MUMBAI (Reuters) – Rashid Khan proved management comes straightforward to him after the Afghanistan spinner led Gujarat Titans to an exciting victory towards Chennai Super Kings within the Indian Premier League (IPL).
With common skipper Hardik Pandya sitting out with a groin harm on Sunday, Rashid was put answerable for the IPL debutants, who restricted holders Chennai to 169-5 in Pune.
Gujarat then discovered themselves in all types of bother at 16-3 within the fourth over earlier than David Miller conjured an unbeaten 94 and Rashid smashed 40 off 21 balls to seal a three-wicket victory with a ball to spare.
“It’s a form of dream captaining the staff, however general the win made it memorable,” Rashid stated after Gujarat notched up their fifth win in six matches to steer the factors desk.
“Delivering with the bat, it was very particular.
“I’ve been working laborious on my batting. I think about myself an all-rounder, and I need to fulfil that accountability.”
With Gujarat needing 48 runs from 18 balls, Rashid smacked three sixes and a 4 in Chris Jordan’s third over, which yielded 25 runs.
“That was the time I needed to step up with the brief boundary in play. I instructed him (Miller) that if we will get 20 in that over, we will chase 30 within the final two.
“Luckily he (Jordan) bowled the place I wished him to.”
Rashid fell within the penultimate over however man-of-the-match Miller stayed put to see Gujarat dwelling.
“We wished to take the sport deep. We knew we will get 90 in seven overs on this wicket,” stated Rashid, who went wicketless with the ball conceding 29 runs in 4 overs.
“We instructed David to go for it when the ball was in his zone.
“We have a very good decrease order that may hit the ball actually laborious … In Twenty20s, you simply want two batsmen to attain huge and end it.”
(Reporting by Amlan Chakraborty in New Delhi; Editing by Peter Rutherford)
