Sunrisers Hyderabad’s Abdul Samad performs a shot in the course of the Indian Premier League cricket match between Rajasthan Royals and Sunrisers Hyderabad in Jaipur on Sunday, May 7, 2023.
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Sunrisers Hyderabad batting coach Hemang Badani stated Abdul Samad redeemed himself with a match-winning effort in opposition to Rajasthan Royals as previous failures had been “hurting” the Jammu and Kashmir batter inside.
The 21-year-old has been with SRH because the 2020 season however given them little return on funding. However, he repaid the religion on Sunday evening with a 7-ball 17 in SRH’s chase of 215.
SRH wanted 4 runs off the ultimate ball of the sport and Samad smashed Sandeep Sharma for a straight six, having being caught off a no ball the earlier supply.
Glenn Phillips had introduced again SRH within the recreation with a 7-ball 25.
The win retains SRH alive within the match.
“It is a great win for us because it gives us momentum. A few games could have been a different for us, especially the last game against KKR in which we needed 9 off the last over. We could not finish that. Also the game against Delhi at home should have been finished by us,” Badani stated.
“It will give a lot of belief to guys like Samad as we would have felt he missed out on a couple of times and to have done it here, the next time he will bat differently in a similar situation.”
Badani revealed Samad was gutted after the loss to KKR.
“I have to give full marks to Samad. He was the first one to come up to me after the last game and said ‘I should have finished the game’. He took ownership of it. He didn’t finish well and was unhappy about it.
“He was considering that ‘I’m a retained participant and I need to show the workforce that I’m worth its time and funding’.
“A few sides have tried doing certain things against him and we have worked on that. One of them did come off this evening,” added Badani.
