IPL 2024: Sunil Narine creates history in IPL, left behind legends including Zaheer, Bumrah, Bhuvneshwar
For Kolkata, Mitchell Starc took four wickets and Sunil Narine took two wickets. Sunil Narine showed the way to the pavilion to Rohit Sharma and Nehal Wadhera in the match and with this he made a big record in his name.
Kolkata Knight Riders registered their seventh win of the season by defeating Mumbai Indians by 24 runs at the Wankhede Stadium. Batting first, Kolkata scored 169 runs on the basis of Venkatesh Iyer's innings of 70 runs and gave Mumbai a target of 170 runs to win. In response, Mumbai Indians team could score only 145 runs and lost the match by 24 runs. Suryakumar Yadav played an innings of 56 runs in this match for Mumbai and he was the highest run scorer for the team. For Kolkata, Mitchell Starc took four wickets and Sunil Narine took two wickets. Sunil Narine showed the way to the pavilion to Rohit Sharma and Nehal Wadhera in the match and with this he made a big record in his name.
Actually, Sunil Narine has become the bowler who has made Rohit Sharma his victim most often in IPL. In the history of IPL, Narine has shown the way to the pavilion to Rohit eight times. Sunil Narel has come first in the IPL in terms of dismissing a batsman the most number of times by a bowler. In this list, there is Sandeep Sharma, who has made Virat Kohli his victim seven times in IPL, while Zaheer Khan is in third place and he has taken Dhoni's wicket seven times. While Bumrah has shown the way to Pant seven times, Bhuvneshwar Kumar has shown the way to the pavilion seven times to Rahane.
Apart from this, Sunil Narel has come second in the list of bowlers who have dismissed the batsman the most number of times in T20 cricket. He has dismissed Rohit Sharma nine times in T20. If we talk about Rohit Sharma's record against Narine, then Rohit has faced 131 balls. During this period, he has scored 141 runs at an average of 17.62 and strike rate of 107.63.
Kolkata, who came to bat first, scored 169 runs on the basis of Venkatesh Iyer's 70 runs on 52 balls and Manish Pandey's 42 runs on 31 balls. Jasprit Bumrah took 3 wickets for 18 runs for Mumbai. In response, Mumbai Indians collapsed for 145 runs. Starc took four wickets for 33 runs in 3.5 overs and helped KKR win by 24 runs. With this victory, Kolkata has gained 14 points and has come second in the points table.