{"id":28364,"date":"2025-04-08T19:03:46","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T19:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/ipl-2025-nicholas-pooran-nearing-t20-batting-perfection-for-lucknow-super-giants\/"},"modified":"2025-04-08T19:03:48","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T19:03:48","slug":"ipl-2025-nicholas-pooran-nearing-t20-batting-perfection-for-lucknow-super-giants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/ipl-2025-nicholas-pooran-nearing-t20-batting-perfection-for-lucknow-super-giants\/","title":{"rendered":"IPL 2025: Nicholas Pooran nearing T20 batting perfection for Lucknow Super Giants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Pooran is regarded as one of the world&#8217;s best hitters of spin. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Over the past two IPL seasons, playing for Lucknow Super Giants, he has scored 448 runs at an average of 89.6 and strike-rate of 184.4 against slow bowlers &#8211; again suggesting he can bat with severe aggression while not getting out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He stands with a classical-looking, slightly-open stance, taps the ground once as the spinner enters his delivery stride and then thrashes the ball with his fast hands.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve never worked on my bat speed, I&#8217;m just blessed with incredible talent,&#8221; Pooran said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Trinidadian is not afraid to dispatch pace either. His strike-rate is 173.5 against left-arm quicks and 163.5 against right-armers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">According to analysts CricViz, there is not one line of pace bowling Pooran does not strike at more than 200 against at the death. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He strikes at more than 200 against every length except for yorkers, against which he takes down bowlers at a still-remarkable 166.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He is a hard worker. No one ever sees that,&#8221; former England all-rounder Samit Patel, who has played with Pooran at Trinbago Knight Riders and MI Emirates, told the BBC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The amount of training he does to try and hit sixes is phenomenal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;His mindset is absolutely second to none and he is fully committed. There are no half-hearted swings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Having seen him train, if the ball lands in a certain area, he has trained and trained so it is natural to him [to hit sixes].&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Since the start of 2023, Pooran strikes at 344.7 runs per hundred balls when playing the slog sweep, 266.7 when playing a hook shot and 234.7 on the pull.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/cwyqgrg2882o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pooran is regarded as one of the world&#8217;s best hitters of spin. Over the past two IPL seasons, playing for Lucknow Super Giants, he has scored 448 runs at an average of 89.6 and strike-rate of 184.4 against slow bowlers &#8211; again suggesting he can bat with severe aggression while not getting out. He stands [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28365,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28364"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28366,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28364\/revisions\/28366"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}