After Indian skipper Virat Kohli missed the opportunity to play for Surrey in the county cricket, the English cricketer, Sam Curran is now looking forward to the challenge of bowling at the run-machine as the two teams will lock horns in the opening T20I at Old Trafford on Tuesday. Handed Test and ODI debuts recently, Curran has got a chance of completing the hat-trick if picked in the playing XI in the series opener.

As quoted in Cricinfo, Curran said, “I was pretty excited when he was meant to be my team-mate at Surrey and I was expecting to be laughing at the other county bowlers. Now if I get the chance it’ll be my chance to get taken down! It’ll be fun. You want to play against these big names and test yourself, find out where you need to improve. All the Surrey boys were gutted he didn’t come because we were expecting some big crowds and learning the way he trains, apparently he’s a freak in the gym, so it would have been special to work with him.”

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Sam agrees with the fact that Virat is indeed a special player and even compared him to the in-form English batting line-up at present. he said that he is looking to bowl at Virat the way other teams look to bowl to the current English batting line-up. He said that he the hosts are playing special cricket, especially on these wickets.

Talking of his own journey from county to international cricket, Curran said: “It’s been a pretty special couple of weeks. Wouldn’t have thought it at the start of the summer, though I’d just deal with my Surrey stuff that’s how things go, you just get on a roll and ride the rollercoaster and just try to enjoy it. Watching Jimmy (James Anderson) and Broad (Stuart Broad) on the sofa and then next thing I know I’m stood at mid-on watching while they are steaming in. It’s pretty surreal. I won’t forget it.”