Former Indian cricketer Aakash Chopra praised West Indies batter Nicholas Pooran for his match-winning half-century within the second T20I towards India. Aakash Chopra mentioned that Nicholas Pooran is likely one of the few gamers on this planet who can play a damaging model of cricket.
The Hardik Pandya-led crew scored 152 runs after successful the toss at Windfall Stadium in Guyana on Sunday, August 6. In response, the hosts chased down the goal with seven balls to spare. Nicholas Pooran helped the crew take a 2-0 lead within the five-match collection.
He Is My Participant Of The Match – Aakash Chopra
In a video shared on his YouTube channel, Aakash Chopra identified that Suryakumar Yadav was the one aggressive batter within the Crew India lineup.
“The match bought settled within the second innings when Nicholas Pooran got here. His identify is Nicky P and he’s my Participant of the Match. The shape he’s in and to keep up that kind with this tempo, it simply speaks volumes that this participant is extraordinarily particular,” Chopra mentioned.
“You additionally really feel barely envious as a result of Suryakumar Yadav is the one participant like that in your crew, who was sustaining such a kind and batting like this. Everybody else, every time they play, they play properly, however only a few gamers on this planet have this sort of damaging mode. Nicholas Pooran, at this time limit, is likely one of the greatest,” he added.
Pooran began the innings with an aggressive method, regardless of dropping two wickets within the first over. The left-handed batter scored 67 runs off 40 balls, together with six boundaries and 4 sixes. He was rewarded with the Participant of the Match for his contribution.
Nicholas Pooran Is Very Good – Aakash Chopra
The cricketer-turned-commentator praised Nicholas Pooran‘s aggressive method in T20Is and highlighted how he performed an important position in serving to the crew get better after dropping early wickets.
“You typically don’t see variations in a T20 knock, that you just hit as properly, then you definitely take singles and then you definitely decide it up once more. You see this loads in ODIs, you might begin sturdy, then decelerate somewhat, after which collect tempo. So that you see these curves however in T20s, the graph principally goes upwards however that’s not the case with Nicky P.”
“When he got here, the crew was struggling loads, two wickets had fallen for 2 runs – Brandon King and Johnson Charles had been dismissed and the crew was caught. Then Kyle Mayers bought out however this man hit at first after which amassed runs one after the other. He is superb,” he concluded.
The left-handed batter got here in when the rating was 2/2 and bought out when the rating reached 126/4 within the 14th over. The hosts struggled after his dismissal, however Akeal Hosein and Alzarri Joseph fashioned an unbeaten ninth-wicket partnership of 26 runs to finish the chase.