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By: Shree1news, 08 NOV 2020
All-rounder Jason Holder has turned out to be a sport changer for SunRisers Hyderabad (SRH) this season within the Indian Premier League (IPL) and former Kolkata Knight Riders captain Gautam Gambhir expressed surprise that the West Indies Test captain was not picked in the course of the auctions.
“It was very shocking for me that nobody truly went after somebody like Jason Holder. Jimmy Neesham was picked, Chris Morris was picked, different all-rounders had been picked. However Holder, who performs two codecs, continues to play international cricket for a team which struggles in a Test and One-Day format. So that you’re all the time beneath the pump, all the time beneath strain to ship,” Gambhir mentioned on ESPNCricinfo.
Holder was introduced in as a alternative for the injured Mitchell Marsh by the 2016 champions. Within the six matches he has performed, Holder has scored 55 runs approaching as a decrease order batsman and brought 13 wickets. SRH have misplaced simply certainly one of these six matches and so they have gone from being strugglers to a contender for the title as a result of dominant wins they’ve loved within the different 5 games.
Gambhir mentioned that Holder’s place as a senior player in West Indies teams that struggles in Exams and ODIs signifies that the 29-year-old all-rounder is used to dealing with strain.
“When you’re in such a situation most of the time in international cricket, obviously you know how to handle that pressure and that is something which we’ve always spoken about, how important it is for overseas players to handle the pressure of the IPL,” said Holder.
