#3 Axar’s hattrick
The only hat-trick in this year’s IPL came from the arm of Axar Patel. While AB de Villiers and Virat Kohli managed to form the highest runs’ partnership against the Lions, Axar Patel scored the first and only hat-trick of this year’s IPL.
Punjab had put up a meagre score of 154 runs. For Gujarat Lions, it was supposed to be an uncomplicated chase given the strength of their line-up. However, a tormenting spell of 5 balls ruined it all for them as Axar took 4 wickets in that time.
Out of those, 3 came in 3 balls as he took the wickets of Dinesh Karthik, Dwayne Smith and Ravindra Jadeja to etch his name to the milestone.
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