A superb record of champion Bravo: Equals Malinga in terms of taking most wickets in IPL.
The first match of the 15th season of the Indian Premier League was played between Chennai Super Kings and Kolkata Knight Riders on Saturday. In this match, bowler Dwayne Bravo, playing for Chennai, equaled Malinga’s record for taking the most wickets in IPL. Malinga has 170 wickets in 122 matches of IPL. Bravo took 3 wickets for 20 runs in 4 overs in the match against KKR on Saturday. With this, he equaled Malinga’s record. Bravo now has 170 wickets in 152 matches.
At the same time, among Indian players, Amit Mishra holds the record for taking the most wickets in the IPL. Mishra has taken 166 wickets in 154 matches. He is at number three in terms of taking over all wickets. At the same time, Piyush Chawla is second in terms of taking the most wickets among Indian players. He has 157 wickets in 165 matches. While Harbhajan Singh is at number three. He has taken 150 wickets in 163 matches.
Bravo took the wickets of Rana, Iyer, and Billings
Bravo came to bowl in the 7th over after the first powerplay against KKR and showed Venkatesh Iyer the way to the pavilion on the second ball of his over. After 2 overs, he got the wicket of Nitish Rana Bravo took the third wicket as Billings in the eighteenth over. Bravo has done the feat of taking 4 wickets twice in IPL and he hunts every 17 balls.
Most T20 wickets in the name of Bravo
Now Bravo needs 1 more wicket to break Malinga’s record. By the way, if we talk about overall T20 cricket, then Bravo is the highest wicket-taker. He has taken 571 wickets in 522 T20s up until this point. Imran Tahir is second in this rundown with 451 wickets. Rashid Khan has 435 wickets and is in third place.
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