two successive boundaries.