SRH’s Virat Singh eyeing at IPL 2020 to take his game to the next level

Dixit Bhargav | 09/05/2020
SRH's Virat Singh eyeing at IPL 2020 to take his game to the next level

SRH’s Virat Singh eyeing at IPL 2020: The Jharkhand batsman has been bought by SunRisers Hyderabad for nearly 10 times his base price.

In a recent interview with ESPNcrininfo, Jharkhand and SunRisers Hyderabad batsman Virat Singh remembered a learning lesson from veteran India wicket-keeper batsman Mahendra Singh Dhoni when he was playing under the legendary captain during the Vijay Hazare Trophy 2016-17.

“He [MS Dhoni] said, ‘You’ve got the fitness and technique and you will get the runs’. Before this season also, he was in the nets helping me in manipulating the field, how to change the mind of the bowler, to play spin,” Virat Singh was quoted as saying by ESPNcrininfo.

In the build-up to the IPL 2019 auction, we had considered Virat Singh to be one of the potential opening batsmen which the then defending champion Chennai Super Kings could have bought for the next season of the tournament.

While Singh didn’t get a chance to play under Dhoni in the IPL, he could have played against him after being picked by SunRisers Hyderabad for IPL 2020. Had it not been for the novel COVID-19 pandemic, the left-hand batsman might have got a chance to make his IPL debut for SRH.

SRH’s Virat Singh eyeing at IPL 2020

Singh, 22, has played over 125 domestic matches across formats in the last six years. A T20 average and strike rate of 35.27 and 124.45 respectively has made him a bankable name for Jharkhand in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy.

Talking about his ambition of playing in the biggest T20 league, Singh pointed out how playing with and under some of the greats of the game could take his game to the “next level”.

“To share the dressing room with Kane Williamson and David Warner is a dream come true. You talk about the coaches as well – World Cup-winning coach [Trevor] Bayliss, [VVS] Laxman and [Muttiah] Muralitharan.

“I just hope the IPL happens so I can learn from them and take my game to the next level. If things get normal in India, I might go and play in the Chennai league as well. I will get decent match practice there before the IPL, if it happens,” Singh said.

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Dixit Bhargav

Born and brought up in Pathankot, Dixit Bhargav is an engineering and sports management graduate who works as a Cricket Editor at The SportsRush. Having written more than 10,000 articles across more than five years at TSR, his first cricketing memory dates back to 2002 when former India captain Sourav Ganguly had waved his jersey at the historic Lord’s balcony. What followed for an 8-year-old was an instant adulation for both Ganguly and the sport. The optimist in him is waiting for the day when Punjab Kings will win their maiden Indian Premier League title. When not watching cricket, he is mostly found in a cinema hall watching a Punjabi movie.

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