Harshal Patel on Monday put his name in history books with a remarkable personal milestone during his struggle against Lucknow super veterans. Right-Arm Paper became the fastest bowler in the history of the Indian Premier League, who crossed the mythological names in the process and reached 150 wickets in terms of balls of balls. Patel achieved the achievement by rejecting Aiden Markram in the 16th over of the innings with one of his trademarks slow yorker – delivery of a needle that completely cheated South African and crashed into stumps.
This was the first wicket of Patel’s night, but one placed him in the Elite Company. The wicket came out of the 2381st ball of his IPL career, breaking the previous record organized by Sri Lankan Great Lasith Malinga, who took 2444 balls to reach the same landmark.
In the context of the balls, the fastest 150 IPL wickets now read: Harshal Patel (2381), Lasith Malinga (2444), Yuzvendra Chahal (2543), Dwayne Bravo (2656), and Jasprit Bumrah (2832). Harshal also became the second fastest bowler to reach 150 wickets in matches of matches, received in 117 matches-Kaval Malinga who reached there in 105.
Despite the record-breaking moment, it was not the best night for Harshal or Sunrisers Hyderabad.
Pacer ended with 1 figures for 49 in its four overs as Lucknow Super veterans posted a total of 205 for 7. The SRH bowlers fought throughout the board, unable to include LSG’s explosive foreign trio which is their main season.
Michelle Marsh, Eden Markram, and Nicholas Gorn removed everyone once again, continuing their excellent looks.
Marsh and Markram registered a confident half-century, both crossing the 60-run mark, while Gorn added a blistering 45. With this, Trio made a unique record of his own-each score in IPL history became the first foreign trio to score 400 or the same team to score more runs in the same season.
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