Sunil Narine hopes to continue being the mystery bowler – Cricket News Update
Kolkata Knight Riders’ http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sunil-Philip-Narine-c91869, hopes he continues being the mystery bowler in the future as well.
The right-arm off-spinner from Trinidad, who turned 24 on Saturday, May 26, is so far the second most successful bowler of the 2012 IPL. With 24 wickets in his bag from 14 appearances, the West Indian, playing his maiden IPL edition,
trails the current purple cap holder, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/M-Morkel-c73528 by just one wicket and will most probably finish the tournament at the top of the wickets table.
“...commentators and the reporters have labelled me as the mystery man and I’ve taken it as a compliment. I hope I can continue being the mystery bowler,” said the Trinidadian during an exclusive interview with
The Telegraph on the eve of the IPL final between Kolkata Knight Riders and Chennai Super Kings on Saturday.
The 24-year-old right-arm off-spinner, who was bought by the KKR co-owner Shah Rukh http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Khan-c71319 for a staggering $700,000 in IPL-V players’ auction in February earlier this year, has been Knight Riders' trump card. His incisive bowling,
at an impressive average of 11.95 and an economy rate of 5.20 played a key role in taking KKR to the IPL final for the first time in the history of the esteemed tournament.
Narine comes from the region of the world known for producing intimidating fast bowlers, but he opted to master spin. Asked about his inspiration in off-spin bowling, the Trinidadian said that he has been observing Sri Lankan spin
wizard http://www.senore.com/Cricket/M-Muralitharan-c1864 and his never give-up attitude inspires him a lot. He however did not credit any coach or mentor in his success as mystery spin bowler.
“I have learnt this art from my own practice, I don’t have any particular mentor,” Narine told the media persons. “I have worked really hard on my bowling to develop this style,” he added further.
The Chennai Super Kings' skipper, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/MS-Dhoni-c2028, is also wary of Narine’s mysterious spin and admitted that reading the action of West Indian is very difficult.
"With his action, it is difficult to catch him as to which side he is bowling whether it is the one that comes in to a right hander or it goes out," Dhoni said at the pre-match press conference in Chennai on Saturday.
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