Shimron Hetmyer was getting ready to finish the game off for RR, but the left-hander smashed Avesh straight to Shardul Thakur in the 20th over to hand the momentum back to LSG.
“As soon as he shuffled away from the stumps, I thought that I would bowl a yorker on the stumps. There was only one fielder and his shot went into his hand. So, while running, I decided that if the batsman shuffles a lot, then I try to bowl in front of him.”
“So that if he misses, he is out. As you must have seen, the same thing happened with Yashasvi (Jaiswal) and Riyan (Parag). You miss, I hit.”
The 28-year-old said the wickets of Jaiswal and Parag in the 18th over gave LSG a massive advantage because it brought together two new batters in the middle in the death overs.
“If a new batsman comes, it is not that easy for him. For a set batsman, you must have seen that the game is easy. For a new batsman, to come in any situation, especially when the ball is keeping a little low is tough. As soon as Yashasvi’s wicket happened, we knew we can squeeze Rajasthan if bowl 2-3 dot balls.”
“In the same over, Riyan was also out. So, we got a chance to bowl at two new batsmen. They needed 20 more runs and that’s a big target in that situation.” The Madhya Pradesh pacer said he was a bit tense when David Miller spilled the catch of Shubham Dubey.
