IPL 2022 UPDATE: Sunrisers Hyderabad versus Royal Challengers Bangalore: Can Sunrisers Hyderabad Take Advantage Of Jos Buttler’s Weakness?
Jos Buttler will be hoping to play a talismanic role against SunRisers Hyderabad (SRH); at the Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium in Pune as the Rajasthan Royals (RR); begin their Indian Premier League (IPL) 2022 campaign on Tuesday. The wicketkeeper-batsman has always struggled against SRH, but he finally broke the curse in IPL 2021. His 124-run innings against the SRH last season were his first in nine innings against the franchise. The Englishman had scored 73 runs with a strike rate of 94.81 in his previous eight innings against the club. IPL 2022 UPDATE: Sunrisers Hyderabad versus Royal Challengers Bangalore: Can Sunrisers Hyderabad Take Advantage Of Jos Buttler’s Weakness?
The presence of Rashid Khan, who has taken his wicket thrice; the most by a bowler in the IPL, was the main cause for the 31-year-failure old’s against SRH. He’s also had trouble playing against leg spinners in general.
In the IPL, Buttler has the slowest strike rate against leg spinners. He has 220 runs off 173 balls at a strike rate of 127.2 in 32 innings; against leg spinners, and he has also been dismissed 11 times.
Demonstrating the Englishman’s shortcoming against this sort of bowling, Buttler takes longer to hit boundaries against leggies than other bowlers.
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The attention will be on Shreyas Gopal and Abdul Samad to challenge Buttler on Tuesday; with Afghan spinner Rashid joining new team Gujarat Titans (GT) after IPL 2021.
Gopal joined SRH for Rs 75 lakh at the super auction this year after being releases by RR after IPL 2021. The Karnataka cricketer has 48 wickets in 48 IPL games, including a four-wicket haul.