Sunil Narine scales huge T20 milestone, joins Dwayne Bravo and Rashid Khan in elite category

Sunil Narine, certainly one of Kolkata Knight Riders’ most trusted gamers, recorded a huge milestone in T20 cricket historical past on Saturday (May 11).

The thriller spinner bagged the essential wicket of Mumbai Indians’ wicketkeeper-batter Ishan Kishan in the sixtieth recreation of IPL (Indian Premier League) 2024 to hitch the elite record of gamers with 550 or extra scalps in T20 cricket.

Narine is simply the third participant in T20 historical past to scale the milestone after Dwayne Bravo of the West Indies and Afghanistan’s Rashid Khan.

Bravo has claimed essentially the most wickets (625) in the format whereas Rashid is second on the record with 574 scalps. Leading into the sixtieth fixture of the seventeenth season of the Indian Premier League, Narine required only a solitary wicket to enter the 550 membership and he simply wanted to attend for an over to assert the wicket.

He was attacked by Ishan Kishan in his first over and obtained hit for a 4 and a most on the penultimate and the ultimate supply of the over. However, the veteran bowler stored his calm as he normally does and obtained the higher of Ishan in his second over.

Narine bowled a seam-up supply targetting the stumps and Ishan managed to hit it straight all the way down to deep-midwicket’s throat. Ishan’s wicket got here as a sigh of reduction for KKR as he was seeking to take the sport away from them.

He obtained out after scoring 40 off 22 balls with the assistance of 5 fours and two sixes at a strike price of 181.81.

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