New Delhi. Chennai Super Kings faced Gujarat Titans on Tuesday in IPL 2024. Shivam Dubey scored 51 runs in 23 balls for Chennai. Shivam had more sixes than fours in this innings. Shivam also made the short balls fly easily. He showed an example of this on the 14th ball of his innings. This ball of Spencer Johnson was a bouncer, which quickly landed on Shivam’s shoulder. But, Shivam easily hit this ball for a six over the deep fine leg boundary.
Batsmen for whom the short ball was a weakness. Shivam often lost wickets on such balls. After all, what happened as soon as he came to Chennai Super Kings that the game of Khali of Team India changed. After hitting a stormy fifty against Gujarat, Shivam also said that I knew that the fast bowlers of Gujarat would use the short ball against me and today I was ready for it. He faced 6 short pitch balls during his innings and he did not look uncomfortable while playing any of the balls.
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Shivam’s bat was speaking as soon as CSK arrived
In this IPL, the rule of two bouncers in every over is applicable. Despite this, Shivam Dubey is one of the few batsmen who is not facing any problem in facing fast bowlers. This is happening because he has now learned to play the bouncer. In fact, Shivam is now using his wrists better while playing pull and hook shots, which is helping him keep the ball down while playing shots. The second thing is that he has done his stance in such a way that he is standing deep in the crease and taking advantage of his height, he is making the ball travel in the air. As he did on Spencer’s ball.
Chennai batting coach Mike Hussey said,"If you go back a year or two, you will see that bowlers used the short ball a lot against Shivam Dubey. Shivam also either ducked the ball or played defensively. The bowlers are still bowling to Shivam with the same plan. But, now he is scoring runs and achieving boundaries easily. This shows how much hard work he has put in over the years."
