Wrist spinner Yuzvendra Chahal etched his identify within the file books as he turned the very best wicket-taker within the historical past of IPL, The 32-year-old surpassed Dwayne Bravo’s tally of 183 wickets as he made Nitish Rana the 184.th sufferer of his IPL profession on Thursday, Could 11 at Eden Gardens in Kolkata.
Coming into bowl his first over in the course of the 11th Over the innings, Chahal bowled a tossed-up supply to Rana who slog-swept it straight to Shimron Hetmyer at deep backward square-leg. The West Indian got here working in and dived ahead to take his second breathtaking catch of the match.
Chahal had already leveled Bravo’s record-wicket tally throughout Rajasthan Royals’ final fixture in opposition to Sunrisers Hyderabad and eventually surpassed him in opposition to KKR. The Haryana-born spinner did not cease there and ended up choosing up three extra wickets to interrupt the again of KKR’s batting after they have been put into bat first by RR captain Sanju Samson.
After giving simply three runs in his first over, Chahal was taken to the cleaners by Venkatesh Iyer, who smacked him for 15 runs in his second over. Nevertheless, the wrist spinner made a terrific comeback in his third over sending a well-set Iyer (57 off 42) again on his approach to the pavilion getting him caught by Trent Boult.
On the fourth ball of the over, Chahal trapped Shardul Thakur in entrance of the stumps to assert his third scalp. He returned within the 19th over and bought the prized scalp of the damaging Rinku Singh who holed out at long-off.
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Chahal will get the purple cap with 21 wickets to his identify
The wrist-spinner completed his four-over spell with figures of 4/25 and helped Rajasthan to limit KKR to 149/8 of their allotted 20 overs. Venkatesh Iyer was the highest scorer with the bat for KKR whereas Chahal was the decide of the bowlers for RR with Trent Boult additionally choosing 2/15 in his three overs.
Notably, Chahal gained the coveted Purple Cap for ending as the very best wicket-taker of IPL 2022, and along with his sensational spell, he rose to the highest of this 12 months’s wicket-takers’ listing as properly with 21 scalps to his identify from 12 matches. .
The India cricketer now has 186 wickets in his IPL profession from 142 innings at a mean of 21.36 and an financial system of seven.64.
In the meantime, Twitter was abuzz with reactions to Chahal’s historic achievement and his splendid spell.
Listed here are among the Tweets:
If RCB do not qualify this season, the perpetrator will not be any RCB participant. Poor administration of RCB would be the accountable that they select Harshal Patel over Yuzvendra Chahal. #yuzi#yuzvendra#rcb
09:25 PM Could 11, 2023
India’s largest mistake was to not play Yuzvendra Chahal in t20 world cup. He’s the perfect Indian spinner with regards to T20. #GOAT#KKRvsRR
09:25 PM Could 11, 2023
09:24 PM Could 11, 2023
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How Yuzvendra Chahal seems kkr at this time
09:24 PM Could 11, 2023
This IPL, Yuzvendra Chahal was struggling vs LHBs. Did not take sufficient wickets and was going at a fee of round 10 rpo. However, at this time, he picked up 3 wickets and conceded simply 22 runs from 18 balls in opposition to LHB’s. My guess is, at this time he bowled fairly just a few sliders in opposition to them
09:24 PM Could 11, 2023
09:23 PM Could 11, 2023
Most 4fers in IPL Historical past 8 – Sunil Narine 7 – Yuzvendra Chahal* 7 – Lasith Malinga #KKRvRR#IPL2023
