Umran Malik had a poor IPL crusade in 2023, getting done with just five wickets to his name in 8 matches.
On Sunday afternoon, Sunrisers Hyderabad suffered their final defeat of the 2023 Indian Premier League season against Mumbai Indians.
The side, batting first, posted areas of strength for a 200/5 out of 20 overs however was let somewhere near its bowling unit, as Rohit Sharma’s men pursued down the objective with two overs in excess.
After RCB, the other team competing for a playoff spot, lost its final match against Gujarat Titans later that night, MI all-rounder Cameron Green scored his first IPL century in the final ball of the chase.
The Sunrisers had made two or three changes to their XI in the match against MI, additionally including an out-of-structure Umran Malik in the arrangement.
Aiden Markram, the captain of SRH, came under fire. During the team’s previous match against RCB when he admitted that he was unaware of the reason for Umran’s absence from the starting lineup.
The pacer had shown up for the side till then, at that point.
However, the speedster also failed to impress in the SRH’s season-ending match, giving up 41 runs in three overs.
Virender Sehwag, a former India opener, was critical of the Indian pacer, insisting that despite working with Dale Steyn for some time, he hasn’t learned from him.
As Sehwag took apart SRH’s bowling execution, he talked about Umran. Only by getting rid of those hitters can we win.
Markram had asked the bowler to bowl a back-of-the-length delivery and kept) Fine leg, square leg, and deep midwicket.
Yet, the players didn’t commit an error. Sehwag told Cricbuzz that SRH took the chance, but the batters smashed them all over the park.
“The bowlers weren’t very great. They could have been asked by the captain to keep one long-on and one long-off. The problem is that you were unable to completely halt the flow of runs.
I could have understood that he wouldn’t want to bowl too full if it were a South African pacer. But Umran Malik keeps shifting his length, which is the issue.
He lacks prior experience. He could have worked a great deal with Dale Steyn, yet he hasn’t actually found out about his length.
Sehwag stated, “He’s making the same mistakes that he did last year. Despite working with Steyn for such a long time and learning from him.”
At a poor economy rate of 10.85, Umran finished his IPL 2023 campaign with only five wickets in eight matches.