Umran Malik’s role is to run in and express himself: Moody

TIL Desk Sports/ Sunrisers Hyderabad speedster Umran Malik has been the talk of the town for his lightening fast deliveries and head coach Tom Moody said the young Jammu and Kashmir player has been given the license “to run in and express himself” with the ball.

The 22-year-old from Srinagar has consistently bowled deliveries clocking 145 to 150 km per hour this IPL. He bowled the fastest delivery in IPL history with the one clocking 153.1 km/hour against Chennai Super Kings on Saturday.

But he has leaked quite a lot of runs too — 173 in five matches so far for five wickets at an economy of 9.61. But Moody is not worried, saying “there is going to be a higher economy” due to his style of bowling.

“At the end of the day, when you are bowling 150 kph in this format, you don’t expect you are not going to go for runs. He goes for a lot of runs behind the wicket. But it’s not like he is getting smashed down the ground or through the covers,” Moody said.

“So you have got to accept that his style of bowling, there’s going to be a higher economy to that. And his role is to run in and express himself and be himself,” the coach said at the post-match conference after his side’s seven-wicket victory over Kolkata Knight Riders on Friday.