Bhuvneshwar has taken 143 wickets in 133 innings so far in IPL at an average of 25.29 and economy of 7.29.
-Vinay Kumar
The fifth match of IPL 2022 was SRH vs RR, which was played on Tuesday, 29 March at MCA Stadium, Pune. In this match, Rajasthan Royals defeated Sunrisers Hyderabad by a huge margin of 61 runs. In this match, RR captain Sanju Samson completed his half-century in this latest season in 25 balls. He hit more sixes than fours in his innings of 27 balls. In this match, his bat hit 3 fours and 5 sixes. Sanju played an innings of 55 runs. With this innings, he broke Shane Watson’s record in IPL. And in the same match, SRH’s deadly fast bowler Bhuvaneshwar Kumar also made a record in his name.
Bhuvneshwar Kumar became the bowler to score the most dot balls (balls on which batsmen could not score any runs) in the history of IPL. It is worth noting that before him, this record was recorded in the name of Harbhajan Singh. Harbhajan Singh did 1268 dot balls in 160 innings played in his IPL career. Bhuvneshwar Kumar overtook Bhajji in just 133rd innings with an even better average. In the name of Bhuvaneshwar Kumar, now 1280 dot balls have been done in the IPL. Bhuvneshwar has taken 143 wickets in 133 innings so far in IPL at an average of 25.29 and economy of 7.29.
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One special thing was that Sanju Samson also became the batsman to hit the most sixes for RR. In the history of IPL, Samson has hit 110 sixes so far while playing for Rajasthan Royals. Before him, this big record was recorded in the name of Shane Watson. Shane Watson hit a total of 105 sixes while playing for RR. In this case, Jos Butler is in third place. He has hit a total of 67 sixes for Rajasthan Royals. Yusuf Pathan is in fourth place. He had hit 61 sixes for RR in his IPL career. And fifth is Ajinkya Rahane, who hit 53 sixes while playing for RR.
One special thing is that RR captain Sanju Samson is the player to hit the most sixes against spin bowlers in IPL after IPL 2020. He is followed by Shikhar Dhawan in second place. In this fresh season match played on Tuesday, Sanju Samson hit 4 sixes on the ball of spin bowler against SRH. IPL history tells that Samson has hit 26 sixes against spin bowlers since IPL 2020. Whereas, Shikhar Dhawan has hit 20 sixes. Nitish Rana is in third place with 19 sixes. Ishan Kishan and Glenn Maxwell are present at number four with 17-17 sixes.