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Thursday, July 24, 2025

Another landmark for Bravo on birthday

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Sports Desk
1750 days ago
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Dwayne Bravo, of the Chennai Super Kings.

Dwayne Bravo, of the Chennai Super Kings.

ABU DHABI, Unit­ed Arab Emi­rates – Vet­er­an West In­dies all-rounder, Dwayne Bra­vo cel­e­brat­ed his 37 birth­day af­ter he snatched a three-wick­et haul to reach 150 wick­ets in the In­di­an Pre­mier League but Chen­nai Su­per Kings came up short with the bat to slump to a 10-run de­feat to Kolkata Knight Rid­ers on Wednes­day.

With both An­dre Rus­sell and Sunil Nar­ine mis-fir­ing with the bat, KKR were dis­missed for 167 off their 20 overs, af­ter choos­ing to bat first at the Sheikh Za­yed Sta­di­um.

Open­er Rahul Tri­pathi top-scored with 81 off 51 de­liv­er­ies in on­ly his sec­ond ap­pear­ance of the sea­son but was the on­ly bats­man to pass 20 as KKR tailed off bad­ly fol­low­ing a strong start.

Bra­vo picked up two of his wick­ets and con­ced­ed just five runs in the fi­nal over to be the best bowler with three for 37 from his four overs of medi­um pace.

Nar­ine, pushed down the or­der to four, ex­tend­ed his poor run with 17 off nine balls while Rus­sell, in at num­ber six, last­ed four balls for his two be­fore edg­ing a slog be­hind off seam­er Shardul Thankur in the 16th over.

In re­ply, Aus­tralian open­er Shane Wat­son top-scored with 50 and Am­bati Rayudu chipped in with 30 but CSK could on­ly muster 157 for five off their 20 overs.

They were cruis­ing at 90 for one at the halfway mark but man­aged on­ly 67 runs from the last 10 overs.

Wat­son put on 30 for the first wick­et with Faf du Plessis (17) and a fur­ther 69 for the sec­ond with Rayudu but off-spin­ner Nar­ine (1-31) struck the key blow in the 14th over when he trapped Wat­son lbw.

Rus­sell, who fin­ished with one for 18 from two overs, prised out the dan­ger­ous Sam Cur­ran (17) at the start of the 18th over, with the Eng­lish­man be­gin­ning to wind up with a four and a six off 11 balls, to fur­ther stall the in­nings.

Tasked with de­fend­ing 26 runs in the last over, Rus­sell gave up a six and two fours off the last three balls as Ravin­dra Jade­ja (21 not out) went on a late charge.

(CMC)


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