Twitter reacts to Smith and Pant's hilarious run-outs

05/10/2017

Dwayne Smith decided to jog while taking a quick single before Pant was caught day dreaming by Suresh Raina in the second innnings in a match that saw four run outs. The Twitterati picked up on these two hilarious dismissals and trolled the duo for the way in which they threw their wickets away.

Brief Scores: Gujarat Lions 195/5 (Aaron Finch 69, Dinesh Karthik 40; Amit Mishra 1/27, Mohammed Shami 1/36) lost to Delhi Daredevils 153/6 (Shreyas Iyer 96, Karun Nair 30; James Faulkner 2/39, Dhawal Kulkarni 1/30) by 2 wickets.Here are the tweets from the game

How slow was Smith? (Watch incident here)

The slowest throw for a run-out yet Dwayne Smith got out

If you know what I Mean!
— Jessy Rajkumari (@RajkumariJessy)

Indian food has definitely changed Smith! :P

Dwayne Smith's looking like he's just had fish curry rice plate !
— Jatin Paranjape (@jats72)

KFC presents.....

If there's an award for most unfit player in , Dwayne Smith will win that honour.
— Abhishek (@abhishek2526)

Didn't know Raina had such a dedicated fan! :O

Fan on the field - Autograph please!
— IndianPremierLeague (@IPL)

Then this happened! xD (Watch incident here)

Smith : No one can get out in a much sillier way!

Pant : Hold my beer
— srijith (@srijithcfc)

But it had Raina's presence of mind written all over it!

It's not carelessness

It's brilliance !! 👏👏👏
— Achal Sharma 🇮🇳 (@achalsharma17)

It seemed so!

Pant in a hurry to join Samson in the dug out!!!
— Anish Telkikar (@telkikar_anish)

Deja vu!

Rishab pant got run out almost same way he got himself out in Under 19 world cup final against West indies #
— Abhay Sharma (@Im_AbhaySharma)

Now that's harsh!

Ok. So ppl who really wanted to give Rishab Pant a chance at the International Level, Need to see his absurd presence of mind. Stupid runout
— Vignesh (@viggu_8391)

Mishra must be proud!

Rishabh Pant just made Amit Mishra very proud, what a meandering run out, could've been smoking a cigi and reading a book
— Gaurav Sethi (@BoredCricket)

Nervous 90s!