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M Siddharth takes his first kill as Virat
Siddharth first wanted to become a fast bowler like Irfan.
New Delhi. Spinner M Siddharth, who is participating in the IPL on behalf of Lucknow Super Giants, has made a lot of headlines by taking the first wicket of Virat Kohli in his debut season. Lucknow Super Giants captain KL Rahul made Siddharth bowl the first over of the match. This 25 year old bowler impressed a lot in his overs. He kept the strong batsmen like Kohli and Duplessis tied with his left arm spin bowling. Before this match, Siddharth had made a promise to the team’s head coach Justin Langer, which he fulfilled. LSG head coach told after the match how he had made a request to Siddharth in the nets.
Lucknow Super Giants head coach Justin Langer told that when M Siddharth was practicing in the nets, he saw the bowler bowling arm balls. Seeing Siddharth bowling like this, Langer immediately asked if he could take the wicket of Virat Kohli. On this Siddharth also replied as Yes Sir. Then the whole world saw what happened in the 15th match of IPL. Siddharth took his first wicket of his IPL career by getting Kohli caught by Devdutt Padikkal at backward point on the second ball of RCB’s fifth over. Virat tried to play this ball on the leg side.
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This was the second match of M Siddharth’s IPL career. He made his debut against Punjab Kings but did not get any wicket in that match. Siddharth’s dream was to become a fast bowler like Irfan Pathan but he later tried his hand in left arm spin bowling. This is because his pace had reduced. Although he was swinging the bowling. As his experience increased, he added variations to his bowling which became difficult for the batsmen to play. He dismissed Kohli only because of variation in bowling. Virat was looking in good form after scoring 22 runs.
Justin Langer said, ‘I had not talked to him before. I saw him doing arm ball. The first thing that came out of my mouth as soon as I saw him after the meeting was ‘Sid’. Can you get Virat Kohli out for us? He said- Yes sir! And he got him out. Siddharth said that it was his dream to dismiss Virat which was fulfilled.
Who is M Siddharth?
M Siddhartha was born in Jakarta, Indonesia. He came to Chennai at a very young age. Where he furthered his cricket career. This was Siddharth’s second match in IPL. He performed well for Tamil Nadu in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy in 2019. After this, Kolkata Knight Riders added him to their fold in 2020. KKR released him without playing the match. Then he was adopted by Delhi Capitals. Due to injury, he could not play in the second leg played in UAE and Delhi also released him. After this he remained as a net bowler with Mumbai Indians and Chennai Super Kings. LSG bought him in the auction before the 17th season for Rs 2.4 crore.
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Tags: IPL, IPL 2024, Lucknow Super Giants, rcb, Virat Kohli
FIRST PUBLISHED: April 3, 2024, 12:32 IST