Kuldeep Yadav bagged his second Man of the Match award of the season in four matches and played a significant part in the Delhi Capitals’ second win of IPL 2022. Rishabh Pant‘s side defeated Shreyas Iyer’s Kolkata Knight Riders at the Brabourne with the chinaman bagging a four-wicket haul as KKR failed short of DC’s 215 by 44 runs.
Kuldeep’s four-fer included the important wicket of Shreyas Iyer followed by those of Cummins, Narine, and Umesh in one over.
At 117/3, with Shreyas Iyer scoring a fluent fifty, the game hung in balance – before Kuldeep dismissed KKR’s captain. After being plundered down for a six by Shreyas, Kuldeep dragged back his length, foreseeing Iyer’s skip down the track and had the KKR skipper perplexed with a googly and stumped out.
“I am not trying too much. I am just focussing on my rhythm ever since I came back into the Indian team. The lengths were really good in all my wickets against both Shreyas and Cummins. The team is really backing me a lot. Rishabh has been very calm and has been guiding me from behind the stumps. I am enjoying a lot. It is important to pause and think what you are bowling.”
