Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) shocked Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) on Thursday (April 6) successful the sport by 81 runs in the continuing season of Indian Premier League (IPL). On the again of Shardul Thakur’s distinctive 68-run knock, KKR managed to put up 204 runs on the board after being 89/5 at one stage. RCB then began effectively to be at 44/0 at one stage however misplaced all their wickets for simply 79 runs. KKR spinners Sunil Narine, Varun Chakaravarthy and debutant Suyash Sharma strangled the opposition to share 9 wickets for simply 61 runs in 11.4 overs.
Chakaravarthy was the principle begin with the ball selecting up 4/15 that included the wickets of Faf du Plessis and Glenn Maxwell whereas Narine nipped out Virat Kohli and Shahbaz Ahmed. Suyash Sharma, thriller spinner, acquired the perfect of circumstances to bowl and the teen shone vibrant to return with the figures of three/30 in his 4 overs. This approach, the three KKR spinners shared 9 wickets between them to create a record of most wickets picked by spinners in a single innings in the history of IPL.
CSK owned this record beforehand with their spinners accounting for 8 scalps in a single innings as many as 3 times. The first such occasion happened in 2012 in Visakhapatnam when CSK spinners strangled Delhi Capitals batters and then the four-time champions equalled their record twice in 2019 towards RCB and DC respectively.
Notably, the KKR vs RCB encounter was additionally a record for spinners bagging most wickets in a single IPL match. Apart from KKR spinners who took 9 wickets collectively, RCB spinners additionally picked up three wickets to take the tally to 12 which is probably the most in an IPL recreation. The earlier record in this facet was 11 wickets and it had occurred thrice with KKR concerned in two such cases.Â
