IPL 2024 | Sandeep on bowling death overs: “You have to have a big heart”
Sandeep Sharma, a pacer for the Rajasthan Royals, said at the post-match press conference that bowling near the end of the game and trying to carry out your plans requires a lot of heart. Sandeep let up only 18 runs in the RR vs. Mumbai Indians IPL 2024 encounter, recording a fifer.
“Batters are hitting.500 this IPL season, and the impact player rule gives each team an additional batter, which makes for high-scoring games. After RR defeated MI by nine wickets, he observed, “You have to have a big heart while bowling at the death and try to execute your plans and bowl good balls.”
In the last three IPL 2024 matches, RR has decided to use Sandeep, who began his IPL career as a new ball bowler, to bowl at the end of the game.
If you were to ask me where I feel most at ease right now, I would answer that it’s with the new ball. As a bowler, you have to change and grow with the old ball,” he said.
After recovering from a side ailment that kept him out for over a month, Sharma rejoined the RR playing XI. “The last three weeks, I have been putting a lot of effort into becoming fit. Before the game, I had two practice sessions where my primary goal was to do the variations I performed today.”
Sandeep took wickets of Suryakumar Yadav, Tilak Varma, Tim David, Ishan Kishan, and Gerald Coetzee in the IPL 2024 match.
In the last over, he claimed three wickets, limiting MI to 179 despite Varma and Nehal Wadhera’s 99-run partnership. It may go either way if you’re bowling at the last minute. There are instances when you go for runs and, if you’re fortunate, you wind up with a wicket. It was a sluggish wicket when we first began. I just wanted to keep bowling those cutters, and tonight it worked out well,” he added.
The Mumbai Indians, captained by Hardik Pandya, suffered their fifth loss in the IPL 2024, but batter Nehal Wadhera remains upbeat about the team’s prospects of making the playoffs.
“From this point on, MI must win every game, and we must pull our socks up. After the game, Wadhera said, “We need to step up and assess where we’ve been falling short or succeeding so that we can make amends whenever we get back.”
The 23-year-old, who hit an incredible 24-ball 49, made it clear that MI is no strangers to being mired in a mid-table mess—they have been there before and have often risen from the ashes.
“We have been in such a situation in earlier seasons as well, and we have, you know, upped our game from there and qualified.”We thus maintain our optimism even today. We’re going to stick to our plan and win the games for the squad. Wadhera said, “We win as a team and we lose as a team.”
