DTVHINDISunil Narine made a big record in his name in IPL, joined this special ‘club’ along with Rohit-Watson
Narayan has become the third player to score a century and take a hat-trick wicket in the IPL. Sunil Narine (Photo Source X/Twitter) In IPL 2024, on Tuesday, Sunil Narine made a big record against Rajasthan Royals. He has become the third player to score a century and take a hat-trick wicket in IPL. There are two more names in this list, which also includes an Indian cricketer. Sunil Narine took a hat-trick wicket against Punjab in Mohali in the 2013 IPL season. He then took the wickets of David Hussey, Gurkeerat Singh and Azhar Mahmood in three consecutive balls. Now on 16 April 2024, Sunil Narayan scored his first T20 century against Rajasthan at Eden Gordon. Narayan joins Rohit-Watson’s club Narayan completed his century in 49 balls and played a key role in taking KKR to 223 runs in 20 overs. He hit 13 fours and 6 sixes in his innings. However, his innings went in vain as Rajasthan Royals won the match by two wickets. In bowling, Narayan took two important wickets giving 30 runs in four overs. Apart from Narayan, the names of Indian captain Rohit Sharma and former Australian all-rounder Shane Watson are also included in the list of those who scored a century and took a hat-trick in the IPL. Rohit Sharma has two centuries to his name. Apart from this, he took a hat-trick against Mumbai Indians while playing for Deccan Chargers in 2009. On the other hand, Shane Watson has scored 4 centuries in IPL. Apart from this, while playing for Rajasthan in 2014, he scored a hat-trick against Hyderabad. He had dismissed Shikhar Dhawan, Moises Henriques and Karn Sharma. Talking about the KKR vs RR match, the target of 224 runs set by KKR was achieved by Rajasthan Royals with 2 wickets remaining thanks to a brilliant century by Jos Buttler. Butler remained unbeaten till the end and returned after playing an inning of 107* runs.
