SUNIL NARINE

Another Caribbean star who has been KKR’s cornerstone is Sunil Narine. He had 122 wickets in 110 matches before IPL 2020 and was expected to bring in much-needed experience in the bowling lineup, especially with Kuldeep Yadav’s struggles with confidence since the last IPL 2019 was a horrible experience for the left-arm chinaman.  

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KKR had invested in Varun Chakravarthy as Sunil Narine’s backup and no one had fathomed that he will turn out to be their best bowler and Narine would struggle with both fitness and his bowling action. His bowling action was reported by the authorities in midst of the tournament, causing him to sit out of a few matches.

Narine didn’t look like his old self at all and even with the bat, apart from one innings of 64, he didn’t look threatening at all. Overall in 10 IPL 2020 matches, he made 121 runs at a strike rate of 142.35 and picked 5 wickets at an economy of 7.94. Far from what KKR would have expected from their first-rate spinner in such a crunch tournament.