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IPL 2024: What Makes Pat Cummins A Master Strategist?
IPL fans witnessed a record breaking match last night. The Sunrisers Hyderabad posted the highest total ever achieved in an IPL game - 278 runs. Abhishek Sharma, Travis Head, Aiden Markram and Heinrich Klassen generously contributed to this huge total. Mumbai Indians, in reply, weren't bad with the bat either. Mumbai ended up scoring 246 runs, losing the match by just 31 runs. In short, it wasn't a bowlers day.
Even in a game in which over 500 runs were scored in 40 overs, the SRH captain Pat Cummins stood out. Where bowlers struggled to keep their economies under 12.00, Cummins ended with figures of 2/35 in his 4 overs. So, let's discuss what exactly makes him this good a strategist.
The answer lies in his ability of reading the pitch. Cummins opened this spell against a well-set Rohit Sharma who dispatched his second ball for a six. Cummins changed his strategy instantly, bowling the next delivery into the pitch and extracting some extra bounce. Sharma was unable to middle it and was caught at fine leg.
When Mumbai batters were middling almost everything in the middle of the innings, Cummins came up with a completely different strategy - bowling it slow and into the pitch. MI batters like Tim David had no idea how to dispatch such pace-off deliveries. Tilak Verma perished trying to pull a slower bouncer.
Cummins' overs almost sealed the game for SRH and reminded us once again why he is a super-strategist and an absolute master at his craft.