KKR picks Mitchell Starc for Rs 24.75 crore, breaks silence on criticism of poor start to IPL Cricket News

Australian pacer Mitchell Starc has not been criticized for not reaching the high IPL prices but admitted on Sunday that his lack of T20 experience may be the reason why it took him longer to find his rhythm. Starc, who was the highest buy-in player in the IPL with a whopping Rs 247.5 crore, had his best performance of the season taking 3/28, including two wickets in the final over, which helped KKR push Lucknow Super League away The Giants were limited to seven games at 161 under. KKR then chased down the target in 15.4 overs with eight wickets intact. Starc had attracted widespread criticism after taking just two wickets in four games before Sunday, averaging 77 and conceding 11 runs per over.

“I don’t read anything, so it doesn’t bother me,” Starc said after KKR’s win at the Eden Gardens here.

“I haven’t played a lot of T20 cricket in the last couple of years, so it probably took me a little longer than I would have liked to get back into rhythm and make a better impact. So today was good in that regard. .” Starc said it is not difficult for a Test cricketer to manage the workload of T20 cricket and adapt to the rigors of the IPL.

“I’m 34, so I’m pretty happy with my workload. I’ve been doing this for a long time, so that’s good.

“This is T20 cricket. For those who play Test cricket a lot, it’s definitely a lot easier physically. There’s probably more of a tactical aspect of it that you need to get used to.” In T20 cricket, the game It happened so quickly that the players couldn’t really think about what was happening.

“We play again on Tuesday and I think that’s the thing about T20 cricket, whether you’ve had a good day or a bad day. You quickly focus on the next game.

“We’ve started the season really well as a group so far and now we’re going into Tuesday.

“We kept them (LSG) on the same level with the way we bowled and that showed through the performance of our batsmen and ended up being clinical. So it was a pretty good day for KKR,” he added.