Twitter reacts to Narine and Raina's swashbuckling innings, as the rains make Gambhir angry

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04/21/2017

While the evening began with Twitterati trending Narine's heroics, in between the rains and poor umpiring, it was Raina who stole everyone's hearts and got the CSK fans out of their basements. With a classy 84-run knock, Captain Raina won both the game and the social media.

Brief Scores: Kolkata Knight Riders 187/5 (Robin Uthappa 72, Sunil Narine 42; Suresh Raina 1/11, Praveen Kumar 1/24) lost to Gujarat Lions 188/6 (Suresh Raina 84, Brendon McCullum 33; Nathan Coulter-Nile 2/20, Kuldeep Yadav 2/33) by 4 wickets.

Here are the best tweets from the match:

The team which had no bowlers did this 🙏

GL in :

Andrew Tye: 12-0-85-7 (ER 7.08)

Others combined: 77.5-0-791-8 (ER 10.21)

And GL drops Tye for today's' game.
— Deepu Narayana (@deeputalks)

The Narine blitzkrieg drew multiple devotees across the country and more!

Narayan Narayan !!!! Bas karo Prabhu
— Ayush Gupta (@sensiblystupid_)

Narine scored all of his today's runs via boundaries.
— #LiveCricket (@CricketUrdu)

Fans joined in fat-shaming the Uthappa ..

Uthappa is looking more like a really puffed idli
— Rookie (@rookie_tweet)

Only to later chew their words!

Playing in his 50th match for , scores a delightful 5⃣0⃣ and looks in no mood to stop. 😎
— KolkataKnightRiders (@KKRiders)

In true IPL tradition, the umpires kept up their good work

Do umpire have routine eye check up before every match/week/series ?
— Tabrez Shaikh (@its_tabrez_4u)

Meanwhile, some stayed true to his name.

"Baarish ho rahi hai Gambhir naraz lag rahe hai"

"Baarish band hogayi phir bhi Gambhir naraz hi lag rahe hai"
— Akshay Jain (@ComedyBanda)

And people started wondering if Narine was a part time bastman or a part time bowler.

Narine Make It equal 42 run as opner and 42 runs in bowling in 4 over.Bhai Mujhe koi kch Nahi bolega meine jitne banaye utne he Diye
— strong@Rameshwar (@rgurjar70)

The day however belonged to Captain Raina!

84(46)

Vintage is back in town

Captain innings does it fr
— Suresh Raina (@Raina_Barani)

And the owner of KKR said it best - Let the Rain(a) flow ☔️

रैना को को बहने दो
— Rakeysh (@TheRakeysh)

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