BCCI had recently postponed the 14th edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) until further notice only after 29 matches due to the COVID-19 outbreak within the bubble. But West Indies cricketer Nicholas Pooran witnessed a forgettable outing while playing for the Punjab Kings. The franchise persisted with him despite him failing almost in every game and had to drop him eventually to accommodate Dawid Malan in the line-up.
Pooran bagged four ducks in six innings apart from it, he registered scores being 9 and 19. Though he batted lower down the order at five or six, the southpaw had a chance of making an impact. But somehow, he could never manage to get going and struggled when the team needed him.
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Overall in his IPL career as well, Nicholas Pooran has managed to score 549 runs in 26 innings with a couple of half-centuries. Despite having phenomenal outings in T10 and other T20 leagues, he is yet to prove his worth in the IPL which is regarded as the best tournament in the world.
However, the 25-year-old isn’t discouraged with a poor show and has vowed to come back stronger than ever. Rather he has taken these scores to motivate himself and will keep working hard to make sure such scores don’t repeat themselves.
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In his tweet regarding the same, Nicholas Pooran wrote: “The suspension of the tournament and the reasons behind it are heart breaking, but neccessary. See you soon IPL! In the meantime I’ll be using this picture as my motivation to come back stronger than ever. Keep safe everyone,” Pooran wrote in his tweet which also included a pictures of his scores in IPL 2021.
The suspension of the tournament and the reasons behind it are heart breaking, but neccessary. See you soon IPL!
In the meantime I'll be using this picture as my motivation to come back stronger than ever. Keep safe everyone. pic.twitter.com/NS0SyliX5i
— NickyP (@nicholas_47) May 6, 2021
With India struggling due to the second wave of COVID-19, Nicholas Pooran was also one of the foreign cricketers to come forward and help the nation in its fight against the deadly second wave of the pandemic. Only a few days before IPL was suspended, the southpaw had revealed that he will be donating a portion of his salary to COVID relief funds while also urging others to donate in their own way during these tough times.
