Gujarat Titans’ David Miller, who had a successful season in IPL 2022, said he has matured as a player and understands how to deal with failure. Miller scored 449 runs in 15 innings at an average of 64.14 with a strike rate of 141.19 in this IPL season, breaking his own record of 446 runs when he played for Kings XI Punjab (now Punjab Kings) in 2014 played. the list of leading go-getters this season – the second most for Titans behind captain Hardik Pandya.
“As you get older and play more cricket you mature as a player and you understand how to deal with failure and what works for you as a player. All of these come with experience and I’ve been in the IPL for 12 years and 14 years in professional cricket. So I should know my game by now and I feel like I’m in a place where I enjoy taking on certain roles and challenges and enjoy being part of this successful team” , ESPNcricinfo quoted Miller.
The South African also stated that his success against spin in this season of IPL is due to his changed mindset and hard work.
“I never really felt like a player who struggled with spin, but it’s an area I needed to improve on and over the last three to four years I’ve changed the way I think about spin,” he said.
Miller said he wasn’t much supported after IPL’s bad 2016 season.
“The last four to five years in the IPL – I had a bad season in 2016 – and since then I have not felt supported at all. It is the nature of the IPL in the sense that there are many foreign players and only four games. So very understandable for teams to think that way,” he said.
“I had to go back and work on my game and try to find a way to continue. Although I felt good playing for South Africa, the domestic teams in South Africa, but it’s about finding the gap between opportunities in a team and that’s what happened this season.”
Miller noted that Gujarat Titans had really supported him as a player and that is one of the reasons for this successful season of IPL 2022.
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“I’ve been supported all the time by playing all the games and it allows you as a player to settle in and really not worry about selection, more so winning games,” he said.
Debutants Gujarat Titans will face the inaugural champions Rajasthan Royals in the final on Sunday.
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