In the 17th season of the Indian Premier League (IPL), Sunil Narayan played an important role with both the ball and the bat in making the Kolkata Knight Riders team the winner for the third time. Narayan was not seen in that form in the last few seasons, but in IPL 2024, his old form was seen on the field once again. While Sunil Narayan took the responsibility of opening the innings with the bat for the KKR team in the 17th season of IPL, he also showed his magic with the ball. Narayan also managed to score the first century of his IPL career this season. Sunil Narayan was also given the Most Valuable Player award of this season after the final match, by winning which he also made a special record.
Sunil Narayan won this title for the third time
Sunil Narayan has become the first player in the history of IPL to win the Most Valuable Player title for the third time. While Narayan scored 488 runs this season, he also managed to take 17 wickets. When the KKR team won the IPL title for the first time in 2012, it was Narayan’s debut IPL season and he took 24 wickets in it and won the title for the first time. After this, in the IPL season played in the year 2018, Sunil Narayan took 17 wickets with the ball and also managed to score 357 runs with the bat and won the Most Valuable Player award for the second time.
Could not show amazing performance with the bat in the final match
Sunil Narayan could not show any special feat with the bat in the final match of IPL 2024 played against Sunrisers Hyderabad and returned to the pavilion after scoring just 6 runs. At the same time, Sunil Narayan was ranked 9th in the list of players scoring the most runs this season. A total of 33 sixes and 50 fours were also seen from Narayan’s bat this season, after which he also hit a total of 83 boundaries in the 17th season of IPL. Narayan’s strike rate this season was 180.
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