Cricketers of the Week: April 9th – April 15th

#5 Andrew Tye

Tye’s sensational bowling capped off with a hat-trick gave Gujarat Lions their first win this IPL

Gujarat Lions tasted their first success this IPL thanks to wildcard Western Australia bowler, Andrew Tye, who picked the second hat-trick of the IPL, against Rising Pune Supergiant, registering a rare IPL event, where two hat-tricks were taken on the same day. Tye bowled a sensational final over on a flat batting wicket at Rajkot, where he gave away just four runs and picked up the wickets of Ankit Sharma, the well-set Manoj Tiwary and then Shardul Thakur as Pune mustered 171 in their 20 overs.

Tye ended with match figures of 5-17 in his 4 overs. Earlier, Tye had also picked up the big wickets of Ben Stokes and Rahul Tripathi who got Pune off to a bright start with a 17-ball 33. Gujarat chased down the target easily scoring 172 in just 18 overs, thanks to contributions from four out of their top five batsmen, Brendon McCullum and Dwayne Smith scoring 49 and 47 respectively, adding 94 in just 53 balls for the opening stand.