Former New Zealand cricketer Simon Doull has made an interesting remark about Kolkata Knight Riders’ (KKR) star spin bowler Sunil Narine after his excellent bowling performance in their opening match of the IPL 2024 vs Sunrisers Hyderabad on Saturday.
Kolkata Knight Riders recorded a thrilling victory in the match number 3 of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024. Harshit Rana’s bowling in the last five balls helped KKR seal a 4 runs win against Sunrisers Hyderabad.
In a high scoring match, first we saw Andre Russell bring Russell mania to the Eden Gardens as his quickfire 64 runs of 25 balls helped Kolkata Knight Riders post 208 runs on the board despite losing 4 wickets for 51 runs.
In the 2nd inning, Heinrich Klaasen almost won the match for Sunrisers Hyderabad if not for a brilliant catch a young Suyash Sharma while running back in the last over. Klaasen scored 63 runs of 29 balls before he got out in the 19.5 over when SRH required 5 runs to win.
This was a high scoring match as even a 24 crore worth Mitchell Starc gave away 53 runs in his 4 overs. However, it was Sunil Narine bowling spell that was a talking point. Narine bowled 4 overs and gave away only 19 runs. When compared to other KKR spinners, Varun Chakravarthy gave away 55 runs while Suyash Sharma gave away 18 runs in 2 overs.
Meanwhile, reviewing the match on Cricbuzz, former New Zealand cricket Simon Doull stated that Sunil Narine has in “some ways, shape or form” is back to his illegal bowling action.
“Narine was under the pump a little bit, he has remodelled his action a touch. He knows now, not playing international cricket, I think he knows he’s not going to be called anymore. He knows that’s not a problem for him, so he’s probably gone back a little bit to the old action in some way, shape or form,” said Doull.
