Rashid’s 12 wickets that make him SRH’s top wicket-taker…
In-form batsman of Kings XI Punjab, Nicholas Pooran, will do well to remember that SunRisers Hyderabad’s Rashid Khan dismissed him the last time the left-hander faced the leg-spinner in the Indian Premier League.
Incidentally, that was also the match when Pooran got highest score — 77 runs off 37 balls in IPL — even as KXIP failed to chase down SRH’s 201. However, the days of 200-plus scores seem to be long gone as the pitches in the UAE have slowed down considerably.
That could make the job that much harder for Pooran, who is likely to face one of the best T20 leg spinners in the world in the middle overs on Saturday.
However, Rashid’s 12 wickets that make him SRH’s top wicket-taker have come mostly in the middle overs and that could make this contest interesting.
The ball turning in to the Pooran should help but Rashid has a very well-disguised googly that has brought about the downfall of many a batsman over the years in the IPL.
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