Watching Umran bowl fast and get wickets is a joy: Bhuvneshwar Kumar

Sunrisers Hyderabad's seasoned seamer Bhuvneshwar Kumar on Sunday praised his younger pace colleague Umran Malik, saying watching him bowl fast "is a joy". Bhuvneshwar (3/22) and Umran (4/28) combined to bundle out Punjab Kings for 151 in their IPL game here, paving the way for their team's seven-wicket victory.

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Young pace sensation Umran Malik's scorching final over proved to be the difference as Sunrisers Hyderabad slayed Punjab Kings by seven wickets for their fourth successive win in the Indian Premier League on Sunday.

Asked about Umran, India seamer Bhuvneshwar said in a lighter vein, "More than (Umran) helping me, it means I am a target as batters think I'm slower. "But watching him bowl fast and get wickets is a joy. Hope the others going after me leads to wickets and not boundaries (smiles)." Bhuvneshwar gave SRH a perfect start as he dismissed seasoned opener Shikhar Dhawan in the third over.

"There was no swing so I looked to hit back of a length. That was my plan against Shikhar as I knew he would step out and look for the boundary. I looked to hit a hard length and find the top edge and luckily that's what happened, I looked to play with my field as well. "I try to bowl to the batter's weakness or to the ground's dimensions. The wicket and my skills are what I look at," Bhuvneshwar said. Leading the team in the absence of regular skipper Mayank Agarwal, who missed the game due to a toe injury, Dhawan said losing early wickets hurt them. "Mayank is better and he should be ready to be back. We were 30-40 runs short and lost too many early wickets which put us behind the game.