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David Warner Vs Sunil Narine Rivalry Resumes As Srh Kkr Begin Their Ipl 2021 Campaign

David Warner vs Sunil Narine rivalry resumes as SRH, KKR begin their IPL 2021 campaign

As the Sunrisers Hyderabad and the Kolkata Knight Riders are gearing up to start their campaign in the ongoing edition of the Indian Premier League, the game will also offer many contests within a contest.

Out of all the riveting battles to watch out for, the duel between Sunrisers’ skipper David Warner and Knight Riders’ ace spinner Sunil Narine will be prominent of them all.

The Sunrisers will back their leader to come at the top of the mystery spinner once again as he has done over a long period of time in IPL.

In total, Warner has taken 190 runs off a total of 122 balls bowled by Narine with a staggering strike rate of 155.7 runs per 100 balls over a long period of time in IPL. The Australian left-hander has hit Narine for as many as 15 fours and 10 sixes.

Overall, David Warner has been an IPL legend for over an 11-year long career in the cash-rich league. He has amassed 5254 runs from 142 matches with an average of 42.71 and a strike rate of 141.54 runs per 100 balls.

On the other hand, Sunil Narine, too, has been phenomenal with the ball for the Kolkata Knight Riders. However, his stocks have nosedived in the last few seasons with him struggling due to suspected action and batsmen finding out tricks to negate his variations.

He has taken 127 wickets from 120 matches with an astounding average-economy rate combo of 24.77 runs per wicket and 6.77 runs per over for over a nine-year period in the IPL.

The contest between Warner and Narine will offer a riveting spectacle for the fans of both franchises and the individual players. However, for Warner to get into the stage of taking on Narine, he will have to first take on and win a duel against his countryman Pat Cummins.

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IPL 2021: Mumbai Indians players and support staffs share their views on IPL returning to India

The 14th edition of the Indian Premier League returned to India after the previous edition being held in UAE. Despite the whole tournament being played behind closed doors, the feeling of returning to India and playing the cash-rich league is quite surreal, especially for the local players. Mumbai Indians who started off their campaign with a defeat at the hands of the Royal Challengers Bangalore will look to get their act right in their coming games. Mumbai Indians haven’t won any of their opening games in the IPL since 2012 and they continued their trend in the opening match of the 14th season. During a recent video posted by the Mumbai Indians on their Twitter handle, the players and the support staffs can be seen giving their views on the tournament returning to where it belongs. Former Indian pacer and currently the Director of Cricket Operations in the Mumbai Indians, Zaheer Khan said that it is always a special moment to play the extravaganza in India. All the editions of the tournament have been held in India barring the 2009 edition which was shifted to South Africa. Meanwhile, the first phase of the 2015 edition was also held in UAE. “ All the fans will be very excited that the IPL has come back to India,” Zaheer said during the video. Meanwhile wicket-keeper batsman Aditya Tare added that the players were lucky that IPL was held in UAE last year very successfully and to top it off Mumbai Indians bagged their 5th IPL title. Meanwhile captain Rohit Sharma also expressed his excitement with the IPL being back in India. Fast bowling coach Shane Bond also gave his opinion on the fact that how it is different for the Indian players to be back in their own den and despite not having home advantage as such, it feels that the players are back in their own territory.

