Punjab Kings bowler wreaked havoc, took 7 wickets against Sri Lanka

South Africa vs Sri Lanka 1st Test: Marco Jansen has recently been bought by Punjab Kings. He was sold for Rs 7 crore in the mega auction of IPL 2025. Johnson is a lethal bowler of South Africa. He has done wonders right after the auction. Jansen took 7 wickets in the first innings of the ongoing match between South Africa and Sri Lanka in Durban. Sri Lanka surrendered before his lethal bowling.

South Africa had scored 191 runs till all out in the first innings. In response to this, the Sri Lankan team came on the field for batting. The Sri Lankan team, captained by Dhananjaya de Silva, collapsed on the score of just 42 runs in the first innings. During this, Marco Johnson bowled lethally. He gave only 13 runs in 6.5 overs and took 7 wickets. He also took 1 maiden over.

Johnson sold for many times more than the base price –

In the IPL 2025 mega auction, Johnson got many times more than the base price. His base price was Rs 1.25 crore. But Punjab bought him for Rs 7 crore. The first bid on Johnson was made by Mumbai Indians. After this Punjab also joined the race. Mumbai made the last bid of Rs 2.40 crore. After this Gujarat Titans entered the bid. Gujarat made the last bid of Rs 6.75 crore. After this Punjab won.

The performance in IPL has been like this –

Marco Johnson was a part of Sunrisers Hyderabad last season. He has played 21 matches in IPL so far. During this period 20 wickets have been taken. His best performance in a match has been taking 3 wickets for 25 runs.

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Big Jansen making a 𝐌◆𝐫𝐜 against 🇱🇰.#MarcoJansen #SAvsSL #PunjabKings pic.twitter.com/5Xu2nht6zF

— Punjab Kings (@PunjabKingsIPL) November 28, 2024

Jansen on song!🎵

Marco meant business, and took NO prisoners as he bull-dozed the Sri Lanka batters to get career-best Test Match figures of 7/13😃🏼🇿🇦

An absolute dominant display, one for the history books.📖🏏#WozaNawe #BePartOfIt #SAvSL pic.twitter.com/OWrXUKX0lO

— Proteas Men (@ProteasMenCSA) November 28, 2024

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