Bhuvneshwar Kumar has created a stir by taking a hat-trick in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy (SMAT). He accomplished this feat by entering Rohit Sharma's 'house' and led his team to victory. Actually, the group stage matches of this domestic T20 tournament of India are going on. On Thursday 5 December, a match was played between UP and Jharkhand at Wankhede, the home ground of Team India captain Rohit Sharma. In this match, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, who was captaining for UP, bowled lethally and took 3 wickets for just 6 runs in 4 overs and led his team to victory. His hat-trick proved to be a game changer for UP.

This is how Bhuvneshwar turned the match

Jharkhand won the toss at Wankhede and put UP to bat. After this, Bhuvneshwar Kumar's team scored 160 runs in 20 overs. While chasing it, Jharkhand had scored 116 runs at the loss of 5 wickets in 16 overs. Now he needed 45 runs in 24 balls to win. Then in the 17th inning, Bhuvneshwar took command of the bowling and took 3 consecutive wickets in the first three balls. He dismissed Robin Minz, who was playing after scoring 11 runs, on the very first ball.

After this, Bhuvneshwar also showed the way to the pavilion to Bal Krishna and Vivekananda Tiwari. This match, which was stuck due to his lethal bowling, was completely in the hands of UP. Earlier, he had bowled 3 overs during the opening spell in the powerplay, in which he had given only 6 runs. Jharkhand's batsmen were not given even the slightest chance to open their hands. In this way, he led the team with his performance in the entire match and led the team to victory by 10 runs.

Bhuvneshwar returned to form as soon as he joined RCB

In the mega auction, Royal Challengers Bangalore included him in their team by paying a price of Rs 10.75 crore. Let us tell you that this is the biggest salary of Bhuvneshwar in the history of IPL. Earlier, he used to get Rs 4.2 crore in Hyderabad. As soon as he joined RCB, Bhuvneshwar started looking in his old colors. So far, he has taken 9 wickets in 7 matches in Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy. But the special thing is that during this period his economy has been only 5.33.

CAPTAIN BHUVNESHWAR KUMAR IN SYED MUSHTAQ ALI:

4-0-29-1 vs Delhi
3-0-20-1 vs Himachal Pradesh
1-0-2-0 vs Manipur
4-0-28-3 vs Haryana
2-1-1-1 vs Arunachal Pradesh
3.1-0-26-0 vs Jammu & Kashmir
4-1-6-3 vs Jharkhand

Bhuvi is aging like a fine wine in T20 format. pic.twitter.com/BL3I9SHY4U

—Johns. (@CricCrazyJohns) December 5, 2024

Bhuvneshwar Kumar had been the backbone of Sunrisers Hyderabad's bowling in the IPL for the last 11 seasons. During this period, he also helped the team win the IPL trophy once. However, his performance had declined for some time. Therefore, he is also out of Team India's T20 team from 2022 onwards. At the same time, Hyderabad also did not retain him for IPL 2025 nor did it bid for him.