IPL 2022: Wicket drought for Bumrah continued for 7 matches, then made a big record of throwing the best spell of career
Cricket
oi-Vineet Kumar
New Delhi. The 56th match of the Indian Premier League is being played at the DY Patil Stadium, where the Mumbai Indians team, who have been out of the playoff race, is facing Kolkata Knight Riders. In the do or die match, Kolkata Knight Riders made 5 changes and made a good start in the first 10 overs and scored 87 runs for the loss of one wicket. However, in the next 10 overs, Jasprit Bumrah’s storm broke the back of Kolkata Knight Riders and they scored only 78 runs for the loss of 8 wickets.
Due to this, the team of Kolkata Knight Riders could score only 165 runs for the loss of 9 wickets in the stipulated 20 overs. Kumar Karthikeya (2 wickets) and Murugan Ashwin (1 wicket) got the first 3 successes for Mumbai Indians but after that Bumrah took 5 wickets, throwing the best spell of his IPL career.
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Drought of wickets broke against KKR
Talking about Jasprit Bumrah, he had proved to be economical for his team in the last 7 matches but not a single wicket came in his account. However, against Kolkata Knight Riders, Bumrah had come down with a different intention and first took two wickets in the same over and threw the maiden after taking three wickets in the next over. Bumrah gave only 10 runs in his spell of 4 overs and took 5 wickets in his name. It was also the first 5-wicket haul of his career and the best spell of his IPL career.
Bumrah becomes 5th best bowler in IPL history
Along with this, Jasprit Bumrah has also included his name in the list of top 5 bowlers who have bowled the best in the history of IPL. It is noteworthy that the record of bowling the best bowling in IPL history is in the name of Alzarri Joseph, who took 6/12 for Mumbai in 2019 against Hyderabad. At the same time, in the first season, Sohail Tanveer of Pakistan, who played for Rajasthan, took 6 wickets for 14 runs against CSK. There is also the name of Adam Zampa in this list, who took 6/19 against Hyderabad for Rising Pune Supergiants in 2016, while Anil Kumble’s name is at the fourth place, who played against Rajasthan in 2009 for RCB. He took 5 wickets for 5 runs in his name.
18 out of 24 balls thrown empty
Now Jasprit Bumrah has occupied the fifth position in the list with this performance against Kolkata Knight Riders. Bumrah had started his wickets with Andre Russell, while in the same over he made Nitish Rana his second victim. After this, Bumrah got Sheldon Jackson caught by Daniel Sams, while Pat Cummins was caught by Tilak Verma and on the very next ball, Narine was caught on his own ball and sent back to the pavilion. Bumrah took out 18 balls in his 4-over spell, which included 5 wickets, while there he ate only one boundary.
Story first published: Monday, May 9, 2022, 22:06 [IST]
