Nicholas Pooran doesn’t like to complicate matters Before IPL 2020, when ESPNcricinfo asked him which team he was looking forward to playing the most, his response was: “All” When asked which bowler he was the most excited to face, he replied: « Everyone »
The same can be said of his stick In a 360-degree world, Pooran relies on workouts and pull-ups to score the majority of his runs As drummers are busy slogging right, left and center , he reveled in playing good cricket shots Tuesday was just another example
Despite Shikhar Dhawan’s second in a row, the Punjab Kings XI had limited the Delhi Capitals to 164 for 5 It wasn’t a big goal but the Kings XI lost KL Rahul early on As Chris Gayle changed the gives with a 26 points, it is Pooran who crushed the Capitals
After Gayle’s attack, the Capitals had managed to restore momentum in the all following, which saw Gayle’s back and Mayank Agarwal R Ashwin played Gayle with a slider as the drummer slogged across the line, but Pooran led him to the first ball of the coverage limit Although it was a more complete delivery, Pooran’s selection of shots also made a big difference
Comes the middle over, the phase during which Pooran was the most destructive batsman of this IPL In overs 7 to 15, his 230 points are only Rahul’s 241 But while Rahul’s runs hit a 13,388 hit rate, Pooran crushed them to 18,253 Of those with at least 50 runs in that span, none have scored faster
But before Pooran started there was some nervousness, not in the selection of moves but in the race between the wickets One of these mistakes had already resulted in Agarwal exhaustion In the eighth, it could have been also curtains for Pooran when he tried to fall and run to be fired by Glenn Maxwell Shreyas Iyer’s unbalanced throw was a bit wide from Pant who failed to get it across the stumps and Pooran was saved
If Pooran had been exhausted, the Kings XI would have been 70 for 4 in the eighth with little sticking ahead.In this scenario, according to ESPNcricinfo’s luck rating, the Capitals would have won the game
What followed instead was a period of such clean shots that Sachin Tendulkar tweeted in praise After being 11 of 10 balls, Pooran scored 42 balls out of the next 19 Tushar Deshpande bowled and s ‘gets hit on a deep square leg Marcus Stoinis tried the length and was thrown a long time In six balls, tight by those two hits, Pooran hit two sixes and three fours to tip the game decisively in favor Kings XI
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Halfway through the Kings XI only needed 64 balls out of 60 balls with seven wickets in hand Pooran and Maxwell added 69 balls in 40 balls with the latter contributing just 16 out of 15, and by the time Pooran came out, the equation had come down again to 40 on 45 balls, which the Kings XI achieved with one more
Pooran did all of this by playing shots straight from the MCC’s training manual In his 28-ball 53, ESPNcricinfo recorded eight cover discs, earning him 14 points in The Most Productive Single Shot was the draw, giving 16 tries in three attempts The innings, where he scored at a nearly 190 hit rate, had no reverse sweeps, no scoops, no ramps and just a slog
After the match, when Maxwell asked Pooran about his shot on iplt20com, Pooran’s response was: « My innings were simple If the ball was in my zone I tried to hit it as clean as possible »
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During the post-game presentation, he told host broadcaster Star: « I’m a naturally aggressive player I play on merit If it’s in my zone I hit it As easy as that If it ‘is a match, it’s a match « Asked about the confusion during the race between the wickets, he replied: » One of those nights, one of those nights It was hard Bad communication Easy «
These answers may sound simplistic, but Pooran is aware of what he has done well and what he needs to improve
« I worked really hard, » he said in the post-match presentation. « I hit the ball pretty well I started but was unable to convert them into big scores Even tonight I made a start but I couldn’t finish the match for the team It’s disappointing for me «
Prior to Tuesday, Pooran had only threatened without dealing much damage to him, but if he can continue to improve as he has been, it won’t be long before oppositions start seeing him as a threat. real
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