England and Punjab Kings (PBKS) all-rounder Sam Curran joined the corporate of Indian quicks Mohit Sharma, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Mohammed Shami, Australia’s Pat Cummins, South Africa’s Kagiso Rabada to have conceded 50 runs or extra on six or extra events throughout his spell towards the Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) on the Eden Gardens in Kolkata on Friday. Curran joined this undesirable checklist throughout his facet’s IPL sport towards Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) on the Eden Gardens.
During the sport, Curran was taken to cleaners by the KKR openers Sunil Narine and Phil Salt and the staff’s feared middle-order as he gave away 60 runs and took only one wicket of Salt. His financial system fee was 15.
This was the sixth occasion when Curran conceded 50 runs or extra in his IPL spell. Mohit has registered this undesirable feat to his identify seven occasions, probably the most by a bowler within the match’s historical past. Bhuvneshwar, Shami, Cummins and Rabada have delivered such costly spells six occasions every.
Curran additionally recorded the fifth most-expensive figures by a PBKS bowler in IPL historical past. Afghanistan’s Mujeeb ur Rahman’s figures of 0/66 towards Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) again in 2019 nonetheless stay the most costly for the franchise.
Though Curran has taken 12 wickets in 9 video games at a median of 22.58 and a strike fee of 14, his financial system fee of 9.67 is barely on the upper facet. His finest bowling figures are 3/28 up to now. He has additionally contributed 152 runs in eight innings with the bat at a median of 19.00 and a strike fee of simply above 116, with a knock of 63 as his soltary fifty.
Coming to the match, Punjab despatched Kolkata to bat first after profitable the toss. Following this, Sunil Narine (71 in 32 balls, with 9 fours and 4 sixes) and Philip Salt (75 in 37 balls, with six sixes) delighted the Eden Gardens crowd with an exhilarating batting show and obliterated Punjab Kings (PBKS) bowlers to energy KKR to 261/6 in 20 overs.
Arshdeep Singh led the PBKS bowling unit after he picked up two wickets.
During the run chase, Jonny Bairstow (108), Prabhsimran Singh (54 in 20 balls, with 4 boundaries and 5 sixes) and Shashank Singh (68* in 28 balls, with two fours and eight sixes) performed an unbeaten knock to chase down the large goal with eight balls to spare and script historical past.
Narine was the one wicket-taker for the KKR.
Bairstow took dwelling the ‘Player of the Match’ award.
Out of eight matches, KKR has registered 5 victories, accumulating 10 factors within the IPL 2024 standings, staying on the quantity 2 place. Meanwhile, Punjab holds the eighth place with six factors after profitable three of 9 video games.
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