‘The batsman wins you sponsorship, the bowler wins you championship’: Bhuvneshwar Kumar’s outspoken words | Cricket News

Sunrisers Hyderabad pacer Bhuvneshwar Kumar is happy to see the team’s bowling unit taking a back seat to make changes, with the batsmen performing well in the 2024 Indian Premier League (IPL) season. However, Bouvet is not one to let the batsmen take all the credit, for him it is the bowling team that provides the “championship” and the batsmen only providing the “sponsorship”. Bhuvneshwar made the statement after SRH’s win over Delhi Capitals on Sunday, in which the veteran seamer scored 260-plus runs for the third time in the tournament. (IPL 2024 Points Table)

“When you defend so many runs, we accepted that we were going to have a lot of runs. We wanted to continue executing our plan. It was just a matter of time before I started picking up wickets and things started going well,” said Boo Wei at the post-match award ceremony.

Seamer also had high praise for teammate T Natarajan, whose bowling has been outstanding this season despite the batting unit having dominated the headlines.

“We know how well he (Natarajan) gets along with his yorkers, he’s a quiet guy who works hard all the time. He’s a real match-winner. This is probably the first time we’ve had it in so many years The batting went so well and as a bowling team we were happy that we would have felt the scores like 220-200 were less but the batting unit performed well and the conditions did not matter even in the nets they would Keep doing the same thing,” Bhuvneshwar added. .

While Bhuvneshwar was full of praise for Travis Head and Abhishek Sharma’s opening performances for SRH this season, he also insisted that the bowlers earned the title.

“When bowling in the nets, you don’t think too much about where the ball is going, but, yes, they gave us some good practice, especially Abhishek and Travis Head. The bowling makes you Match-winning stuff, not sure who said it but they say ‘batting wins you sponsorships, bowling wins you championships’ and I think that’s a great saying and the way we executed the plan was great,” he concluded road.