An out-and-out right-arm quick, Sharma bowls a mean bouncer and impressed former Rajasthan captain Dishant Yagnik, who noted his fluent run-up and the pace he generates in his delivery stride.
A hard-hitting top-order batter who also bowls handy medium pace, Aman played a lot of his age-group cricket alongside Shreyas Iyer, his Kolkata Knight Riders skipper.
His figures so far have read 0/15, 1/12, 1/23, 0/26 and 2/21. In a squad that has had the likes of Umesh Yadav, Andre Russell and Pat Cummins enjoy the limelight, Narine has eschewed it, going about his grubby work operating from under the radar.
An all-round performance from the Delhi Capitals led by Kuldeep Yadav’s 4 for 35 ensured the Kolkata Knight Riders fell 44 runs short in their chase of 216 at the Brabourne Stadium in Mumbai.
Kolkata Knight Riders have wind in their sails heading into their first day game against Delhi Capitals in the IPL 2022.
Nobody quite saw the carnage that ensued, coming. Not even Daniel Sams, who bowled a fateful sixteenth over. Not even Shreyas Iyer and not least, Pat Cummins himself.
Pat Cummins blasted the joint-fastest fifty in IPL history with an unbeaten 15-ball 56 as he helped Kolkata Knight Riders romp home by 5 wickets and 24 balls to spare.
Kolkata Knight Riders are unbeaten at the venue, winning all six games they have played here. But it’s more to do with who they face off on Wednesday. Their opponents, Mumbai Indians, have held the upper hand by a significant margin: winning 22 out of their past 29 encounters.
Head coach Brendon McCullum confirmed Pat Cummins, who arrived last week, is available for selection for their next game against the Mumbai Indians and adds to a “few selection headaches”. McCullum believes the Australian Test captain would add an element of leadership for captain Shreyas Iyer to feed off. .
Ask the Kolkata Knight Riders’ fans about Andre Russell’s unbeaten knock of 70 in mere 31 balls on Friday night, they will wax lyricals about the all-rounder’s ability to play game-changing knocks and they would be least surprised. For they hold memories of his 13-ball 48 against RCB in 2019, an 80-run battering at the Eden Gardens against Mumbai Indians the same year and a whirlwind 36-ball 88 against CSK a year earlier to that just as fondly but it is often the premise and circumstances that add a flair and significance to his knocks. Friday night at the Wankhede Stadium was no different.
Andre Russell cracked as many as 8 sixes and two boundaries in an unbeaten knock of 70 off just 31 deliveries to power Kolkata Knight Riders to a six wicket win over the Punjab Kings with 33 balls to spare at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai.
Punjab Kings will be looking to continue their winning momentum with Kagiso Rabada available while the Knight Riders will be keen to bounce back from their loss.
In the end, the result may have looked inevitable but the fact that they managed to push an RCB side, who posted 205/2 on the same surface three nights ago, to the last over spoke about nerves of steel and a never-say-die attitude that defined characters on a two-paced surface.
In a tense finish on Wednesday night, Dinesh Karthik held his nerve to see Royal Challengers Bangalore over the line with three wickets and four balls to spare at the DY Patil Stadium in Navi Mumbai.
