'Sala 3D player samjha tha,apun 360° player hai' - Fans react as Vijay Shankar smashes fastest half-century for Gujarat Titans in IPL against KKR

The star Gujarat Titans all-rounder Vijay Shankar left everyone stunned with his swashbuckling knock in the ongoing match against Kolkata Knight Riders. He also smashed the fastest half-century for Gujarat Titans since their arrival in the Indian Premier League. Vijay Shankar played a blistering knock of 63 runs off just 24 balls with four boundaries and five sixes to his name.

Notably, Vijay Shankar is appearing in this match for Titans in place of the skipper and star all-rounder Hardik Pandya. The cricket fans were also elated following this amazing knock from the Tamil Nadu all-rounder. They took to Twitter and showered the praises and appreciated the way he played and smashed KKR bowlers all around the corners of the ground.

Here's how fans reacted:

Vijay Shankar be like -

Sala 3D player samjha tha,apun 360° player hai 🤣🤣

— Mr.Rawat (@Iamrawat_2) April 9, 2023

Lagta hai number 4 gaya pic.twitter.com/4RA8LDuOZv

— keki nepali (@maya14557467) April 9, 2023

As a KKR fan pic.twitter.com/V94JewMD3F

— Anirban Ghoshᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠ (@Anirban_Ghosh_) April 9, 2023

World Cup year and vijay shankar knocking the doors of number 4 🌝

— Vishal (@vishals_corner) April 9, 2023

Vijay Shankar became Pushpa today 😂

— Sohail. (@iamsohail__1) April 9, 2023

Bhai ye Vijay world cup year maine kyon acha khelta

— Mowgli (@Dranzer_Bit) April 9, 2023

Where are the words like madness,masterclass,take a bow for Shankar? Oh wait he replaced Csk player Rayudu in wc 😭

— W. (@CFCstorm_) April 9, 2023

3D player for a reason 😅🔥

— Ayush Anand (@crictopher014) April 9, 2023

He's 8D player no doubt 🔥🔥

— RoHitman (@_darsh45) April 9, 2023

Aaj Vijay Shankar ke andar viru paa ki aata ghus gayi lagta hai 🤣😅

— Vipin Jain 🇮🇳 (@vj17061985) April 9, 2023

VIJAY SHANKAR today...... pic.twitter.com/uVdwEe8msW

— INDIAN 🇮🇳 (@GameXYZ726098) April 9, 2023

Speaking of the current action of the match, Gujarat Titans have posted a big total of 204 runs for the loss of four wickets in the allotted 20 overs. Other than Vijay Shanka’s blistering knock, last match’s star, Sai Sudarshan took the stage yet another time and scored 53 runs off 38 runs with three boundaries and two sixes on his credit.

Other than these two, the young opener Shubman Gill also played a crucial knock of 39 runs with five boundaries to help Gujarat Titans go past 200. The veteran KKR spinner Sunil Narine scalped three wickets by conceding 33 runs in his quota of four overs.

While chasing the target of 205 runs, Kolkata Knight Riders have scored 37 runs for the loss of two wickets in 5.1 overs. At the time of filling this copy, Venkatesh Iyer and skipper Nitish Rana were there in the middle on the individual scores of 13 and 3 runs respectively. Titans’ pacers Mohammed Shami and Alzarri Joseph have scalped one wicket each so far in the second innings.

Notably, Gujarat Titans have registered two successive wins in the two matches they played in the IPL 2023 so far.