Both Royal Challengers Bangalore and Mohammed Siraj are having fun with an important marketing campaign within the ongoing version of the Indian Premier League. With 4 wins from the identical variety of matches, RCB are positioned on the pole place on the eight-team factors desk, whereas Siraj has thus far scalped 5 wickets bowling at a powerful common of 18.20.
Impressed with Siraj’s show in IPL 2021, former India seamer Ashish Nehra in contrast the 27-year-old with India’s premier seamer Jasprit Bumrah and claimed that the previous is higher by way of abilities.
“There was talk about a couple of years ago that he used to pick up 5-6 wickets in every match for India A with the red ball… (now he) is a very good all-format bowler. There is no shortage skill, he has all type of variations. I would in fact say that skill wise, he is even ahead of Bumrah, if you talk of variations,” Nehra stated in a video on Cricbuzz.
“He has a different slower one, there is no lack of speed, he can move the new ball. He needs to keep his fitness and sharpen his mind. If he can do these two things well, sky is the limit,” the previous cricketer added.
Siraj, who had an excellent outing with Team India in Australia, has been filling the boots of senior compatriots (Bumrah, Ishant Sharma, Mohammed Shami, Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Umesh Yadav) whereas they had been recovering from their respective accidents. Siraj has not seemed again since then, persevering with his high-quality run of kind.
Inswinging Yorker within the powerplay. This exhibits Mohammad Siraj is now Specialist T20 bowler. pic.twitter.com/pGG8WEdigX
— CricketMAN2 (@man4_cricket) April 22, 2021
In IPL 2021, Siraj has been spearheading the RCB assault and has been dealing with the brand new ball duties alongside Kyle Jamieson. He additionally turned the primary bowler to achieve 50 dot balls within the ongoing season.