Chennai Super Kings batsman Devon Conway mentioned skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s recommendation on dealing with spinners helped him rating his third straight half-century within the Indian Premier League (IPL) as he thumped Delhi Capitals by 91 runs on Sunday.
Conway often performs the sweep shot towards spin bowling however was dismissed when he tried one towards Royal Challengers Bangalore leg-spinner Wanindu Hasaranga in his final recreation.
A chat with Dhoni prompted Conway to play extra straight and the New Zealander reaped the rewards towards Delhi, stepping out to hit spinners Axar Patel and Kuldeep Yadav for large sixes of their opening overs.
Devon Conway often performs the sweep shot towards spin bowling however was dismissed when he tried one towards Royal Challengers Bangalore leg-spinner Wanindu Hasaranga of their final recreation. (Sportzpics for IPL/PTI)
“I’ve got to give credit to MS tonight,” Conway, whose 87 adopted scores of 85 not out and 56, advised Star Sports. “In the final recreation I swept quite a bit and sadly bought out taking part in the sweep.
“Dhoni mentioned to me, ‘I believe the blokes are going to attempt to bowl fuller to you tonight. So perhaps come out and attempt to hit them straight.’
“So he sort of gave me the guidelines to try to execute that. That’s what I tried to do.”
Conway scored 54 runs from the 20 balls of spin he confronted within the match. Chennai scored 208-6 of their 20 overs on the DY Patil Stadium.
England all-rounder Moeen Ali claimed three wickets for 13 runs in his 4 overs to make sure champions Chennai dismissed Delhi for 117 in 17.4 overs and seal their fourth win in 11 video games this season.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
