IPL 2026: Jacob Duffy took 3 wickets in his debut match, achieved this feat

Updated: 28-03-2026, 09.02 PM

What is the news?

In the first match of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2026, Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) fast bowler Jacob Duffy bowled brilliantly and took 3 wickets. This was his first match in this league and this New Zealand player made his debut brilliantly. Jos Hazlewood is not playing the opening matches for RCB due to injury. In such a situation, Duffy was sure to get a chance in the playing eleven.

Duffy’s bowling was like this

Duffy bowled 4 overs and took 3 wickets for 22 runs. His economy rate was 5.50. This player made Travis Head (11), Abhishek Sharma (7) and Nitish Reddy (1) his victims. Due to Duffy’s brilliant bowling, at one time SRH’s 3 batsmen were in the pavilion for just 29 runs in 4.2 overs. However, after this Ishan Kishan and Heinrich Klaasen took over the innings of SRH.

Duffy dismissed Head for the third time

Duffy dismissed Head for the third time in T-20 cricket. Apart from them, Arshdeep Singh and Fawad Ahmed have also sent Head to the pavilion thrice. Duffy did this in 4 innings. Arshdeep has dismissed Head 3 times in 7 innings and Fawad has dismissed Head 3 times in 8 innings. In T-20, Duffy has taken 192 wickets in 169 matches at an average of 24.85. He has taken 4 wickets 7 times and 5 wickets 2 times.