IPL 2025: The Indian Premier League (2025) is going to start in a few days now. The first match of the upcoming season will be played between Kolkata Knight Riders and Royal Challengers Bangalore at Eden Gardens. In the last 17 editions of the tournament, many exciting clashes have been seen between some players. One of those player battles has been seen between Kolkata Knight Riders' Sunil Narine and Mumbai Indians' Rohit Sharma. Kolkata's star player Sunil Narine has dismissed Rohit eight times in the IPL. This is the biggest record of any bowler dismissing a single batsman in the history of the tournament. Till date no bowler has dismissed a batsman so many times.
Rohit's record against Sunil Narine is very poorRohit Sharma's record against Sunil Narine in IPL has been very poor. His average against Narine in this league has been only 17.87. Rohit has been able to score only 141 runs in 134 balls against Narine in his 21 innings at a strike rate of 106.71. Narine has dismissed Rohit eight times during this period. Rohit has been able to hit only 2 sixes against this bowler so far.
You all know that Rohit is well aware of Mumbai's Wankhede Stadium, as it is MI's home ground. Interestingly, Narine has troubled him a lot on this ground as well. He has been dismissed 5 times against this KKR bowler at Wankhede. Rohit's average against Narine there is 10.40. Narine has dismissed Rohit only once at KKR's home ground Eden Gardens.
IPL record of Rohit Sharma and Sunil NarineNarine, who has played 177 IPL matches, has taken 180 wickets at a brilliant economy of 6.73. He holds the record for taking the most 4-wicket hauls in the history of the tournament. He has taken four-wicket hauls 8 times in this league. The Caribbean spinner also took 17 wickets at an economy rate of 6.69 in the last season. Talking about Rohit Sharma, Rohit has scored 6,628 runs in 257 IPL matches at an average of 29.72. During this, he has played 43 half-centuries and two centuries. In IPL 2024, Rohit scored 417 runs at an average of 32.08 and a strike rate of 150. Now in the upcoming season too, he would like to perform well with the bat.