To Get Us To 180 Off His Bat, It Was Wonderful: Cummins On Nitish Reddy’s Present

Mullanpur, Apr 9: Sunrisers Hyderabad captain Pat Cummins was all reward for younger Nitish Reddy whose all-round present helped their aspect beat Punjab Kings by two runs within the Indian Premier League right here on Tuesday.

The 20-year-old Reddy made 64 off 37 balls to take SRH to 182 for 9 after they have been requested to bat and chipped in with one wicket from his three overs to play a key position within the win.

“He was superior, high of the order, implausible within the discipline, bowled three overs too. To get us to 180 off his bat, it was wonderful,” Cummins stated of Reddy, a batting all-rounder, who was named participant of the match.

Cummins stated it was an important sport of cricket and his aspect tried to stay optimistic.

“They bowled rather well initially, we did nicely to get to 182 after which defended it. The fantastic thing about the impression participant is that you just really feel you’ve actually deep batting. We attempt to be optimistic, to take the sport on,” he stated.

“You get 150-160, you’ll lose 9 out of ten video games anyway. We knew the brand new ball was going to be a key time. We have been fairly completely satisfied (with our rating),” stated the Australia captain.

Requested about his aspect’s plan whereas defending the entire of 182, he stated, “Noticed what occurred with the brand new ball for them, so thought if me and Bhuvi may begin off with a wicket or wickets (it will be good).

“We’ve got loads of left-armers, right-armers, so simply attempting to provide the bowlers one of the best likelihood of success.” Punjab Kings captain Shikhar Dhawan praised Shashank Singh (46 not out) and Ashutosh Sharma (33 not out) for his or her knocks.

“It’s nice to see these children coming in and chipping in. There was all the time the hope that they might end the sport. Hats off to them that they introduced it this shut.

“I really feel that we saved them to a superb whole. Sadly, we couldn’t money in on the primary six overs and that’s the place we misplaced the sport. That pinched us laborious.” On their shot choice and if they might wish to change it in hindsight, he stated, “The wicket was not providing that a lot bounce so each particular person has to provide you with higher plans. As a result of we bought out…in fact we might wish to change our strokes.

“I really feel that on the finish, we dropped that catch on the final ball. We may have stopped 10-15 runs extra and that made a distinction as nicely. As a batting unit, we didn’t carry out. It will be significant for the highest order to carry out.

“We’re going to bounce again from this loss. We’ve got to do higher in sure areas and enhance.” Reddy stated he was completely satisfied for the contribution he made to the group.

“I’ve been speaking to myself that I’ve to consider in myself and that I’ve to be there (for my group).

“The seamers have been bowling nicely, so I didn’t wish to take them on. When the spinners got here on, I wished to assault them and that’s what I did. The slower bouncer is de facto working (by the match), so I simply wished to make use of the scale.

“I simply wish to proceed this efficiency for my group, with the bat, with the ball and within the discipline. I simply wish to be like this.” PTI PDS PDS AH AH

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