Watch: Umran Malik reveals his wish to Rahul Tripathi | Cricket News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: Tearaway pacer Umran Malik played an important role in Sunrisers Hyderabad’s maiden victory of the IPL 2023 as they registered an eight-wicket win over Punjab Kings on Sunday.
The right-arm pacer returned figures of 2/32 in his four overs and both his wickets came in the form of clean bowled. But Umran, who is known to wreak havoc with his sheer pacer, broke the bails of Punjab’s batter Harpreet Brar while castling him with 148 kph delivery.
Batter Rahul Tripathi, who played a match-winning knock of 74 not out to help SRH chase down 144 in 17.1 overs, gifted the broken bails to Umran after the match.

“Probably, I have broken stumps with tennis balls on a few occasions. But in the IPL this is second or third. I had broken one or two bails in the last IPL. It also happened when I was playing for India. You just keep praying that I get to break bails like this in future,” said Umran in a video posted by the IPL’s official social media accounts.
“Yes, I am happy, I am bowling at the right areas and I will try to bowl slowers and yorkers in death overs. The boundary was shorter at one side, where I thought will lose runs, but captain (Aiden Markram) asked me to bowl in that area so I bowled there. But that created chances of getting wickets. We will continue to work on our plans and give better performance,” he added.
Meanwhile, Tripathi came in when Hyderabad were at 45/2 in 8.3 overs. But he took his time to get going and then accelerated to be unbeaten at 74 off 48 balls, hitting ten fours and three sixes at a strike-rate of 154.17.
“Yes, in the start, I took time. But after playing some balls and understanding how the pitch is playing, I got some boundaries and did a good chase, with the run rate not being that high. The plan was to hit one-two boundaries in an over,” the batter said.
“Then I got some good boundaries and the chase went well. It feels good to win after the first two tough games and now we will try to keep this momentum up,” he added.
Hyderabad’s next match in IPL 2023 will be against Kolkata Knight Riders at the Eden Gardens on April 14.
(With IANS Inputs)