Fast bowler Kartik Tyagi on Tuesday bowled a sensational last over as Rajasthan Royals pulled off an incredible two-run win over Punjab Kings in an Indian Premier League (IPL) thriller match.

With Aiden Markram and Nicholas Pooram in the middle for Punjab Kings, and four runs needed to win, Rajasthan Royals captain Sanju Samson gave the ball to youngster Kartik Tyagi. With eight wickets in hand, scoring four runs in six balls seemed like an easy job for PBKS.

But somehow, Tyagi managed to bowl three dot balls and got two wickets in the final over to help script a thrilling two-run win for his side.

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The cricket fraternity was amazed by Tyagi’s efforts after the match with former England cricketer Graeme Swann and former India wicketkeeper-batsman Parthiv Patel praising the young fast bowler.

“That is quite possibly the greatest last over that I have seen. Tyagi bowled an absolute stonking over. Two wickets, one run, defending only four. I’ll take my hat off to him. The third ball of the over was a brilliant one for me. Very full and then the caught behind happened. When the right-hander came in, he saw it and stepped across. That could have been a wide but not for me because the batsman stepped wide and followed him,” Swann said on Star Sports after the match.

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“Everytime now when there would be 4-5 runs needed in an over, we are going to say ‘Can we pull off a Kartik Tyagi’? When you need only 4 off the last over, first couple of balls you will wait ‘let’s see what happened’. But as we have been talking about the execution, the way he nailed those yorkers. You have to give him credit. We are short of words. I cannot believe what I saw today,” Parthiv said.

Aiden Markram (26 not out) and Nicholas Pooran (32) were going strong and it looked like it would be only a matter of time when Punjab would wrap up the match.

Unfortunately for Punjab, it made a mess in the last over to suffer their sixth defeat from nine matches. With this win, the Royals moved to the fifth spot after four wins from eight matches.

Earlier, the 22-year-old Arshdeep Singh (5/32) complemented his senior pro Mohammed Shami (3/21) well as the duo shared eight wickets to help Punjab bowl out Rajasthan for 185 in exactly 20 overs after they were going strong at 169 for 5 in 17 overs. Opener Yashasvi Jaiswal (49) and Mahipal Lomror (43) scored bulk of the runs for Rajasthan.