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Bhuvneshwar Kumar added his sanction to the grounds books during Royal Challengers Bengaluru’s lucifer against Chennai Super Kings, becoming lone the 2nd bowler and the archetypal accelerated bowler to scope 200 wickets successful the past of the Indian Premier League. He got to the people by dismissing Ayush Mhatre during the IPL 2026 crippled connected Sunday.Bhuvneshwar, who is the second-highest wicket-taker successful the league, has present joined
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successful the 200-wicket club. He present has 202 wickets successful 192 matches astatine an mean of 27.25. Chahal remains up with 224 wickets successful 176 matches astatine an mean of 22.68. Sunil Narine is 3rd connected the database with 193 wickets successful 191 matches.The milestone wicket came erstwhile Bhuvneshwar dismissed Mhatre during the RCB vs CSK match. He bowled a hard-length transportation extracurricular disconnected stump which roseate and cramped the batter connected the propulsion shot.
Mhatre mistimed the shot and it went up towards mid-off, wherever Rajat Patidar completed the catch.In the aforesaid match, RCB enactment up a full of 250 for 3 astatine the M Chinnaswamy Stadium. The innings began with contributions from Virat Kohli, who scored 28 disconnected 18 balls, and Phil Salt, who made 46 disconnected 30 balls.The scoring was past taken guardant by Devdutt Padikkal (50 disconnected 29 balls), skipper Patidar (48 not retired disconnected 19 balls), and Tim David, who made 70 not retired disconnected 25 balls.
RCB picked up gait done the mediate and last overs. Padikkal and Patidar added runs earlier Patidar and David enactment unneurotic an unbroken 99-run concern successful 35 balls. David’s hitting astatine the end, including 8 sixes, helped RCB scope 250 successful 20 overs. The squad deed a full of 19 sixes successful the innings.Royal Challengers Bengaluru won the lucifer by 43 runs.
