Lasith Malinga archives this unique milestone against Chennai Super Kings
Lasith Malinga archives this unique milestone against Chennai Super Kings
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Rohit Sharma-led  Mumbai Indians (MI) defeated Chennai Super Kings (CSK) by 46 runs at the Chepauk Stadium. Paser Lasith Malinga was yet again instrumental in his side's victory as he played a crucial role with the ball, running through the CSK lower order to pick a four-wicket. With this the Srialankan pacer achieved a unique milestone in Indian Premier League (IPL).

Malinga created the record for most wickets against a particular team in the IPL. He now has total 30 wickets against CSK in IPL and stands above Indian pacer Umesh Yadav, who has 29 wickets to his name against Kings XI Punjab. CSK all-rounder Dwayne Bravo is third on the list with 28 wickets under his belt against Mumbai Indians. 

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Malinga is the all-time leading wicket-taker in the Indian Premier League with 166 wickets in 117 matches at an average of 19.06 and a brilliant economy of 19.06. Amit Mishra (150) and Piyush Chawla (149) are the second and the third all-time highest wicket-taker in IPL respectively. 

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Malinga has had a great season so far for Mumbai Indians and once again starred in his side's win. He picked up the important wicket of opener Shane Watson in the very first over of CSK's innings before dismissing Dwayne Bravo, Mitchell Santner and Harbhajan Singh as CSK were bundled out for 109/10 in response to Mumbai's total of 155/4. 

 

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