I Had Butterflies In My Abdomen From seventeenth Over: KKR Skipper Shreyas Iyer

Kolkata, Mar 23: Kolkata Knight Riders captain Shreyas Iyer on Saturday admitted his wobbling nerves when Sunrisers Hyderabad’s Heinrich Klassen was going ballistic in pursuit of a stiff 209-run goal in an IPL match right here on Saturday.

Chasing a stiff 209, Klassen (63 off 29b) single-handedly introduced SRH inside sniffing distance of an unbelievable win earlier than ultimately falling brief by 4 runs.

“Proper from the seventeenth over, I had butterflies within the abdomen! To be trustworthy, I assumed something can occur within the final over,” Iyer stated.

SRH wanted 13 runs off the final over and odds have been of their favour with a red-hot Klassen and Shahbaz Ahmed on the crease.

However Iyer determined to throw the ball to younger Harshit Rana and he didn’t disappoint both. Rana dismissed each Klaasen and Ahmed to stifle SRH.

“Harshit was a bit nervous when he was coming to bowl (the final over). I advised him, ‘Even when we lose, it’s wonderful’. I attempted to calm him down as a lot as attainable.

“(Sunil) Narine and (Andre) Russell have gotten lots of expertise. I’m elated to see how Russell carried out with bat and ball. Sunny (Narine) executed effectively.

“It’s a luxurious to have them within the group. Everytime you begin with a win, it offers you motivation. There are areas we have to enhance on as a group – fielding is certainly one of them!” SRH skipper Pat Cummins stated he by no means thought they might come so shut whereas chasing an imposing 209 if not for Klassen’s terrific knock, who was ably supported by Ahmed (16 off 5).

“Shut sport in the long run, fantastic sport of cricket. Sadly, didn’t go our manner. I assumed for probably the most half, actually pleased with how we bowled,” he stated.

“It’s a kind of video games, goes come what may, superb job by Klaas (Klaasen) and Shahbaz to get us again into the sport and get us into that place. Who would have thought we’d get that shut.

“Sadly, slightly bit an excessive amount of. In a sport the place we didn’t actually pull all of it collectively. We nonetheless virtually competed in opposition to an excellent facet at their dwelling venue, heaps to be inspired by, lot of excellent performers, a few factors to work on additionally,” Cummins added.

The ace Australian pacer stated Andre Russell simply took the sport away from SRH along with his exploits with the bat.

Russell was at his damaging finest, smashing seven sixes and three fours enroute to his unbeaten 25-ball 64.

“Clearly, Dre Russ (Russell) on the finish does what Dre Russ does, he’s fairly laborious to include. Total, I assumed we did a fairly good job,” he stated.

“You do your planning, you attempt to execute your finest however a fairly powerful man to bowl to, performed some good pictures, couple of balls perhaps we may have bowled slightly bit otherwise however the hardest job in cricket is bowling at somebody like that in the long run.” PTI SSC UNG

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