Mumbai (India), : Sunrisers Hyderabad opener Travis Head’s knocks in the match against Royal Challengers Bangalore were “brilliant” and nobody could bowl a yorker against him, hailed former India pacer RP Singh.
RCB bowlers conceded 287 runs and took only three wickets against SRH. SRH posted the highest total in IPL history and broke their own record of 277 runs against Mumbai Indians thanks to some serious knocks by Travis Head and Heinrich Klaasen. Although the fiery batting of captain Faf du Plessis, Virat Kohli and Dinesh Karthik helped RCB fight back and end with 262/7 on the board, RCB will likely remember the match mostly for the wrong reasons.
RP, who is also an IPL veteran told GeoCinema, “He hit some magnificent shots tonight; there was no area of the field where he did not hit the ball. It was an explosive innings. He started with boundaries and then accelerated to sixes. After a phase, any bowler can execute a yorker? Throughout the match.”
The former Indian bowler said that Klaasen, who scored 66 runs during the match, has started playing spin; He plays fast bowling. RP appreciated how Klassen sent the yorker length misses out of the park.
“He always played pace bowling well but now he is playing spin bowling equally well. A yorker length, especially balls that miss the stumps is almost guaranteed to fly out of the stadium; he doesn’t let them stay on the field. If you feel you can’t execute a yorker to the stumps, you should refrain from using it. , because every time he failed to execute it, the wrong word was removed from every shot he hit, level two tonight,” the former speedster said.
Coming into the match, RCB put the SRH team into bat first. SRH were pushed to 287/3 in their 20 overs with the help of Travis Head’s century and Heinrich Klaasen’s explosive half-century.
Lockie Ferguson was the pick of the RCB bowlers with 2/52 in four overs.
In the run chase, Virat Kohli and captain Faf du Plessis put on an 80-run stand inside the Powerplay, unfazed by the scoring rate and target. But a brilliant spell by captain Pat Cummins and Mayank Markande reduced RCB to 122/5. Despite that Dinesh Karthik and Anuj Rawat put up a fight but ended up 262/7 25 runs short.
With this loss, RCB are at the bottom of the points table with just one win from seven overs. They have just two points. SRH now have four wins and two losses with eight points. He is in fourth place.
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