In the same delivery during Kolkata Knight Riders’ high-octane Indian Premier League 2020 clash against Chennai Super Kings, MS Dhoni and Dwayne Bravo reached new milestones in their IPL careers. With a stunning catch, Dhoni surpassed Dinesh Karthik to top the wicketkeepers’ charts with most catches in the history of the tournament. The wicket went to Bravo, the birthday boy, as he completed 150 wickets in IPL.
MS Dhoni will hold the record for the most number of catches by a wicketkeeper for the time being as has 104, 1 more than Dinesh Karthik, the KKR captain who is on the field as KKR are defending 168 on Wednesday.
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MS Dhoni is already on top of the charts for wicketkeepers with the most dismissals in the history of IPL. The CSK skipper has 143 dismissals, 10 more than Dinesh Karthik. While Dhoni has 39 stumpings, Karthik has 33.
A fine effort from MS Dhoni with one glove off
It was a stunning effort from the 39-year-old in the last over of the KKR innings. Dhoni had taken his gloves off from his right hand as he was preparing to restrict a single with Shivam Mavi at the strike for the last 2 deliveries of the 20th over.
Dwayne Bravo bowled it wide and full after getting a hint from MS Dhoni and the ball took a thick edge. Dhoni dived to his right but the ball hit his palm and flew up in the air after which the CSK captain did well to hold on to it, , sending his fans into a tizzy.
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That was also the 150th wicket for Dwayne Bravo who becomes only the 5th bowler in the history of IPL to reach the landmark. Lasith Malinga leads the charts with 170 wickets from 122 matches while Amit Mishra, who was benched by CSK for Wednesday’s match, is at the second spot with 160 wickets from 150 matches.
CSK spinner Piyush Chawla, who was benched for Wednesday’s match against his former franchise, is at the third spot with 156 wickets while Harbhajan Singh, who pulled out of IPL 2020, is at the 4th spot.
Harbhajan and Bravo have picked up 150 wickets each but the CSK all-rounder has got to the tally in just 137 matches while the veteran off-spinner has taken 160 matches.
Most wickets in IPL career
- Lasith Malinga 170 wickets in 122 matches
- Ami Mishra 160 wickets in 150 matches
- Piyush Chawla 156 wickets in 162 matches
- Harbhajan Singh 150 wickets in 160 matches
- Dwayne Bravo 150 wickets in 137 matches
CSK, marshalled wonderfully well by MS Dhoni, came up with a fantastic effort as they pulled things back to bowl out KKR for 167 in 20 overs. At the end of the 10-over mark, the Knight Riders were 92 for 2. They managed just 75 runs in the last 10 overs while just 40 in the last 5 losing 6 wickets.
KKR opened with Rahul Tripathi instead of Sunil Narine and the journeyman put on a show of wonderful strokeplay, hitting 81 from just 51 balls. However, there was no support from any other batsmen as KKR came up with a below-par total.
Dwayne Bravo was the star with the ball as he picked up 3 wickets for 37 runs. However, Shardul Thakur and Karn Sharma came up with brilliant efforts as well, picking up 4 wickets between them, giving away just 53 runs in total. Sam Curran also picked up 2 wickets, which included the important one of Eoin Morgan.