Jofra Archer scripts history vs KKR, becomes only second bowler to...

Jofra Archer struck with the archetypal shot of the 2nd innings to adjacent a grounds held by Mohammed Shami during Rajasthan Royals’ IPL 2026 lucifer against Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) astatine Eden Gardens connected Sunday.Opening the bowling for Rajasthan Royals, Archer bowled KKR opener Tim Seifert for a aureate duck with the archetypal transportation of KKR’s innings. With this, Archer present has 5 wickets connected the archetypal shot of an IPL innings, matching Shami’s record.He had besides taken wickets connected the opening shot successful RR’s erstwhile 2 matches — against Royal Challengers Bengaluru connected April 10 and Sunrisers Hyderabad connected April 13 — dismissing Phil Salt and Abhishek Sharma respectively.Wickets disconnected the archetypal shot of an IPL innings (most):

Earlier, aft winning the toss, Rajasthan Royals chose to bat. Varun Chakravarthy and Sunil Narine combined to instrumentality 5 wickets and restricted RR to 155 for nine.It could person been worse for RR had KKR not conceded crushed successful the powerfulness play.Rajasthan made a beardown start, reaching 63 without nonaccomplishment arsenic Yashasvi Jaiswal and Vaibhav Sooryavanshi scored astatine implicit 10 runs per implicit against the gait attack.The lucifer changed aft rotation was introduced. Sooryavanshi deed Narine for a six disconnected his 2nd ball, but Narine followed it with 5 dot deliveries. Chakravarthy past dismissed Sooryavanshi with his 4th ball, completing his 200th T20 wicket. The batter was caught by Ramandeep Singh astatine heavy midwicket.Rajasthan Royals slipped from a beardown presumption to 118 for 4 successful 15 overs, with the tally complaint dropping beneath eight.