Delhi: West Indies cricketer Sunil Narine, not only a mysterious spinner in white ball cricket, is also the first high-profile cricketer who played T20 cricket as a professional. His international cricket career was at stake, played league T20 cricket and hence has a well-known name playing in many leagues like IPL. In the IPL, a long career like 177 matches and amazing is that till now the same team has played for Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR). In this IPL career, which started in 2012, he has many records, but the most important thing is that despite being an expert bowler, he also recognized as a batsman.
His IPL records do not mention 180 wickets from an economy of 6.73 in just 177 matches, in the total 110 innings in which 1534 runs (8 score 50+) are also special at 165+ strike rates. This is the batting in which his name is a unique record that is not in the IPL and none of the names. The record was actually started during the 2010 years when the Melbourne Renegade in Australia’s Big Bash League gave a sense to his stroke play and made Narin who was wearing the bottom number. This experiment was a hit and after that his batting also came into the discussion.
Believe that now Sunil Naren is the only batsman in the IPL who has batted from number 1 to 11 i.e. every batting position. So in this way he has played every role for the KKR team from opener to middle order and telinder. In the role of his opener, explosive batting style, especially in Powerplay, KKR’s great work has come and this reduced the pressure on his middle order. Even in the 2024 season, he became only the third player to record 400 runs and 15 wickets. Let us see what number has been batted in 110 innings till the start of 2025 seasons in the IPL:
Opening- 54 innings
No. 3- 1 innings
Number 4- 8 innings
Number 5- 7 innings
Number 6- 1 innings
Number 7- 6 innings
Number 8- 13 innings
number nine- 9 innings
Number 10- 8 innings
Number 11- 3 innings
Another funny thing is that he has also been both a striker and non -striker in the role of the opener. The 105 -run partnership record with Chris Lynn in Powerplay still remains.
If you look closely at his batting record, then it is known how hard he worked on improving his batting? As of 2016, he had scored just 413 runs in 198 T20 matches (short more than 2 runs per match) in 69 innings. So in 2017, Melbourne Renegades did not understand what he made an opener after seeing him. Seeing this, when KKR also made an opener, even though only 3 fours and 2 sixes hit in the first 3 matches, the style with which the shot was caught by the team coaching staff and the change that happened after that is now history. 222 runs in 12 innings as an opener in the 2017 IPL season and 343 runs in 2018, 343 runs at a strike rate of 197. In these two seasons and the strike rate of an opener was not 161. After this, it is not known why the team management did not make him a regular opener. Then came 2024 and Gautam Gambhir was a mentor. They brought him back to the role of the opener and made an amazing opening pair with Phil Salat, which KKR had chosen as a bowler in the team, now his batting, there is special discussion in the team strategy:
- His strike rate (177) is the highest among all the openers who have scored 1000 runs in IPL
- Among all the batsmen who scored 500 runs in Powerplay, their strike rate 171 highest
In this 2024 season, he also put his first 100, which was not only the first 100 in the IPL, the first 100 in any T20 match. The truth is that this was his first 100 in First Class and List A Cricket. That is why the people of KKR are called MVP.
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