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Top 5 Bowling Performances Of Kagiso Rabada In IPL

image-lr3ylcsbRabada is ready to play his third season for Punjab Kings

The Indian Premier League, which is one of the prominent T20 leagues in the world have been nothing short of opportunities for the domestic as well as the foreign players. The league admires the overseas fast bowlers and the Auctions for the IPL 2024 were the appropriate display of the same admiration towards the overseas seamers, as Spencer Johnson, Pat Cummins, and Mitchell Starc got truckloads of money. 

Kagiso Rabada is another overseas seamer, who has been making waves in the IPL for a while now and is known to bowl 145 kmph consistently. In 69 IPL outings, the Protea fire, while playing for Delhi Capitals and Punjab Kings, has bagged 106 wickets so far and has been troubling the batters since 2017. OneCricket remembers a few of his most fiery spells in his IPL career so far.

Let's have a look at the top 5 bowling performances of Kagiso Rabada in the Indian Premier League.

4/21 vs Royal Challengers Bangalore, Bangalore, 2019

image-lr3yczafKagiso Rabada against RCB

In the 20th match of the IPL 2019 season, Delhi Capitals had a thumping win over the hosts, Royal Challengers Bangalore and Kagiso Rabada turned out to be the standout performer. While batting first, RCB could only post 149 runs against the likes of Ishant Sharma, Chris Morris and Kagiso Rabada. 

Rabada, who was playing his 12th IPL game, stunned the RCB batters with his fiery spell and recorded his best IPL figures of 4/21, dismissing the likes of Virat Kohli and AB De Villiers. His spell full of wickets helped restrict RCB to just 149 and DC claimed the victory with four wickets in hand.


4/22 vs Sunrisers Hyderabad, Hyderabad, 2019

image-lr3yfjy4Kagiso Rabada against SRH

In the 30th game of the 2019 season, Sunrisers Hyderabad restricted Delhi Capitals to just 155 runs and the only way DC could win the game was by dismissing David Warner as early as possible. The pitch was favouring the bowlers and with the kind of bowling line-up DC had, they could win it comfortably and that's what happened. 

Even though Warner went on to score a fifty, Kagiso Rabada dismissed him at a very crucial time, when the game was about to slip away from DC. The right-arm speedster went on to pick four wickets in total and helped his team bowl out the hosts for just 116 and claim the win. 


4/24 vs Royal Challengers Bangalore, Dubai, 2020

image-lr3yhi3hKagiso Rabada against RCB

In the year 2020, IPL was played in Dubai due to the rise of Covid cases in India. In the 19th game of the tournament, Delhi Capitals were facing Royal Challengers Bangalore and posted a huge score of 196 while batting first. With the bowling attack Delhi had, it was an easy walk to the win. 

Kagiso Rabada went on to pick four wickets and this was his second four-wicket haul against the RCB team. This was also the second time when he picked up the wicket of Virat Kohli in the IPL. Rabada not only helped his team defend the total but made sure that DC won convincingly as they went on to win by 59 runs.


4/29 vs Sunrisers Hyderabad, Abu Dhabi, 2020

image-lr3yb3auKagiso Rabada against SRH

This was the time when Delhi Capitals qualified for the playoffs for the straight second time. In the qualifier 2, Delhi were playing against the 2016 IPL champions Sunrisers Hyderabad. While batting first, Delhi posted a total of 189 and they just needed to defend the score to make it to the finals. 

Kagiso Rabada stepped up in the bowling department and took DC to the finals single-handedly, picking up 4 wickets. He dismissed Warner in his very first over and removed the dangerous-looking Abdul Samad at the back end, helping DC seal a close-fought victory by 17 runs.


4/33 vs Gujarat Titans, Mumbai, 2022

image-lr3ygfgnKagiso Rabada against GT

In the 48th game of the IPL season 2022, the season from which Rabada started playing for Punjab Kings, Gujarat Titans could only post a total of 148 runs at the DY Patil stadium and Kagiso Rabada was the sole reason for Gujarat's poor performance. 

In his four overs spell, Rabada went on to pick four wickets and restricted Gujarat to just 148 runs. Punjab Kings registered a comprehensive victory against the team that went on to become the champions of the same season.