Defending IPL champions Chennai Super Kings (CSK) tasted their first defeat of the 2024 edition at Delhi Capitals on Sunday. After winning their first two games, CSK suffered a 20-match losing streak against DC. David Warner (52 off 35 balls, including 5 fours and 3 sixes) and the returning Prithvi Shaw (43 off 27 balls) ball, 4 boundaries and 2 sixes) started well with an opening partnership of 93 runs. After being dismissed, DC lost their way for a while until Rishabh Pant (51 off 32 balls with 4 boundaries and 3 sixes) finally got some quick runs to take the team to 191/ in 20 overs 5. Matheesha Pathirana (3/31) is the bowler for CSK.
In the run chase of 192, Khalil Ahmed (2/21) and Mukesh Kumar (3/21) used their line and length to trouble the CSK batsmen, at one point At one point, CSK were 75/3 in 10.2 overs. Useful knocks came from Ajinkya Rahane (45 off 30 balls with five fours and two sixes), Daryl Mitchell (34 off 26 balls with one four and two sixes) and MS Dhoni (37 off 16 balls with four boundaries and three sixes), but DC registered a 20-run victory to restrict the five-time champions to 171/6.
In this match, Pathirana caught the bowling of Mustafizur Rahman. Video of the capture went viral. After the match, Patialana re-shared several congratulatory messages on Instagram, one of which read: “This is the first time a Sri Lankan has helped a Bangladeshi”. Another user on the same post said: “That’s why he didn’t celebrate the catch.”
Bangladesh pacer Mustafizur Rahman has completed 300 wickets in T20 cricket, becoming the second bowler from the country to achieve this milestone.
The veteran pacer achieved the milestone during his team’s Chennai Super Kings (CSK) Indian Premier League (IPL) match against Delhi Capitals (DC) in Visakhapatnam.
During the game, Mustafizul was very costly in possession of the ball, conceding 47 points in four rounds with an economic efficiency of 11.80. But despite this, he got the wicket of David Warner.
In 243 T20 games, the Bangladesh pacer took 300 wickets at an average of 21.71 and a strike rate of 17.4. His best bowling figures are 5/22. He finished with six four-wicket hauls and three five-wicket hauls in the shortest format.
His Bangladesh teammate and star all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan is the fifth-highest wicket-taker in T20s, taking 482 scalps in 428 games at an average of 21.19.
The highest-scoring wicket-taker in the shortest form of the sport is West Indies great Dwayne Bravo, who has scored 625 runs in 573 T20 games at an average of 24.29 , the best bowling data is 5/23. He has 11 fours and two five-wickets in T20 cricket.
Mustafizul is the ‘Purple Cap’ holder of most wickets in IPL 2024 so far, taking seven in three matches at an average of 15.14 with best bowling figures of 4/29.
With ANI input
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