Last week he took theIPL2022’s best bowling figures with five wickets for 25 runs against the table-topping Gujarat Titans. Malik shattered stumps with yorkers at high pace, discomfiting batters with short balls that they could barely react to, and pounding a length that kept them on their...
In 63 IPL games, he has picked 59 wickets so far. An economy rate of 7.8 shows his ability to stop the leakage of runs from one end. Adding on, he has the best bowling figures of 4/13 to his name. Talking about his batting, he has significantly improved with the bat. In 63 IPL...
Three of the four great allrounders of the 1980s are mentioned in the table below; the fourth, Ian Botham, had a slightly lower ratio: he averaged 28.54 at an economy rate of 3.96, in an era when the corresponding figures were 30.92 and 4.13. His ratio, thus, came to 1.13, a tad ...