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Rinku Singh's "God's Plan" Remark After Impactful Over Sri Lanka In 3rd T20I

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With Sri Lanka needing nine runs to win off 12 balls, India summoned Rinku Singh to press his part-time off-spin bowling into action.

Rinku, bowling for the first time in T20Is, gave away only three runs while picking two wickets in a superb 19th over. There was more out-of-the-box thinking in store as captain Suryakumar Yadav brought himself on to bowl the last over, defended five runs by picking up two wickets and sent the game to a Super Over, where India won to seal a 3-0 triumph. "I have a lot of wickets in domestic cricket.

It's not like that, and I even have a wicket in ODIs. I had been informed by Surya to be ready for bowling in the series. Though I didn't bowl in the run-up to this game, Surya bhai had told me to keep practising my bowling and asked me to do it during warm-up." "When the game was on, I did not expect that I would be asked to bowl, as the situation was totally neck-and-neck.

Then he asked me to roll my arm over and once I started to bowl, it was God's plan - two wickets," said Rinku in a video posted by BCCI on their 'X' account.

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