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

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, prime of the order, improbable within the area, bowled three overs too. To get us to 180 off his bat, it was wonderful,” Cummins mentioned of Reddy, a batting all-rounder, who was named participant of the match.

Cummins mentioned it was an ideal sport of cricket and his aspect tried to stay optimistic.

“They bowled very well at the beginning, we did properly to get to 182 after which defended it. The fantastic thing about the influence participant is that you simply really feel you might have actually deep batting. We attempt to be optimistic, to take the sport on,” he mentioned.

“You get 150-160, you will 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 pleased (with our rating),” mentioned the Australia captain.

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

“We’ve loads of left-armers, right-armers, so simply attempting to present the bowlers the very 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 may end the sport. Hats off to them that they introduced it this shut.

“I really feel that we stored them to a great 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 need to change it in hindsight, he mentioned, “The wicket was not providing that a lot bounce so each particular person has to give you higher plans. As a result of we bought out…in fact we’d need to change our strokes.

“I really feel that on the finish, we dropped that catch on the final ball. We might have stopped 10-15 runs extra and that made a distinction as properly. 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 to do higher in sure areas and enhance.” Reddy mentioned he was pleased for the contribution he made to the workforce.

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

“The seamers have been bowling properly, so I didn’t need to take them on. When the spinners got here on, I needed to assault them and that’s what I did. The slower bouncer is admittedly working (by means of the event), so I simply needed to make use of the scale.

“I simply need to proceed this efficiency for my workforce, with the bat, with the ball and within the area. I simply need to be like this.” PTI PDS PDS AH AH

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