‌ILT20 | Twitter erupts after Akeal Hosein recreates KL Rahul’s shut-the-noise celebration after outwitting Charles 

After a dominant powerplay, the MI Emirates lower order propelled the scoreboard to 180 runs, to whose return the bowlers backed it up by ruthless new ball bowling. Akeal Hosein drew the first blood for the Emirates after cleaning up his national teammate, Johnson Charles inside the powerplay and following up with a worth-the-watch celebration. 

Having scored just three runs off the first five balls in the second innings, Johnson Charles saw his stumps get shattered, trying to drive a length delivery in the final delivery of the first over.  Hosein sprayed a flighted delivery that turned into the right-hander and went on to beat the inside edge of the bat and clatter onto the poles. Charles played for the stock ball of a left-arm orthodox spinner and read the line wrong to see the arm ball skid onto his stumps rapidly.

What followed after the wicket was amazing to watch as Hosein sprinted along the ground pointing the fingers towards the spectators and covered his ears with both of his hands. Although it's not the first time Hosein did a similar act, the Twitterverse drew similarity with KL Rahul’s shut-the-noise celebration that was spotted in national colors and during the IPL 2022.

That celebration

— Glennmax (@maxglenn425) 

Perfect

Akeal Hosein with a 𝓹𝓮𝓻𝓯𝓮𝓬𝓽 arm ball ☝️🤩

Charles 🔙 to the dugout!   

— International League T20 (@ILT20Official) 

Adds little value

Woakes in the Subcontinent is like Ashwin in SENA. Adds little value with the ball and doesn't add much value with the bat. Plus ILT20 offers tempting money for so little work. Won't blame Woakes at all tbh 🙃

— Vivek._.M (@Viv666viV) 

Pooran show

Pooran goes out of the ground

The 𝙋𝙤𝙤𝙧𝙖𝙣 show 🥵   

— Tharun (@surakshaengg) 

In his book

ILT20 > IPL in my book

— Ｍａｌｉｋ (@MALIKhunyar__) 

Excellent performance

Excellent performance with the ball from promising seamer Jawadullah. He will be wanted in many global leagues in future 

— Prasanna (@prasannalara) 

Thank you mate

Trent Boult thank you mate 🙏 

— Cricket Tamizhan (@CricketTamizhan) 

Looks confident

Always felt that Warner was under pressure and had too much expectations to perform from his teammates and the fans. Even though he had a good series against Pakistan, he didn't look confident enough and you can see it in his batting in ILT20.

— Shivam Mittal (@ShivamM22661008) 

Needs to make a move

Pooran and David needs to make a move on here 

— Cricket Tamizhan (@CricketTamizhan)