Bowling in death is one of the toughest tasks in T20 cricket, so difficult that it’s often so easy to get down. Because a little edge can turn your precise yorker into a boundary ball. And what about the days you keep missing the yorker.
But despite all that, the left arm designer keeps coming back. He is a quick learner and a calm operator, just like his senior Jasprit Bumrah, which is why India continues to trust Arshdeep to knock down the toughest ones. They’re even willing to sacrifice Umran Malik’s 150 km/h pace for variety.
Arshdeep had only been brought on offense for the 18th and he took out Ish Sodhi and Lockie Ferguson with shoulder-high bouncers. Both deliveries reached speeds of less than 130 (km/h), but even on slow ground they skidded on batters. Sure, Sodhi and Ferguson are lower-order hitters, but Arshdeep’s bouncers also cheated out top hitters. Ask Asif Ali, Mohammad Rizwan and Kyle Mayers. A third of his 39 wickets in the T20Is are the result of short or short deliveries, according to ESPNcricinfo logs.
The nature of a death caster’s job is such that he will have more bad days than good ones. And in T20 cricket, where most matches are decided by narrow margins, people tend to point the finger at the guy who let a few too many runs slip away in the endgame without always appreciating how difficult his task was. Arshdeep, for example, was bowling with a wet ball when he gave up those 27 points in the first T20I.
“I was really impressed with Arshdeep, the way he did,” Kumble said on ESPNcricinfo’s Open Mic in October. “I worked with him for three years and got to see the kind of development he’s had in the T20 format, and last year’s IPL was a classic example of how he handled it. pressure.
“He may have played the tough games for the team and yeah you don’t always look at the wicket column in the T20 game, you look at what times the bowler comes in. And the temper he showed, that’s “It’s wonderful. We saw it again in the India-Pakistan game. When you have 90,000 people at the MCG, it’s always difficult.
Such comparisons, and Bumrah’s absence through injury, could also invite pressure, but Arshdeep has the skills and confidence to cope.
After helping India take on the T20I series, Arshdeep has another chance to excel in Ahmedabad. But, even if he doesn’t, even if he gives up a lot in the end, India knows he can bounce back; that it always bounces back.
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