New Delhi, May 18: Lungi Ngidi, the South African fast bowling sensation, representing the Chennai Superkings in the 11th edition of the VIVO IPL 2018, set up the Twitter world on fire after he dismissed the batting superstar of this season, Delhi Daredevils' Rishabh Pant. Rishabh Pant, who has scored the highest individual score of 128 this season, he hit the ton against Sunrisers Hyderabad, has been the batting superstar this season. But Lungi Ngidi, the 22-year-old South African pacer who is one of the fastest young bowlers around, produced an amazing spell of fast bowling in the match against Delhi Daredevils.

But the ultimate moment came when he dismissed Rishabh Pant. Twitter went crazy over the "How Lungi is better than Pant" in summer jokes:

The Lungi on fire jokes were not far away, as one could sense:

There were videos of "Lungi Dance" dedicated to the fast bowler as well:

Lungi removes Pant, lungi is better than Pant in summer and such jokes did the rounds on the micro-blogging site:

Frankly, Lungi Ngidi dismissing Rishabh Pant was too much for some Twitter fans. The Delhi Daredevils put up an ordinary batting performance and managed to score 162 runs. Delhi Daredevils are already out of the VIVO IPL 2018. But they beat Chennai by 34 runs who are ranked second on the points table on the back of strong bowling and fielding performance.

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