Sunil Narine, one of the greatest ever bowlers of T20 cricket, notched up another peak in the format, 600 wickets. Narine, who was stranded on 599 scalps at the end of the Caribbean Premier League (CPL) in September, dismissed Sharjah Warriorz's Tom Abell to reach the landmark in Abu Dhabi Knight Riders' opening game of the ILT20 on Wednesday, December 3 in Sharjah, Narine, who was leading the Knight Riders in Jason Holder's absence, became only the third bowler to have taken 600-plus wickets in the shortest recognised format.
Rashid Khan tops the list with 681 wickets to his name, while former West Indies all-rounder Dwayne Bravo is in second place with 631 wickets to his name. Narine has surprisingly taken the most number of matches to get to the landmark. However, as he mentioned after the Knight Riders' win, he was just glad that he got it off the list after being on 599 for more than two months.
Most wickets in T20 cricket
681 - Rashid Khan (495 innings)
631 - Dwayne Bravo (546 innings)
600 - Sunil Narine (558 innings)
570 - Imran Tahir (429 innings)
504 - Shakib Al Hasan (453 innings)
Since Rashid has been signed by MI Emirates as a replacement player, the Afghan leggie will have an opportunity to get to the 700 mark, since he will be playing both ILT20 and SA20 back to back.
Sharjah Warriorz's decision to field first didn't yield positive results for Tim Southee and Co as Liam Livingstone and Sherfane Rutherford blasted quickfire knocks to help the Abu Dhabi Knight Riders to get to a huge score of 233 runs. Livingstone smoked 33 runs off Dwayne Pretorius's over to take the total out of Warriorz's reach. Tim David tried his best, with some help from Pretorius and Adil Rashid but it wasn't enough and the Knight Riders began their campaign with a terrific 39-run win.
