Sunrisers Hyderabad’s Travis Head performs a shot throughout his century knock within the Indian Premier League 2024 match in opposition to Royal Challengers Bengaluru on April 15.
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Sunrisers Hyderabad have taken T20 batting to the subsequent stage with sustained range-hitting within the Indian Premier League, and Travis Head stated maximising Power Play phase was central to their aggressive strategy.
Head, whose 39-ball 100 led SRH to a record-setting 287/3 in opposition to Royal Challengers Bengaluru on April 15, underscored that strategy with a fifty contained in the Power Play.
It was additionally the second time Head accomplished a half-century throughout the first six overs.
“We’ve definitely got a lot of power through our top and middle-order and I think we’ve sort of got to tailor the way we want to play around that power that we’ve got, especially in power play,” stated Head within the post-match press convention.
The Australian opener has an ideal ally on the prime in an equally belligerent Abhishek Sharma, who blunts slower bowlers upfront whereas Head goes about destroying the pacers.
“I guess Abhi and I at the top of the order try to maximise that (Power Play) as much as we can. It may be fours, it may be sixes.
“But yeah, we want to try to attack the power play with the two of us and then obviously we’ve got a lot of power through that middle-order,” Head added.
It wasn’t a mere tall declare as a fast test will reveal SRH’s energy play scores in six matches this season as 65/1, 81/1, 58/1, 78/1, 40/3 and 76/0, and not one of the different 9 groups have come shut to these numbers.
But it was not blind hitting. Head revealed his strategy within the preliminary six overs.
“Depending on the field positions, I try to sum up what the bowlers are trying to do. In the power play, with just two fielders out, I try to think about hitting the ball 360, around the whole ground, as you only have to go over the infield or through the infielders for boundaries.
“I’d worked on a few things over the last couple of days. I did not execute the way I would have liked (in the last two matches). But today, especially in the power play, I was able to strike the ball the way I wanted,” stated the left-hander.
The 30-year-old additionally lauded Hyderabad bowlers, particularly skipper and premier pacer Pat Cummins, for holding their nerves when RCB batters had been scoring briskly.
“We knew that we probably needed three or four really good overs in the game to win it. So, it’s amazing to sit here and think that when we make 280, but it’s going to be one of the nights for the bowlers to hold on and I thought Pat bowled exceptionally well.
“We were able to get wickets throughout the middle of the overs which set the game up. DK (Dinesh Karthik) played an unbelievable innings. But we did really well to get them back at 125 or 130 for five,” he added.
