Andre Russell has created a special record throughout Kolkata Knight Riders’ conflict towards Royal Challengers Bengaluru on the M Chinnaswamy Stadium. Russell’s prowess with the bat and wiliness with the ball have been a factor to cherish. Russell has joined a fairly elusive list of all-rounders with a special outing towards RCB.
Russell might not get to bat because the KKR top-order scored the key chunk of the runs earlier than a pair of middle-order gamers made contributions to take the workforce house towards RCB. However, he took two wickets and has accomplished 100 wickets in IPL.
Russell has change into solely the fifth participant in IPL historical past to have a double of 1000 runs and 100 wickets in the event. He has scored 2326 runs and after taking two wickets, he now has 100 scalps in the event. Notably, star all-rounder and Mumbai Indians captain Hardik Pandya is much from becoming a member of this list.
Players with the double of 1000 runs and 100 wickets in IPL:
Ravindra Jadeja – 2724, 152
Andre Russell – 2326, 100
Dwayne Bravo – 1560, 183
Axar Patel – 1454, 113
Sunil Narine – 1048, 165
Hardik Pandya has made 2344 runs in 125 IPL matches to this point and has 54 wickets from 83 innings that he has bowled in.Â
Notably, KKR registered an emphatic win over RCB in match 10 of the Indian cash-rich event. They gunned down the goal of 183 on a floor that seemingly acquired higher beneath the lights and in some dew. Phil Salt and Sunil Narine supplied an excellent begin with the bat as KKR smashed 85 from the powerplay. Venkatesh Iyer’s fifty and Shreyas Iyer’s 39, helped KKR go over the road and register their second win of the season in as many outings.
