Punjab Kings defeated Kolkata Knight Riders by 16 runs in a thrilling match in IPL 2025 on Saturday. In this match, an incident occurred which caught everyone’s attention.
In this match played in Mulanpur, Chandigarh, when KKR openers Sunil Naren and Quinton de Kock came to bat, the umpire stopped the match and checked Naren’s bat. Surprisingly, his bat was found illegal during this period.
Sunil Naren’s bat did not go right
The thickest part of Sunil Narayan’s bat did not fit into the gauge used for measurement. Sunil Narayan discussed the matter with Syed Khalid. The umpire then checked the bat of his fellow player Angkrish Raghuvanshi, which was passed without any trouble.
Sunil Naren’s performance will be like this in IPL 2025
Sunil Naren has played 6 matches for KKR so far this season. He scored 44 runs against Royal Challengers Bangalore. He also scored 44 runs against Chennai Super Kings. But he could not do anything special against Sunrisers Hyderabad and Mumbai Indians. Naren could not even open his account against Mumbai. He scored 30 runs against Lucknow.
Raghuvanshi was the top scorer of KKR.
In the match, Sunil Narine scored 5 runs from 4 balls, while Raghuvanshi was the highest scorer for Kolkata by scoring 37 off 28 balls. According to IPL rules, the width of the bat should not exceed 10.79 cm. The thickness of the blade should be up to 6.7 cm and the width of the edge should not exceed 4 cm. Apart from this, the length of the bat should not exceed 96.4 cm.
The bat of Enrich Nortje was also not in accordance with the rules.
At the end of the match, when KKR’s wickets were falling, fast bowler Enrich Nortje was the last batsman to live unbeaten. Field umpires Mohit Krishnadas and Sayedarshan Kumar found that Nortje’s bat was also not in accordance with bat shape rules. This led to a slight delay in starting the match as additional bat was brought to the field by bench player Rahmanullah Gurbaz.
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