Piyush Chawla broke Dwayne Bravo's record In the 51st match of IPL 2024, Mumbai Indians are facing Kolkata Knight Riders today. Mumbai Indians captain Hardik Pandya won the toss and decided to bowl first. Batting first, KKR were bowled out for 169 runs in19.5 overs. Mumbai Indians spinner Piyush Chawla took a wicket in this match, breaking Dwayne Bravo's record and becoming the alternate loftiest wicket taker in IPL.
Piyush Chawla breaks Dwayne Bravo's record – Rinku Singh is caught by Piyush Chawla on the first ball of the seventh over of Kolkata Knight Riders' innings. Rinku scored 9 runs in 8 balls. During this he hit 2 fours. With Rinku's wicket, Piyush Chawla completed 184 wickets in IPL. Dwayne has taken 183 wickets in IPL. With this, Piyush Chawla has come the alternate loftiest wicket taker in IPL.
Leading the list is Yuzvendra Chahal, who has taken 200 wickets in IPL. utmost wicket taking bowlers in IPL – 200 wickets Yuzvendra Chahal 184 wickets Piyush Chawla 183 wickets Dwayne Bravo 178 wickets Bhuvneshwar Kumar. Talking about the match, Kolkata Knight Riders who came in to bat first after losing the toss were seen floundering against Mumbai Indians. The team lost five wickets for 57 runs.
Batsmen like Salt-Narine completely flopped in front of Mumbai's bowling. In this match, Salt scored five runs, Raghuvanshi 13 runs, Shreyas Iyer six runs, Sunil Narine eight runs and Rinku Singh nine runs. After this, Mayank Pandey and Venkatesh Iyer took care of the march. The duo participated a 62-ball 83-run partnership for the sixth wicket. Hardik dismissed Pandey who came as an influential player. He returned with 42 runs.
Kolkata suffered two shocks in the 17th over. Andre Russell could only score seven runs in this over. In this match, the Mumbai bowlers made a splash. Jasprit Bumrah took three wickets. He completed 50 wickets at the Wankhede Stadium. He dismissed Ramandeep Singh, Mitchell Star and Venkatesh Iyer. Iyer played a brilliant knock of 70 runs against Mumbai. In between, six fours and three sixes came from his bat. For Mumbai, Nuwan Tushara took three wickets, skipper Pandya took two wickets and Piyush Chawla took one wicket. The Kolkata team was bowled out for 169 runs in19.5 overs.
