‘Abdul Samad was the first one to come up…’, SRH batting coach

SRH batting coach Hemang Badani said Abdul Samad redeemed himself with a match-winning effort against Rajasthan Royals as past failures were “hurting” the Jammu and Kashmir batter inside.

Hemang Badani said –

“It is a great win for us because it gives us momentum. A few games could have been a different for us, especially the last game against KKR in which we needed 9 off the last over. We could not finish that. Also the game against Delhi at home should have been finished by us.”

Badani revealed Samad was gutted after the loss to KKR – “It will give a lot of belief to guys like Samad as we would have felt he missed out on a couple of times and to have done it here, the next time he will bat differently in a similar situation.”

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Badani further said –

“I have to give full marks to Samad. He was the first one to come up to me after the last game and said ‘I should have finished the game’. He took ownership of it. He didn’t finish well and was unhappy about it. He was thinking that ‘I am a retained player and I want to show the team that I am worth its time and investment’.

Badani further added – “A few sides have tried doing certain things against him and we have worked on that. One of them did come off this evening.”