Yuvraj running out Dhoni was the play of the day: Moises Henriques

Moises Henriques was indeed a major part of proceedings as the Sunrisers Hyderabad clinched an entertaining victory over the Rising Pune Supergiants. The Australian all-rounder added that the wicket of MS Dhoni changed the dynamics of the game almost completely. The 34-year old skipper of the Supergiants was run out by the evergreen Yuvraj Singh in the final over of the match, especially at a time when it seemed as though Dhoni was going to run away with the win.

“One of the key things at the death, when you’re setting fields, is to have a field they can bowl more than one ball to. Whether it’s a yorker or a slower ball or a bouncer or whatever might be, to someone like Dhoni and Perera, you can’t show in the field, what’s the next ball (that) is coming. So if you show them ‘I’m going to have all these fielders here because I’m going to bowl the ball right here’, and you miss that by one centimeter, you’re going to go for a six.

“But if you at least have a field where you can bowl two or three different balls then they can’t expect that one ball in that one area. So I think what we did well at the death is we set fields where we covered a few different options or few different balls, so that the bowler could bowl the yorker or he could bowl it back of the length or he could bowl the slower ball,” said Henriques in a press conference after the game.

Henriques  also added that the experience the southpaw brought to the table was simply something special.

“You can’t buy experience. Tonight when Yuvi [Yuvraj Singh] from backward point came running in for that run out, an inexperienced player would have been just watching the game and not know what was going on. For me, that was the play that won us the game. It’s that little play, otherwise, Dhoni would have been on strike for the win, set batsman and he’s a master-class in those situations. But to have a new batsman out there for the last ball, it was because Yuvi was aware and just having that experience shows in a game of cricket, when under pressure especially,” Henriques said.

“When we talk in the shed, young guys learn from that, remember what Yuvi did, that you can never switch off in a game, you always have to be thinking how you can get a wicket, and Yuvi showed his class there,” he added.

“I’m very happy that he’s done well. He grew up in New South Wales, the same state where I did. He came through their U-19s and U-17s as well. It’s good to see him succeed. He bowled well in the World Cup as well. And it’s great for him to get an opportunity in the IPL as well and now to show the IPL what he can do. It’s not too often that you see someone take 6/18 or 6/19. Those are fantastic bowling figures.

“What I’ve always liked about him, when he even came through first for New South Wales as a really young kid, is that he always wants to bowl. Doesn’t matter who’s batting. He might get hit for a couple of sixes, but he always wants the ball in his hand. When Yuvi was set and on strike, he’d hit a couple of big sixes. But Adam bowled again. I was next into bat. I thought, ‘This is really going to test Adam because Yuvi is obviously a very good player of spin bowling and is also very experienced’. But he got Yuvi out. The wicket was conducive to spin bowling, but you’ve got to give him credit. He just wants the ball in his hand all the time,” Henriques said.

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