Legendary India batter Sachin Tendulkar lauded the good batting efforts displayed by David Miller and Rashid Khan in main Gujarat Titans to a three-wicket win over Chennai Super Kings at Pune on Sunday.
Miller, who led the chase with an unbeaten 94 off 51 balls, shared a match-winning partnership of 70 off simply 37 balls with Khan, who dished out a 21-ball 40 cameo to show the match in Gujarat’s favour. The win implies that Gujarat, who entered the match in absence of standard captain Hardik Pandya and had been in spots of hassle at 16/3 and 87/5, maintained their high spot within the factors desk.
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“The way Miller was clearly striking the ball; he even held the bat a bit higher. He has a different grip and a clean bat swing. If Miller’s good phase continues, then he’s a very dangerous player, which he showed today. When a batter is slogging, he will only hit hard towards mid-wicket. But if you see, Miller plays good shots through the covers, which means the batter is in full control,” stated Tendulkar on his official YouTube channel.
Giving Miller the required help from the opposite finish was stand-in captain Khan, who was at eight off 12 balls earlier than smacking Chris Jordan for 3 sixes and a 4 on first 4 balls of the 18th over to show the match in Gujarat’s favour.
“Rashid wasn’t too far behind. If a batter is playing well, he needs support from the other end as well. Rashid played a fantastic role as he batted with a strike rate of 200. And in the 18th over, he scored 25 runs of Chris Jordan’s bowling, which changed the momentum of the match,” noticed Tendulkar.
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Tendulkar, at present serving as mentor for Mumbai Indians, signed off by saying that Chennai all-rounder Shivam Dube might have gone for the complete assault to take Miller’s catch off Dwayne Bravo within the seventeenth over.
At that point, Miller was batting on 78 and had mistimed a pull shot. He didn’t get the elevation and one felt that Dube, at deep mid-wicket, might have taken the catch.
Dube went operating in however didn’t try for taking the catch, possibly because of dropping the sight of the ball because of crowd or floodlights within the stadium, leaving Bravo furious and captain Ravindra Jadeja threw his cap down in anger.
“Before that, there was a half-chance off Bravo by Miller when he hit it towards mid-wicket and Shivam Dube could have tried a bit harder. Overall, Gujarat played a fantastic game of cricket. Well done to Miller and Rashid.”
Gujarat’s subsequent match in IPL 2022 will likely be towards Kolkata Knight Riders on the DY Patil Stadium on Saturday, April 23.
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