Evening contests in India are heavily influenced by dew. The IPL has not been an exception, with teams choosing to bat second and leaving the bowlers to manage the additional difficulty of controlling the wet ball.
Punjab Kings bowlers were having trouble keeping the ball under control on Wednesday at the Barsapara Cricket Stadium in Guwahati as the Rajasthan Royals threatened to hunt down 198. However, PBKS would manage to triumph by a slim margin of five runs.
IPL 2023 Points Table: View Club Standings, Team Points, Wins, Losses, and Orange Cap, Purple Cap. With 16 runs to defend off six deliveries, and the likes of a well-set Shimron Hetmyer and Dhruv Jurel in the middle, PBKS captain Shikhar Dhawan handed over the ball to Sam Curran, the costliest buy in IPL history.
Curran, who stocks skyrocketed following a player-of-the-tournament performance at the T20 World Cup last year, aced the test by allowing 10 runs off the over.
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“I think when it comes to those situations, you know if you nail your yorker, you’ll be okay. Some days it works and some days it won’t but luckily it was our day,” said Curran.
Curran though was unimpressed with the fact that his team couldn’t change the ball even though it felt like soap while pointing out how RR got their ball changed.
“I was trying to get our ball changed because it was like soap. I don’t really understand why they got their ball changed but we can’t do anything about it,” said Curran.
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“It’s amazingly hard. You try to train by dipping balls in water. It’s incredibly hard to hold the seam. You try to bowl cross seam but it’s not a natural ball to bowl a yorker cross seam. It’s extremely tough but everyone has to do it so there’s no real complaining,” he added.