KKR Sunil Narine Story: Father was a taxi driver and named his son after the great Gavaskar

Sunil Narine scored the first century of his career in IPL 2024. Narine, who plays as a mystery spinner, is showing a different class of batting in the current season of IPL. In the match played against Rajasthan Royals in the tournament, Narine scored 109 runs in 56 balls with the help of 13 fours and 6 sixes. Narine has been a part of KKR for a long time.

But do you know that Narine's father named him after former Indian batsman Sunil Gavaskar. His father Shahid Narine was a big fan of the legendary Gavaskar. Narine was born on May 26, 1988 in Arima, Trinidad and Tobago.

Naren's father was a taxi driver for a restaurant. Father Shadid recognized the cricket hidden in Naren when he was just 7 years old and started giving him cricket training. Even after his son became a cricketer, the father did not leave the job of driving a taxi.

At present, Sunin Narine is the superstar of the cricket world. While playing for West Indies, Narine made his mark as a spinner.

But while playing in Kolkata Knight Riders, Narine got a new identity as a batsman. Narine bats opening for KKR.

Let us tell you that Narine has played 168 matches in IPL so far. Bowling in 167 innings of these matches, he has taken 170 wickets at an average of 25.69. Apart from this, while batting in 102 innings, Narine has scored 1322 runs at an excellent strike rate of 164.84.