STATS CORNER: Rinku Singh’s T20I strike rate is 287.83 in 19th & 20th overs, and that is why he is India’s must-have finisher | Cricket News
A tinge of foreboding was beginning to wrap around New Zealand when Rinku Singh walked out of the crease and belted Daryl Mitchell’s first ball in the 20th over for a six down the ground. The following ball went sailing over mid-wicket, and Rinku’s world had suddenly teleported back to April 2023. Curiously, since that epic IPL heist for Kolkata Knight Riders against Gujarat Titans in Ahmedabad, where he clubbed five consecutive sixes to clinch a 20th over thriller, Rinku’s T20 career has yet to realise a riff, an encore that would truly stamp his hallmark as a finisher. He relished his best-ever IPL season that year with 474 runs at 149.52. He would oddly face only 247 balls for KKR in the next two seasons, an average of eight balls per outing. That could partly be blamed for Rinku’s selection merely as a reserve for the 2024 T20 World Cup and his conspicuous absence in India’s most recent T20I assignments after the Asia Cup in September till December 2025. Rinku did not biff five …







