In IPL season-18 the soft match played between Punjab Kings and the defending champions Kolkata Knight Riders occurred on Tuesday evening. The team accomplished a historic football victory in their lost match. The KKR all-round cricket player Sunil Narine faced controversy during the same match through a distinct cheating incident.
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The umpire caught Narine cheating
Bat checking of cricketers’ bats has turned into a standard procedure during IPL 2025. KKR started their innings against Punjab Kings by sending opening batsmen Sunil Narine to the pitch together with Quinton de Kock. An umpire grew suspicious about the wide dimensions of Narine’s bat which prompted him to conduct bat measurement procedures on Sunil Narine. A basic inspection took place before the match kicked off and it revealed that Narine’s bat exceeded the accepted guidelines.
Glad Narine is getting pulled up at least while batting. pic.twitter.com/GziclyTc1x
---Advertisement---— Sunil (@Hitting_Middle) April 16, 2025
Sunil Narine got warning
The rules of ICC’s International Cricket Matches apply to all IPL matches except for the ones that establish ‘Impact Player’. The rule specifies established measurements for bat dimensions, including length-width and gauge depth. The standards approved by the authorities showed that Sunil Narine’s bat did not align with the established specifications. The umpires enforced the rules to deny Narine permission to use his controversial bat. A warning accompanied the incident along with a viral spread of the video footage.
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Narine dismissed with a score of five runs.
During the match against CSK, Sunil Narine finished his bat stroke with 44 valuable runs. The pitch exhibited friendly conditions for batting at Punjab, forcing many to anticipate a strong performance from him. The match performance of Narine proved disappointing as he accumulated 5 runs before dismissal, thus making KKR unable to reach the simple target of 112 runs. Sunil Narine previously completed a successful effort by taking two wickets before his dismissal.
