MS Dhoni praise brings solace to Siddarth Kaul
Sunrisers Hyderabad's Siddarth Kaul has revealed that MS Dhoni's praise after SRH's last ball loss to RPS came as a consolation to the pacer. The 26-year-old said that Dhoni had a small chat with the 26-year-old after the defeat praising him for his efforts in the last over.
Having scored 19 runs off a Bhuvneshwar Kumar over, Dhoni would have looked up to see Warner hand the ball to Kaul, in the hopes of defending 11 runs off the last over. On the very first ball, Rashid Khan dropped Manoj Tiwary at deep midwicket to hand the game to RPS. Kaul still ensured that the game went to the very last ball, but Dhoni's hard hit past the long off boundary handed Pune the two points. But the dejected Kaul got a lift from the same man who had brought him defeat.
“Acha ball
“It is very challenging to bowl at Mahi
After not getting a single minute on the field in the initial games of the season, Kaul was finally picked in the Playing XI against Kings XI Punjab, where he gave away just five runs in the last over defending 11 runs. His next challenge came against Delhi Daredevils where he was asked to defend 24 off the last over. He conceded a six off the very first ball but over the rest of the over gave away just two runs.
The 26-year-old has been picked in the team, in recent weeks, over the likes of Ashish Nehra and Mustafizur Rahman. But Kaul said that the reason behind his selection was that David Warner trusted him after playing alongside him in Delhi as well.
“Warner knows me since we played together for Delhi Daredevils. Yuvi
“There are far more established bowlers in the team, still they have shown faith in me by giving the last over, that too in a T20 format.”