SunRisers Hyderabad (SRH) leg-spinner Rashid Khan revealed that he enjoys the challenge of bowling to the Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) Virat Kohli as it brings out the best in him. SRH will be locking horns with RCB in their opening match of IPL 2020 on September 21 at the Dubai International Stadium.
During a virtual press conference, talking about his batting, Rashid said, “I think I always have the thing in my mind, whenever there are three or four overs left in the innings, I think I can give the best performance with the bat. When you get such a positive response from the coach and captain, it is really good. I should not be thinking much about I can bat, I should just focus on what I can do in the entire match, I will try my best to do well for the team.”
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Talking about his battle with Virat Kohli in the upcoming match against RCB, as per the quotes in ANI, Rashid Khan said: ” Virat is a world-class player in all three formats, I love it when somebody like him is batting against me, it is the best competition and you want it as a bowler, I will enjoy bowling to him, it will be a proud moment bowling to him. As a bowler, I will try to bowl the best deliveries.”
The 22-year-old spinner also said that he has been working on a lot of new deliveries for the upcoming tournament and his focus would just be to remain consistent for the Hyderabad-based franchise.
Rashid elaborated, “I have been working hard, bringing new balls to a game would be hard for me. I need to be smarter compared to the last few years. Spinners will be key in this competition as it goes on, wickets might get better for the spinners as the tournament progresses, the grounds are bigger as well and that helps as a spinner. Sharjah is a small ground but the wicket would be good for the spinners.”
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The SRH spinner recently played for Barbados Tridents in the Caribbean Premier League (CPL) 2020 and he has to come to UAE from a bio-secure bubble. He also shared that he was quite impressed by the crowd noise technology used by the IPL organizers and the spinner said that it will help players to remain fresh in the middle.
