Rashid Khan is undergoing a regular IPL this year with the ball in terms of wickets, but the Gujarat Titans spinner needn’t worry about the stats as long as he can produce economic spells for his team. Rashid has claimed 11 wickets from as many games against an economy of 6.84 so far, numbers he’s certainly not going to like.
But the star Afghan cricketer has been following it closely.
“When bowling in T20s it’s always great to take wickets, but for me it’s a little different because I always focus on economics and that’s something that puts pressure on the batters,” Rashid said at the virtual press conference after the match. GT competition. run loss to Mumbai Indians on Friday.
“But compared to other IPLs I’ve gotten fewer wickets this year. In a few games I haven’t bowled as well as I should have. But that’s T20, there’s so much you can learn.” Rashid played a good game against MI taking 2 for 24 in addition to collecting three catches.
But it wasn’t GT’s day as with nine runs in the final they couldn’t finish the chase.
“Hardik and (Rahul) Tewatia’s run-outs were the game changers. That’s the beauty of T20, sometimes you can score 9 on 2 balls and sometimes you fail to score 9 on 6 balls,” Rashid said.
“There is a lot to learn, not to repeat the negative things we have done in recent games.” MI pacer Daniel Sams, who defended nine runs in the last over, said he was just trying to throw his best balls.
“I wanted to throw my best balls in the last overs, change the length a little bit, keep the ball away and bowl nice and slow and got a little dip.
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“For me it was a good time to think about my performance, what I’m doing really well and execute it on the ground,” said Sams, finishing with numbers of 0/18 from his three overs.
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