da betcris： The two players swapped shirts as a mark of friendship and mutual respect after a last-over finish at the Wankhede Stadium
da bet7： ESPNcricinfo staff17-May-2018The swapping of jerseys at the end of a football match has been a familiar sight for decades. Remember Pele and Bobby More exchanging jerseys and embracing each other after Brazil defeated England 1-0 in the 1970 World Cup? Cricket got a taste of it when Kings XI Punjab’s KL Rahul and Mumbai Indians’ Hardik Pandya swapped jerseys as a mark of friendship and mutual respect after a see-sawing last-over finish in the IPL at Wankhede Stadium. “We’ve seen this happening a lot in football and Hardik and I are good friends,” Rahul told . “I felt it will be nice to collect some jerseys and bring that tradition to cricket as well. We didn’t speak about his earlier. As we were talking, I said ‘give me your jersey’ and he wanted my jersey too. So, we exchanged jerseys. It’s a nice, nice thing.”The IPL is a strange place where friends turn foes. Delhi team-mates Virat Kohli and Gautam Gambhir once had a go at each other in a game between Royal Challengers and Kolkata Knight Riders, with another then-Delhi player, Rajat Bhatia, intervening to cool things down.On Wednesday night, Rahul looked despondent and admonished himself after holing out for a sublime 94 and leaving Kings XI needing 20 off nine balls. They ultimately lost by three runs and their playoff chances took a beating. Hardik also took a beating, conceding 42 runs in four overs without taking a wicket. But all that ceased to matter when the game ended and the jerseys changed hands.
