Sunrisers Hyderabad bowling spearhead Ashish Nehra felt that despite few negatives, bowlers have evolved a lot over the last 10 seasons in the IPL
Ashish Nehra
Ashish Nehra during a media interaction in a city hotel yesterday. Pic/Datta Kumbhar
Sunrisers Hyderabad bowling spearhead Ashish Nehra felt that despite few negatives, bowlers have evolved a lot over the last 10 seasons in the IPL. The left-arm pacer, who played for five different franchisees — Mumbai, Chennai, Delhi, Pune and Hyderabad said that batsmen are playing innovative shots so a bowler has to keep thinking constantly to get the better of him.
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"From 2007-08 till now, not only IPL, but cricket worldwide has changed. As a bowler, you have to evolve because batsmen are playing new shots, boundaries have become smaller and wickets are becoming more batting-friendly. So you see a lot of bowlers bowling yorkers outside the off-stump or the slower bouncer, which were not there before. Like a batsman, a bowler is also working on his craft. And so you can see the game swinging from one side to the other. If that wouldn't have been the case, then every batting team would have scored 250-plus runs on flat wickets, but that is not happening," Nehra told mid-day yesterday. The 38-year-old lanky seamer also said that apart from training, recovery is equally important for a bowler like him.
"For me, recovery is as important as training. At 38, if I say otherwise, I would be lying. You have to put in those extra yards, follow a routine and stick to it and that's what I have been doing," said Nehra.
Apart from fitness, the Delhi-based pacer also said that one has to be mentally strong to bowl at the death.
"In the death overs, you will succeed only if you execute your skills well and to do that, you have to be mentally very strong. One or two bad deliveries or one or two bad games shouldn't pull you down. If you let those failures play in the mind then you will never recover, that is the main thing in T20 cricket," said Nehra.
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