While the Delhi Capitals versus Sunrisers Hyderabad could have shaken essentially the most passionate of kids with goals of turning into a bowler to the core, South Africa’s legendary seamer Dale Steyn believes that regardless of the chances stacked up towards those with the ball in hand “it’s always a good time to be a bowler”.
Steyn inspired bowlers to remodel themselves into their finest model potential to dictate phrases to the batters wielding their marauding willow in skinny air.
Steyn’s message got here after the seventeenth season of the Indian Premier League (IPL) witnessed a run-fest of its personal variety on Saturday (April 20).
The thirty fifth sport of IPL 2024 noticed the bat dominate the ball prefer it had by no means earlier than. Abhishek Sharma and Travis Head opened the innings for Sunrisers Hyderabad and targetted each potential space of the park which compelled the Delhi bowlers to duck for canopy.
The pair registered the very best powerplay rating ever recorded in a males’s T20 innings. Abhishek hammered 46 off 12 balls and was extraordinarily shut to breaking the report for the quickest fifty within the cash-rich league.
On the opposite hand, Head was additionally perilously shut to breaking Chris Gayle‘s report of the quickest century within the historical past of the IPL. Head was batting on 84 off simply 26 balls and wanted to attain the three-figure mark on the subsequent three balls to shatter Gayle’s report.
A 30-ball ton would have helped him equal Gayle’s report. However, it wasn’t meant to be as DC fought again rather well to pull issues again drastically and prevented Sunrisers from going previous 300, which seemed nicely inside the attain of the guests at one stage.
In reply, Delhi Capitals did not go down with out placing up a battle. Their abroad signing, Jake Fraser-McGurk launched an onslaught on the Sunrisers bowlers and registered the quickest fifty for Delhi within the IPL off simply 15 balls.
Though Delhi fell 67 quick of the Sunrisers’ whole, they hammered their bowlers and made their bowling assault sweat all through.
