GT vs MI | Twitter enthralled as stone-cold Kishore stares into fuming Pandya's soul

Having just faced four balls in the innings, Hardik came up against Sai in the 15th over with the left-arm spinner set to finish his quota for the day. The veteran began with two dot balls and albeit his counterpart managed a riposte with a boundary off the legs, Sai came back well with a looped up delivery on length. Hardik charged down the deck hoping to go big but was foiled by Sai's execution and ended up simply defending the ball back to the 28-year-old who pickinf up the Kookaburra and pretended to sling it at the stumps. Hardik was in no mood to take any sledging and he dismissively waved away Sai asking him to return to the mark but the bowler was equal to the contest as he maintained eye contact while mockingly rubbing his palm across the pitch before turning around. It was enough to trigger Hardik to walk towards Sai and have a word, yet nothing gave as Sai stood still as a tree to maintain authority over the situation.

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