![]() ![]() Rajasthan Royals Squad: Jos Buttler, Devdutt Padikkal, Sanju Samson(w/c), Rassie van der Dussen, Shimron Hetmyer, Ravichandran Ashwin, Riyan Parag, Trent Boult, Kuldeep Sen, Prasidh Krishna, Yuzvendra Chahal, James Neesham, Navdeep Saini, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Karun Nair, KC Cariappa, Daryl Mitchell, Obed McCoy, Tejas Baroka, Kuldip Yadav, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Anunay Singh, Dhruv Jurel, Shubham Garhwal IPL 2022, RR vs GT Highlights: Here are the two squads Parag, understandably, was overjoyed and looked approvingly at Ashwin, who reciprocated with a happy nod and a pat on Parag's shoulders. He went through with the shot and, fatally, mistimed it. Gill was so committed to the stroke that he could not make any late adjustments. But the ball, a bit slower than his stock ball, held the line after pitching. Gill, the moment he saw that the ball was tossed up, decided to send it to the upper tiers. Maybe, Parag was laying the charm offensive. Parag’s first three balls were utter tripe-a full wide ball outside the off-stump that Hardik Pandya swooshed for a six down the ground with just a crisp swing of the bat, the second was full on his pads that he somehow managed to not hit the boundary and the fourth was a delicious half-tracker that Gill flicked imperiously for a four. Not just Ravi Ashwin, Riyan Parag too could bowl the carrom ball. The back foot was in the air but it comes down on time. A stumping appeal and the replay shows there is no bat involved. Manohar takes a step forward and looks to push it to covers but misses and the keeper clips the bails off in a flash. NOT OUT! Abhinav Manohar did not read that all! This was a carrom ball, on a length and outside off. And every time he struck a boundary, the same epithet flashed: “Killer Miller.” Maybe, by the end of the 14-ball 31, a strike rate of 221, the nostalgia those words brought might have turned warmer. They packed the leg-side to deny fours, it did not matter as the balls guillotined through the grass. Accompanying the six were five boundaries-each flat and powerful, fleecing the ground towards the fence. But suddenly, he looks like he has rediscovered the freedom of the game as well as the sweet spot of his bat. In 2015, he struck 21 sixes, in the next six editions combined he just managed 22. Thereafter, both his appearances and six-hitting prowess became sporadic. Long gone were those days, as Miller suddenly lost his knack of finding the sweetest spot of his bat. The summers of 13 and 14, when he plundered 417 and 446 runs at a strike rate of 165 and 150. Yet, there must have been some suffocating nostalgia, a reminder of his powerful heyday, when he was considered among the cleanest hitters of fast bowling in the world. “Killer Miller” after he had smoked Kuldeep Sen down the ground for a trademark six. Was Cummins watching?Įven David Miller would have felt a wave of ennui splashing his mind when he saw that used-to-death epithet flash on the electronic scorecard. Clang, went the stumps and Ferguson let a roar of ‘c’mon’. Buttler tried to slow his bat-speed, and jam it down in time to keep it out but missed. ![]() But the beauty behind the Buttler ball was how full it was: a dipping yorker that landed on the base of off and middle stump. Ferguson goes the other way, fingers coming off the ball. Usually, the right-hand fast bowlers do the door-knob turn clockwise for the slower ones. He had just been ramped over fine-leg for a six off a 148 mph delivery and he decided to slip in his slower one. The answer was evident tonight when he took out a rampaging Jos Buttler to turn the game on its head. I am certainly not!” There is perhaps a reason Cummins asked Ferguson that. ‘How do you bowl your slower ball?’ Ferguson recalled telling him, “Jesus! You are the No.1 Test bowler in the world. jersey fame, was playing in the KKR team, he was once startled by a query from Pat Cummins. When Lockie Ferguson, of black shoes and 69 no. ![]()
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