The 27-year-old left his skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni sad by bowling 4 wides and three no-balls within the dying overs in opposition to Lucknow Super Giants of their second Indian Premier League 2023 match on Monday.
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Although the pacer took two wickets, Dhoni ended up warning his CSK bowlers in opposition to bowling additional deliveries after the match.
“Bowling in the death is not an easy skill,” he instructed reporters after CSK’s win.
“I am still learning, we have a great death bowler as our bowling coach DJ Bravo and I am just trying to pick his brains. My role is quite similar to what Bravo has done over the years for CSK. I can’t fill his shoes but I am trying to learn slog-overs bowling skills from him,” the Mumbai bowler added.
Deshpande mentioned he was bettering each day and rising as a bowler.
“I think getting a chance (to play) or not is not in my hands. But what is in my hand is to make an effort and keep on improving day by day, so I was focusing on that, and I feel personally when I keep on growing as a bowler, the opportunities will keep coming, and I just need to grab it with a cool mind,” he added.
Deshpande, who bowled the ultimate over of the match, mentioned, “I am a firm believer in the present; what’s gone is gone. Bowling no-balls is a crime in T20 cricket but if I keep cribbing about it, I might have given away 10 extra runs and the results might have gone either way.
“So I used to be simply centered on making a great comeback. I saved telling myself you could win the sport for the staff.”
He said he was blown away by the atmosphere at the MA Chidambaram Stadium. “I could not hear something. It was actually very loud, it was distinctive. I (had) simply heard about Chepauk and immediately I had skilled it,” he added.
LSG’s Morne Morkel backs Mark Wood
LSG bowling coach Morne Morkel said English pacer Mark Wood, who was taken apart in Monday’s match after a five-wicket haul against Delhi Capitals, was still finding his feet in the sub-continent, especially in the IPL where the margins are close.
“There’s rather a lot to love about Mark Wood’s bowling. He is operating in. He is bowling within the 150s. He is bowling that aggressive size. He is a strike bowler for us,” he told reporters.
“For me, it’s important to take a seat with him and work out what we’re going to count on from sure surfaces. It is barely his third sport within the IPL. In his first sport (a few years in the past), he performed for Chennai. I feel it was fairly costly, then he performed within the earlier evening in opposition to Delhi Capitals in Lucknow and took a unbelievable five-for, so he’s nonetheless discovering his toes within the sub-continent, particularly within the IPL the place the margins are robust,” South African pacer Morkel instructed reporters.
He additional mentioned, “For me it is simply speaking by way of totally different intervals the place he (Wood) is presumably going to bowl in, ensuring he’s clear together with his plans, however one factor about Woody is that he has received a World Cup, he has bought plenty of expertise he has performed for years with the England staff, and he is aware of that there isn’t any recipe for achievement.
“My advice to him so far is ‘don’t overthink about playing in the IPL’. He is picked for a reason.”
Morkel mentioned a few dismissals on the mistaken time value them the match in opposition to CSK.
“Close games, small margins…Krunal Pandya, Nicholas Pooran and Kyle Mayers all caught on the fence. That’s three big hits, it could have been a different story,” he added.
Morkel lauded Mayers, who has scored back-to-back fifties within the event however mentioned it will be a variety dilemma with Quinton de Kock becoming a member of the staff earlier than the subsequent match.
(With inputs from PTI)
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com