On Tuesday, the young wicket-keeper batsman, Ishan Kishan seems to have got his form back as he played a dominating unbeaten knock of 25-ball 50 which helped the Mumbai Indians (MI) to win the game against Rajasthan Royals (RR) by 8 wickets and more than 11 overs to spare. MI chased down the meager score of 91 runs in 8.2 overs as Ishan smacked 3 sixes and 5 boundaries.
With Mumbai Indians needing a big win to boost their Net Run Rate to help them to stand a chance to qualify for the play-offs, Rohit and Ishan Kishan walked out to open. Ishan Kishan failed to do score runs for his first 6 deliveries, but he managed to score a fifty in just 25 balls as he hit the winning runs with a six.
Speaking about his time away from the Mumbai XI, Ishan Kishan said conversations with Virat Kohli, Hardik Pandya, and Kieron Pollard helped him regain his confidence. He explained, “It’s nice to be back opening and getting runs for the team and helping win by a big margin. Feeling really good was much needed for our team to get momentum.”
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He further added, “I feel ups and downs are a big part of any sportsman. I was also not in good shape. Most of the batters were not getting runs like in previous seasons. We had great support staff and our captain.”
It seems that Ishan Kishan managed to improve by remembering the good days as he revealed that he had with senior players helped him revisit his knocks from IPL 2020, which in turn aided in him regaining confidence.
Recalling the same, Ishan Kishan said, “In fact, I had a chat with Virat bhai, Hardik bhai.. everyone was there to support me. I had a chat with KP who said you just need to keep things simple, bat the way you used to do, just watch the videos of what you did in the last season. I watched a few videos of my batting and that gave me a bit of confidence.”
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With the big win over RR, MI jumped to the 5th spot on the points table. They will be locking horns with Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) on Friday with their play-offs hopes hanging in the balance.
