Delhi Capitals (DC) spinner Kuldeep Yadav says that he now enjoys his bowling despite the batters attacking the bowlers more in the ongoing Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024 edition. The season has seen some great hitting, especially by SunRisers Hyderabad (SRH) who have breached the previous highest team total of 263 set by Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) thrice in the season. One of those highest scores came against DC when SRH smashed 266/7 against them in 35th match of the season.

Speaking on the aggressive approach taken by the batters this season, Kuldeep, at a press event, said: “Sometimes you can get hit even on good balls, like it happened to me during the match against Sunrisers Hyderabad. (Heinrich) Klaasen and Abhishek hit sixes on good balls. But I believed in my skills, and I also got wickets that day. Now I enjoy my bowling more and I have learned all this from experience.”

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The spinner, however, said that he bowlers need to be more courageous and need to back their strength against trying to read batter’s mind.

“I feel that the bowlers are trying more to read the batters’ mind instead of sticking to their strengths. They are trying to bowl where the batter looks a little weak. But I think a bowler should understand his strengths and back his strengths. You can see Jasprit Bumrah, who backs his strengths. The way he bowls, any batter is on the back foot. He dominates the batters mentally. All these things become very important,” he added.

As for his own performance, the spinner has taken 12 wickets in eight matches so far, joint-seventh most in the season. Talking about his team, DC are currently sixth on the points table with five wins and six losses from 11 games. They would want to win their remaining three league games to have a shot at the playoffs.

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