Jason Roy set to miss atleast two opening matches for SRH

England and Sunrisers Hyderabad new recruit Jason Roy will miss the first two matches for the franchise. Roy who landed in India on April 10 will have to serve a mandatory seven-day quarantine. SRH will play a couple of games during this period, the first against Kolkata Knight Riders on April 11 in Chennai and then against Royal Challengers Bangalore on April 14 at the same venue. The right-handed batsman might be eligible for the match against MI that is scheduled to take place on April 17 in Chennai as well. The England batsman was a part of the Gujarat Lions (2017) and Delhi Capitals (2018) while opted out of the 2020 edition’s IPL due to personal reasons. The right-handed batsman has played 8 matches scoring 179 runs during the course. Sunrisers Hyderabad had acquired Roy at his base price of INR 2 Crore. The Englishman replaced Australia all-rounder Mitchell Marsh in the squad who had earlier opted out of the tournament. Roy was among some runs in the recently-concluded T20I series against India where he notched up 144 runs in 5 matches. SRH begin their IPL 2021 campaign against KKR on Sunday in Chennai. SQAUD: David Warner (c), Kane Williamson, Jonny Bairstow (wk), Manish Pandey, Sreevats Goswami (wk), Wriddhiman Saha (wk), Priyam Garg, Vijay Shankar, Abhishek Sharma, Abdul Samad, Virat Singh, Mitchell Marsh, Jason Holder, Mohammad Nabi, Rashid Khan, Shahbaz Nadeem, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, T. Natarajan, Sandeep Sharma, Khaleel Ahmed, Siddarth Kaul, Basil Thampi, Jagadeesha Suchith, Kedar Jadhav, Mujeeb-ur-Rahman

Playing for India has added to my confidence: Prasidh Krishna

Kolkata Knight Riders pacer Prasidh Krishna recently made his debut for India during the series against England at home. The right-arm fast bowler became the first Indian to pick up four wickets on his ODI debut. The right-arm quick bowler in an interaction with the KKR’s official website explained how playing for the country has added to his confidence. “It's been a great experience to have made my debut for India. It's a dream come true for any cricketer. In terms of the praise I have been getting, it only adds to my confidence levels and I look forward to taking it ahead from here," he said. Krishna further told that being in the Indian dressing room has helped him add up more skills to his armour. “Every single game that I was a part of, I tried to be at my best. There was no specific variation that I had been working on, but I did learn some important lessons while playing for Team India,” he said. The pacer said that skipper Virat Kohli and other senior members calmed him down during the pressure situation and it helped him eventually. “At the beginning of the match where I made my debut, there was a bit of pressure. But Virat and the other seniors told me to always be on the front foot, and it worked well,” he said. The Kolkata franchise begins their IPL 2021 campaign against Sunrisers Hyderabad in Chennai on Sunday. KKR have lifted the trophy twice in the earlier editions under the captaincy of Gautam Gambhir.

Venkatesh Prasad shares his own 'Indiranagar ka Gunda' moment on Twitter

The 14th edition of the Indian Premier League began with a bang with Royal Challengers Bangalore starting off with a last-ball victory against the defending champions Mumbai Indians. However, what created more hype than the RCB-MI encounter was a TV commercial featuring Rahul Dravid. Dravid who is regarded as a calm and a composed character who hardly loses his cool is seen losing his temper during a road rage. He is animated as is also seen breaking a car’s mirror in anger. Twitterati lauded his acting skills after seeing a different avatar of Dravid. Regarded as one of the greatest batsmen India has ever seen, Dravid formed the core of the Indian batting line-up ever since making his Test debut back in 1996. All through his career, we have hardly seen Dravid lose his temper and the closest he came to losing his anger was during an MI-RR clash where Dravid was mentoring the Rajasthan Royals. After Aditya Tare hit that famous six and went off in a celebratory run, Dravid threw his cap away in disgust. Dravid’s Karnataka and Indian teammate Venkatesh Prasad reacted to Dravid’s video and shared his own version of ‘Indiranagar Ka Gunda’ moment, the phrase which went viral after Dravid was seen saying this in the commercial. Prasad shared a collage of his famous dismissal of Pakistan batsman Aamer Sohail during the quarter-final of the ICC Cricket World Cup back in 1996. Sohail was batting brilliantly and had just smashed Prasad for a boundary. He looked animated and pointed his fingers towards the cover boundary as if to say “ I am also going to hit the next one there, fetch it if you can”. What transpired in the next delivery is etched in the Indian-Pakistan cricketing folklores. Sohail had a brain fade moment and went for a mighty heave down the leg side which turned out to be an awful shot from Aamer. Prasad bowled the right area and the stumps went for a cartwheel. A famous send-off followed and that wicket set the tone for a famous Indian victory. Referring to his Indiranagar ka Gunda wala moment, Prasad tweeted, "Me to Aamir Sohail in Bangalore at 14.5 - #IndiraNagarkaGunda hoon main," the 14.5 referring to the 15th over of Pakistan's innings.