Magical bowling by RCB player. (Photo- PTI)
Suyash Sharma vs Delhi Capitals: Royal Challengers Bangalore achieved a stormy victory against the Delhi team. In the 39th match of the season, the fast bowlers of Royal Challengers Bangalore wreaked havoc. Fast bowlers Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Josh Hazlewood together took a total of 7 wickets, due to which the Delhi team collapsed after scoring only 75 runs. But during this time, a 22 year old spinner did such a feat, which got recorded in the history of IPL.
Magical bowling of RCB player
In this match, Royal Challengers Bangalore’s young spinner Suyyash Sharma also bowled amazingly. Delhi batsmen were seen struggling against the spin of Suyyash Sharma. He spent only 7 runs in his 4 over spell, including 3 runs from wide balls. At the same time, Suyyash Sharma also took 1 wicket while bowling a maiden over. During this period, his economy rate was only 1.75, which is very low in IPL. This proved to be the joint second most economical spell in IPL history. Now only Yuzvendra Chahal is ahead of him in this list, who has once bowled 4 overs with an economy of 1.5.
Along with this, Suyyash Sharma bowled a total of 20 dot balls in 4 overs, which is the record for bowling the most dot balls in a match by any spinner in IPL history. Earlier this record was only in the name of fast bowler Deepak Chahar, who bowled 20 dot balls for Chennai Super Kings against Kolkata Knight Riders in the year 2019. Now both Suyyash and Deepak Chahar are sharing this record.
Who is Suyyash Sharma?
Suyyash Sharma made his IPL debut in 2023 for Kolkata Knight Riders. In his very first match, he took 3 wickets for 30 runs against RCB. After playing for KKR in 2023 and 2024, he is a part of the Royal Challengers Bangalore team from 2025. So far he has taken 24 wickets in 34 IPL matches. During this period his economy rate has been 8.55, in the current season he is spending runs with an economy rate of 7.84.
