South Africa young star batsman Aiden Markram, who has made his IPL debut in the ongoing edition for the Punjab Kings has showered praise on the leg spinner Ravi Bishnoi for possessing too much of a skill set for a young bowler.
He made the remarks after Kings’w vital win over the Sunrisers Hyderabad where Bishnoi was at the top of his game and picked up three wickets of Manish Pandey, Kedar Jadhav and Abdul Samad.
The Kings batting including Markram himself struggled to get the ball off the square on a slow and sticky pitch at the Sharjah and could manage only 125 runs on the board. Those runs were not beyond the Sunriser’s reach and hence Markram said that the start by bowlers lead by Mohammed Shami set the tone for the defence.
“Incredible. It is amazing how he (Bishnoi) is still so young and yet his skill set is just on another level. I really think he is just going to go from strength to strength. If you look at the bowling unit as a whole, they were brilliant. Shami started off with wickets in the powerplay, which is always crucial in defending a low score. And then for the two spinners - Brar and Bish (Ravi Bishnoi) - to bowl the way they did was amazing,"
“It is not always easy going to a surface where, to an extent, you are expected to do well as spinner or need to do well for your team to win. But for them to deliver the goods, under pressure like it was tonight, in a must-win game, was important for us going forward. We can take a lot of confidence too as a team,” Markram asserted.
The Kings kept their campaign alive by earning an avital two points albeit after failing to put up a big score on the board. Markram said that the win over the Sunrisers will lift their confidence and they will take a lot of heart from this game going forward in the tournament.