IPL 2022: Rashid Khan opens up on how he became PERFECT FINISHER for Gujarat Titans – While criticism has mounted over spinner Rashid Khan’s inability to provide the sucker-punch with his bowling for his franchise Gujarat Titans in the current edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL), it can’t be denied that what he hasn’t been unable to achieve with his bowling, the 23-year-old is trying to do that with the bat this year. Follow IPL 2022 LIVE Updates with InsideSport.IN
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Rashid has played match-winning knocks for Gujarat against against Chennai Super Kings (40 off 21) and Sunrisers Hyderabad (31 not out off 11) under pressure situations.
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However, the premier leg-spinner has picked only eight wickets in eight matches with an economy of 7.09 for the Hardik Pandya-led Gujara in the ongoing season .
“I have those skills and talent but it was just about the confidence in myself, that I could finish. The best thing is I get more opportunity here in this team to bat.”
Facing his former franchise Hyderabad, Rashid showed how devastating his batting could be, slamming an unbeaten 31 off just 11 balls as Gujarat completed an improbable chase of 195 to halt Hyderabad’s winning run.
IPL 2022: Rashid Khan opens up on how he became PERFECT FINISHER for Gujarat Titans – Check OUT
Rashid walked in with the Titans 140/5 in 16 overs, all five wickets falling to Umran Malik’s pace. There were 56 runs needed from the last four overs, but in Rashid and Rahul Tewatia, Gujarat had two men familiar with conjuring victories out of nothing. Rashid finished it off with three sixes in four balls, the last two coming off the final two balls when nine were needed for victory.
There was a hint of MS Dhoni’s helicopter, and a bit of a hockey player’s drag-flick, but the end product was all Rashid. “The snake shot” is what he calls it, because of the way the wrists uncoil and strike.
But his four overs leaked 45 runs, which is Rashid’s third-worst figures in IPL.
On his mediocre bowling, the spinner said, “I think I didn’t bowl as well as I should have. I bowled four-five bad deliveries and was punished and that is something I had in my mind. On a wicket like this, you can’t miss your line and length, and that is something I have done.”
IPL 2022: Rashid Khan opens up on how he became PERFECT FINISHER for Gujarat Titans – Check OUT
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