Sunil Narine has been the surprise package of IPL-5 and has played a vital role in Kolkata Knight Riders\u2019 success in this year\u2019s league, taking 24 wickets in 14 matches so far. He has got a wicket on every 14th ball \u2013 and seems to be having a great time. <\/p>\n
A spinner calling the shots in death overs is unheard of in T20 and Narine is the only slow bowler to do so here in IPL with almost 100 per cent success rate. \u201cI am used to bowling in the death overs and I am thankful to the Kolkata team management for showing confidence in my ability. I hope to do the same in the last match of the tournament,\u201d he said while refusing to share his recipe for success which has made him such a dangerous customer<\/p>\n
When asked about the batsmen who have played him, Sunil said, \u201cI don\u2019t know… but amongst all the batsmen I have bowled against, Rohit Sharma has played me the best,\u201d he admitted. <\/p>\n
\u201cI am feeling at home and like this country a lot. There are a lot of similarities between the West Indies and India and biggest of them all is cricket. I am enjoying every moment of it,\u201d Narine told Times Of India <\/strong>on Wednesday.<\/p>\n According to a report in Hindustan Times, <\/strong>Sourav Ganguly handpicked the Kolkata Knight Riders as the \u201chot favourites\u201d to win the IPL. He said his sixth sense picked KKR as the probable winners. \u201cThey, however, would look to avoid facing Chennai in the final. Otherwise, they look to be the best team to win the IPL this time,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Meanwhile DNA <\/strong>writes that it wasn\u2019t just the luck factor but a spirited performance by Mahendra Singh Dhoni and his boys that helped Chennai Super Kings beat Mumbai Indians by 38 runs to enter the second qualifier, where they will face Delhi Daredevils for a place in the final of the IPL. CSK were third time lucky, this being their first win over Mumbai in three meetings. But more importantly, the win kept them in hunt for their third successive title.<\/p>\n Chasing 188, Mumbai Indians started off brilliantly as Sachin Tendulkar (11) and Dwayne Smith (38) added 47 runs for the opening wicket in just 4.5 overs.<\/p>\n But after Tendulkar was run out, following a terrible mix up Smith, the match turned in CSK\u2019s favour. Mumbai kept losing wickets at regular intervals as they ended up with 149 for nine in 20 overs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sunil Narine has been the surprise package of IPL-5 and has played a vital role in Kolkata Knight Riders\u2019 success in this year\u2019s league, taking 24 wickets in 14 matches so far. He has got a wicket on every 14th ball \u2013 and seems to be having a great time. A spinner calling the shots […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[4219,622,724,556,544,2379],"class_list":["post-6527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-from-the-newspapers","tag-kkr","tag-mahendra-singh-dhoni","tag-rohit-sharma","tag-sachin-tendulkar","tag-sourav-ganguly","tag-sunil-narine"],"yoast_head":"\n