Umran Malik is racking up some critical popularity on the again of his tempo bowling and whereas it’s now a given undeniable fact that he’ll all probability stroll away with the quickest supply of the night time prize in each match he performs, even when a sure Lockie Ferguson is within the fray, as was the case on Wednesday when Sunrisers Hyderabad took on Gujarat Titans on the Wankhede Stadium. While Ferguson went for 52 runs in his 4 overs, together with an enormous 25-run closing over by which Shashank Singh hit the Kiwi pacer for 3 sixes, Malik had a day to recollect claiming his first-ever IPL five-for – the primary in IPL 2022 – returning 5/25.

However, his crew ended up on the shedding aspect by 5 wickets, however Malik walked away with the Player of the Match award for his superlative effort.

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Speaking after receiving his award, Malik stated his foremost focus is to bowl quick as he can and blend it with right here and there to maintain the batters guessing. “The idea was just to bowl as fast as I can. The ground is slightly on the smaller side so the idea is to stay on the stumps, mix the pace and try to keep the ball within the stumps.”

Malik has been on many events breached the 150 kmph barrier and on Wednesday night time his categorical tempo had Hardik Pandya in hassle and at 153 kmph, the well-set Wriddhiman Saha might do little in opposition to the yorker that got here his approach. But Malik believes he can crank up his tempo and on being requested if he’s intending to the touch 155 kmph, he stated, “God prepared if I’ve to bowl 155 kph, I’ll do it in the future. But in the intervening time, all I wish to do is bowl properly.”

Malik, who has been impressive throughout the season with his pace, has been on the radar of many cricket analysts who have been saving good things about the 22-year-old. In 8 matches Malik now has 15 wickets at 15.93 and more importantly, he is clocking 145 kmph on a consistent basis and the economy has also come down from over 10 at the start of the tournament to 7.97.

He had earlier beaten Shubman Gill for pace and then had David Miller and Abhinav Manohar bowled as well. He took the wicket of Pandya as well with a short delivery, but his superlative effort was trumped by Rashid Khan and Rahul Tewatia’s lower-order hitting.

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