Punjab Kings batsman Shashank Singh throughout the IPL T20 cricket match towards SRH at the Maharaja Yadavindra Singh Cricket Stadium in Mullanpur, Punjab on April 09, 2024.
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Punjab Kings’ Shashank Singh on Tuesday burdened on the significance of self-belief for a batter and stated that he and his accomplice Ashutosh Sharma believed till the penultimate ball that they’ll take their crew residence versus Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH).
Chasing 283, Kings misplaced the match by simply two runs. When Shashank and Ashutosh got here collectively, 69 runs have been wanted off 27 balls.
“We have to give credit to Ashutosh for this – the way he batted in the last over (With 29 runs needed, Kings scored 26). We both believed till the second last ball (10 were needed) that it’s possible. We were talking in gestures that it’s possible,” he stated at the post-match press convention right here.
Saying that his middle-order position “is to take the game as deep as possible,” Shashank added that he and Ashutosh had perception instilled in them from batting in related match eventualities within the pre-season camp.
“We did a lot of match simulations. We had a camp before the IPL started. We used to bat at Nos. 5, 6, and 7. We were given a lot of scenarios – 60 runs from 5 overs, 70 from 5… We chased down those a lot of times. We had a lot of belief.”