Stats highlights of Narine’s T20 career in which he will play his 500th game on Friday
Sampath Bandarupalli28-Mar-20241:37
Narine’s ‘amazing’ journey to 500 T20s
3 – Players before Sunil Narine to feature in 500-plus T20 matches. Kieron Pollard leads the list with 660 appearances, while Dwayne Bravo (573) and Shoaib Malik (542) are next.536 – Wickets for Narine in T20s are the third-most behind Bravo’s 625 and Rashid Khan’s 566 scalps. Imran Tahir (502) is the only other bowler with 500-plus T20 wickets.6.10 – Narine’s career economy rate is the second-best among the 309 players who have bowled 2000-plus balls in men’s T20s. Only Samuel Badree is ahead of Narine, with an economy rate of 6.08 in his 197-match T20 career.1 – Narine’s economy rate (7.18) in the death overs (17-20) is the best among those who have bowled 600-plus balls in men’s T20s (where ball-by-ball data is available). Narine’s economy rate of 6.08 in the first six overs is the second-best among the bowlers with 1200-plus balls, behind only Bhuvneshwar Kumar (6.00).30 – Maiden overs bowled by Narine are the most for any bowler in men’s T20s. Narine’s tally does not include the Super Over he bowled in the 2014 CPL match for Guyana Amazon Warriors against Nicholas Pooran and Ross Taylor while defending 11.9 – Narine dismissed both Shane Watson and Rohit Sharma on nine occasions each. Only one other bowler has dismissed a batter nine or more times in men’s T20s – Bravo, who claimed Kieron Pollard’s wicket on ten instances.10 – Batters dismissed by Narine on five or more instances in T20s, including Watson and Rohit. Sohail Tanvir (seven), Evin Lewis (six), Chris Gayle (six), Martin Guptill (six), Chadwick Walton (five), Rovman Powell (five), Dwayne Smith (five) and Ambati Rayudu (five) are the other batters he dismissed five or more times. R Ashwin (eight) is second on the list for dismissing most batters on five or more occasions in men’s T20s.