Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) witnessed a historic day within the Indian Premier League (IPL) match towards Mumbai Indians (MI) on Sunday, with Venkatesh Iyer scoring a century. It was the primary time in about 15 years {that a} KKR participant scored a century within the IPL, with Brendon McCullum being the final, doing so within the inaugural version of the T20 league within the very first match. While predicting a KKR participant to attain a century understandably stays a troublesome ask, contemplating the 15-year-long drought, a fan had nearly precisely envisioned what Sunday’s match was to carry.

In a tweet that has gone viral on social media, a fan predicted with nearly excellent accuracy that Venkatesh would rating a century in 51 balls. Though the KKR all-rounder’s ton got here in 49 balls, he finally made 104 runs off 51 balls.

Here’s the tweet:

“Bold prediction for today’s match. Venkatesh Iyer will score his first ever t20 century in just 51 balls,” the fan mentioned.

Bold prediction for at the moment’s match.
Venkatesh Iyer will rating his first ever t20 century in simply 51 balls.

— S H A H I D (@Irfy_Pathaan56) April 16, 2023

Speaking of his efficiency after the match, Iyer mentioned: “Would have been happier if we would’ve finished on the winning side but happy with my performance. They’ve shown faith in me and it was a very beautiful wicket to bat on. Once you’ve scored those 30-40 runs, it’s just about how you continue. Both of their new ball bowlers were swing bowlers and when you allow swing bowlers to settle down, it can be a problem. So I used my feet, went deep in the crease. After the ball stops swinging it’s about how you manoeuvre. I keep getting hit in every game here and there.

The thought about going out came but my coach and players urged me to keep going. I think we fell 15-20 runs short. But given how MI were going, they would’ve chased it down in the next over anyways. But their death bowling was very nice. If we look at their last three-four overs, they didn’t give away too many runs. Credit to them.”

Despite Iyer’s ton, KKR could not safe a win, with Mumbai Indians taking two factors fro the match, courtesy of their 5-wicket win with 2.2 overs to spare.