2024-03-22 01:42:00
Kolkata: The 2024 season of the Indian Premier League is about to start and just before that, the teams have started preparations by playing practice matches among themselves. Australian left-arm fast bowler Mitchell Starc, who returned to the IPL circus after almost a decade, bowled with the new ball in the practice match. During the second warm-up match of Kolkata Knight Riders at Eden Gardens, he faced Rinku Singh in the death overs. The short Indian batsman, famous for big blasts, hit such a six that Starc kept watching.
Mitchell Starc returning to IPL after almost 10 years
The Australian player, who last played IPL for Royal Challengers Bangalore in 2014 and 2015, was bought by KKR ahead of IPL 2018, but he was ruled out of that season due to injury. The franchise co-owned by Shahrukh Khan broke the auction record this year and bought him for a price of Rs 24.75 crore. KKR wants to strengthen its pace.
Mitchell Starc made a strong start with the new ball, but…
Starc had said about this – When it is the best T20 league in the world, it is always like a circus. This is definitely a new challenge. Yes, it’s going to be exciting. I am excited for it. Now when Starc bowled at full speed with the new ball, things did not seem to be working out. However, Starc troubled Afghan batsman Gurbaz with the bounce and then had him LBW. In this way, he had one wicket for one run in one over.
Mitchell Starc gave away 20 runs in the last over, Rinku Singh hit a monster six.
Later, he was given the ball in the death overs in front of Rinku Singh and Manish Pandey. Here the Australian player conceded 20 runs in the last over and finished his quota with figures of 4-0-40-1. During this, Rinku started the last over by hitting a six over midwicket, but Starc made a mistake on the yorker and bowled a full toss. Everyone knows what Rinku Singh does after this. The ball was sent out of the boundary at rocket speed. The video of this moment is going viral.