{"id":5688,"date":"2026-04-19T18:26:51","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T12:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/ipl-2026-jofra-archer-scripts-history-vs-kkr-becomes-only-second-bowler-to-cricket-news\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T18:26:51","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T12:56:51","slug":"ipl-2026-jofra-archer-scripts-history-vs-kkr-becomes-only-second-bowler-to-cricket-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/ipl-2026-jofra-archer-scripts-history-vs-kkr-becomes-only-second-bowler-to-cricket-news\/","title":{"rendered":"IPL 2026: Jofra Archer scripts history vs KKR, becomes only second bowler to&#8230; | Cricket News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-articlebody=\"1\"><video-embed value=\"false\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"ihgno clearfix  \">\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-130370358,imgsize-31130,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/mnb-40.jpg\" alt=\"IPL 2026: Jofra Archer scripts history vs KKR, becomes only second bowler to...\" title=\"Jofra Archer\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Jofra Archer struck with the first ball of the second innings to equal a record held by Mohammed Shami during <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/rajasthan-royals\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">Rajasthan Royals<\/a>\u2019 IPL 2026 match against Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) at Eden Gardens on Sunday.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"4\"\/>Opening the bowling for Rajasthan Royals, Archer bowled KKR opener Tim Seifert for a golden duck with the first delivery of KKR\u2019s innings. With this, Archer now has five wickets on the first ball of an IPL innings, matching Shami\u2019s record.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"6\"\/>He had also taken wickets on the opening ball in RR\u2019s previous two matches \u2014 against Royal Challengers Bengaluru on April 10 and Sunrisers Hyderabad on April 13 \u2014 dismissing Phil Salt and Abhishek Sharma respectively.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"10\"\/><span class=\"strong\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">Wickets off the first ball of an IPL innings (most):<\/span><span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"12\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"cdatainfo   id-r-component \" data-pos=\"13\">\n<ul>\n<li>5 \u2013 Mohammed Shami<\/li>\n<li>5 \u2013 Jofra Archer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"14\"\/>Earlier, after winning the toss, Rajasthan Royals chose to bat. Varun Chakravarthy and Sunil Narine combined to take five wickets and restricted RR to 155 for nine.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"16\"\/>It could have been worse for RR had KKR not conceded ground in the power play.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"18\"\/>Rajasthan made a strong start, reaching 63 without loss as Yashasvi Jaiswal and Vaibhav Sooryavanshi scored at over 10 runs per over against the pace attack.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"20\"\/>The match changed after spin was introduced. Sooryavanshi hit Narine for a six off his second ball, but Narine followed it with five dot deliveries. Chakravarthy then dismissed Sooryavanshi with his fourth ball, completing his 200th T20 wicket. The batter was caught by Ramandeep Singh at deep midwicket.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"22\"\/>Rajasthan Royals slipped from a strong position to 118 for four in 15 overs, with the run rate dropping below eight.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"24\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/sports\/cricket\/ipl\/ipl-2026\/ipl-2026-jofra-archer-scripts-history-vs-kkr-becomes-only-second-bowler-to-\/articleshow\/130370275.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jofra Archer struck with the first ball of the second innings to equal a record held by Mohammed Shami during Rajasthan Royals\u2019 IPL 2026 match against Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) at Eden Gardens on Sunday.Opening the bowling for Rajasthan Royals, Archer bowled KKR opener Tim Seifert for a golden duck with the first delivery of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5688","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}