Shreyas Iyer falls wanting making Brendon McCullum’s IPL prediction come true 14 years after historic hundred

It’s been 14 years since a Kolkata Knight Riders batter scored 100 within the IPL. Brendon McCullum, who’s presently the coach of the 2-time champion, stays the one man to have crossed the 3-figure mark in KKR colors.

On April 18, 2008, McCullum had given the world a style of what was to come back within the IPL with a shocking knock for KKR towards RCB within the first-ever match within the IPL. McCullum smashed 158 from simply 73 balls, smashing 13 sixes and 10 boundaries. The small boundaries on the M Chinnaswamy Stadium weren’t large enough as McCullum stored sending them over the ropes, firing KKR to 222/3 in 20 overs.

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When requested in regards to the hundred droughts for KKR batters on the 14th anniversary of his particular knock, McCullum stated he had a sense that one in every of his boys would break the undesirable streak on Monday when the Knight Riders had been chasing a mammoth whole of 218 towards Rajasthan Royals.

McCullum, talking to the broadcasters throughout RR’s innings on Monday, stated:” Funny to say that Bish, I actually told David Hussey on the way to the ground tonight. ‘Huss, I think one of our boys is going to get a hundred tonight. I just got a feeling here, that something special is going to happen to one of our lads’.”

Jos Buttler’s 2nd IPL 2022 hundred gave the Royals a mammoth whole of 217 which they managed to efficiently defend.

However, KKR didn’t go down with out a combat. Shreyas Iyer got here near becoming a member of Brendon McCullum as he smashed 85 off simply 51 balls. The new KKR skipper stitched a 107-run stand with Aaron Finch even because the Australia opener set the tone for his or her chase after they misplaced Sunil Narine for 0 as a result of a run-out.

Iyer carried on after Finch’s exit for 58 (28 balls) within the ninth over and introduced the equation right down to 40 in 4 overs. Just when it appeared like Iyer would lead KKR to a victory, Yuzvendra Chahal picked up 4 wickets, together with a hat-trick within the seventeenth over, to dent KKR’s hopes.

Iyer, who appeared poised to get the 3-figure rating, was out LBW after he missed a faster supply from Chahal, who shone with figures of 5/40. KKR ultimately fell wanting the whole by 7 runs, slipping to their third successive defeat in IPL 2022.