IPL 2022: "I Think It Hurt Him Slightly" - Aakash Chopra Lauds Pat Cummins' Fiery Spell Against MI

Aakash Chopra has identified that Pat Cummins showed his value to the Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) management in the wake of being sidelined for the last few matches of IPL 2022.

Cummins returned figures of 3/22 in his four overs as KKR bowled out the Mumbai Indians (MI) for 113 runs in Monday’s (May 9) Indian Premier League experience. It assisted Shreyas Iyer’s w side to register a 52-run win and kept alive their thin expectations of enduring to the IPL 2022 playoff games.

Pat Cummins Was Hurt By Omission From Playing 11: Aakash Chopra

While commending Cummins’ spell in a video shared on his YouTube channel, Aakash Chopra featured that the Australian Test captain was most likely annoyed about being avoided by KKR’s playing XI.

He explained: “I am Australia’s captain and I remain the No. 1 Test bowler continuously and you don’t even feel me worthy enough of playing in your XI although your team has lost four-five consecutive matches. I think it hurt him slightly.”

The former KKR player called attention to the that Pat Cummins was not a member of the franchise’s initial XI because of isolation-related limitations.

Chopra observed: “Pat was sitting out for a long time. It seemed he was angry, was playing with a feeling of rancor. And here he got an opportunity again, he didn’t play at the start because he came from Pakistan and was not available due to the quarantine rules.”

Costly Spells Caused Pat Cummins To Lose His Place: Aakash Chopra

Aakash Chopra added that Cummins lost his place in KKR’s team because of several costly spells even though he had played a spectacular knock in their last match against MI.

He said: “But then when he played, he played well, won the match against Mumbai by scoring 50 runs off 14 balls, and after that, he was dropped. He was hit in two matches and he was dropped. After that, he was not played.”

Pat Cummins was dropped as he surrendered 190 runs in four matches, going at 12 runs for each over.

Notwithstanding, with Aaron Finch unable to perform at the top order with the bat, he was reviewed into the KKR playing XI as the fourth abroad player to the detriment of the Australian limited-overs captain.

Pat Cummins Did In Second Innings What Jasprit Bumrah Did In First: Aakash Chopra

Aakash Chopra closed by featuring that Cummins took every one of his wickets by undermining the opposition hitters, like what Jasprit Bumrah did during the KKR innings.

“He (Cummins) took three wickets. They were very important wickets, he dismissed Ishan Kishan – the only batter to score a half-century, Murugan Ashwin and Daniel Sams, by bowling the bouncers, by scaring and threatening the batters, we saw Jasprit Bumrah doing that in the first innings and Pat Cummins in the second.”

Cummins first had Ishan Kishan gotten by Rinku Singh at deep square leg off a bouncer. Daniel Sams and Murugan Ashwin additionally succumbed to the Aussie pacer’s short-pitched balls the equivalent over.

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