{"id":19611,"date":"2022-04-18T20:47:19","date_gmt":"2022-04-18T15:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=214920"},"modified":"2022-04-18T20:47:19","modified_gmt":"2022-04-18T15:17:19","slug":"tata-ipl-2022-sunil-narine-becomes-first-cricketer-to-play-150-matches-for-kolkata-knight-riders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/ipl\/tata-ipl-2022-sunil-narine-becomes-first-cricketer-to-play-150-matches-for-kolkata-knight-riders\/","title":{"rendered":"TATA IPL 2022: Sunil Narine becomes first cricketer to play 150 matches for Kolkata Knight Riders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sunil Narine, the outstanding all-rounder for the two-time champion Kolkata Knight Riders, became the first player to play 150 games for the team on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>From delivering KKR some rapid starts as an opener to controlling their middle-order to boosting the bottom order, Narine has remained KKR\u2019s go-to player at practically all the batting situations during the 10 years.<\/p>\n<p>Narine is also the franchise\u2019s leading wicket-taker. He has 165 wickets to his record, with the best bowling statistics of 5\/19. In the meanwhile, he has bowled at a 6.58 economy rate.<\/p>\n<p>Narine, a Caribbean all-rounder, has a strike rate of 162.13 and has scored 976 runs in 140 games in the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old Narine scored 977 runs in 149 games with KKR, with a strike rate of 161.48. For the franchise, his greatest score is 75 not out. 59 sixes and 108 fours were hit by the left-handed hitter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunil Narine has 147 wickets at an economy rate of 6.67 in the last 149 games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":271,"featured_media":40279,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[611,3270],"class_list":["post-19611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ipl","tag-kolkata-knight-riders","tag-sunil-naraine"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/271"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}