In the 8th match of IPL 2024, Mumbai Indians faced Sunrisers Hyderabad. In this match, Mumbai Indians captain Hardik Pandya won the toss and decided to bowl first. Mumbai Indians team performed very shamefully with the ball in this match and the team looked very weak. During this time, captain Hardik Pandya had included a 17-year-old player in the playing 11. Including this player in the playing 11 proved very costly for Hardik Pandya. He gave South African fast bowler Kwena Mafaka a chance to debut in the IPL.
Made a shameful record on debut
Kwena Mafaka performed very shamefully in his debut match. He spent 66 runs in his 4 overs without taking a single wicket. With this, this was the worst performance by any player in his IPL debut. Before this, no bowler had bowled such poorly on his debut. At the same time, in the history of IPL, it has come to the fourth place in terms of worst bowling performance.
17-year-old Kwena Mafaka was included in the team before the start of the season in place of injured Sri Lankan fast bowler Dilshan Madushanka. Mafaka is one of the youngest players in the team. Till now he has played only in Under-19 cricket. Mafaka’s 0/66 is the most expensive bowling spell on IPL debut, surpassing Michael Neser’s 0/62 for PBKS vs RCB in Mohali in 2013.
Worst bowling performance of IPL
0/70 (4) – Basil Thampi SRH vs RCB, Bengaluru, 2018
0/69 (4) – Yash Dayal GT vs KKR, Ahmedabad, 2023
1/66 (3.5) – Arshdeep Singh PBKS vs MI, Mohali, 2023
0/66 (4) – Kwena Mfaka MI vs SRH, Hyderabad, 2024
0/66 (4) – Ishant Sharma SRH vs CSK, Hyderabad, 2013
0/66 (4) – Mujeeb Ur Rahman PBKS vs SRH, Hyderabad, 2019
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