NEW DELHI: West Indian all-rounder Sunil Narine went hammer and tongs on Wednesday, giving Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) a begin to keep in mind for a very long time throughout their IPL match in opposition to Delhi Capitals in Visakhapatnam.
Narine, who scored only one boundary until the third over, broke the shackles as he launched an assault on seasoned DC seamer Ishant Sharma, hammering him for 26 runs within the fourth over of the innings after KKR skipper Shreyas Iyer opted to bat first.Narine began off with back-to-back sixes off the very first two balls, and adopted it up with a cracking boundary. Ishant delivered an odd dot ball on the fourth to take a sigh of reduction however solely to be hit for a six and 4 on the following two deliveries.

Narine, who added 104 runs for the second wicket in fast time with younger batter Angkrish Raghuvanshi, lastly received out on 85, his highest T20 rating, which got here in 39 balls. His knock was studded with 7 fours and as many sixes.
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Raghuvanshi, who slammed a 25-ball fifty in his IPL debut innings, gave good firm to Narine after the autumn of opener Philip Salt (18).
DC introduced in Sumit Kumar instead of injured Mukesh Kumar, whereas Raghuvanshi has been included in KKR’s taking part in XI within the workforce’s solely change for the match.