Gujarat Titans player David Miller said he has matured as a player and understands how to deal with the failure while he had a successful season in the IPL 2022 and has scored 449 runs in 15 innings at an average of 64.14.
Gujarat Titan’s powered hitter batter David Miller said he has matured as a player and understands how to deal with the failure.
Miller had a successful season in the IPL 2022 while he scored 449 runs in 15 innings at an average of 64.14 in this IPL edition, betting his record of 446 runs when he played for Kings XI Punjab in 2014.
He is in the eighth position in the list of most run scorers this season and second for Gujarat Titans behind skipper Hardik Pandya.
“As you get older and play more cricket, you mature as a player and understand how to deal with failure and what works for you as a player. All these come with experience and I have been in the IPL for 12 years and 14 years in professional cricket. So I should know my game by now and I feel like I am in a place where I am enjoying taking on certain roles and challenges and loving being part of this successful team,”
ESPNcricinfo quoted Miller as saying.
The left-handed batter also revealed that his success against spin in this season of IPL is because of his changed mindset and hard work.
“I have never really felt like I have been a player who struggled against spin, but it is an area I had to improve and in the last three-four years, I have changed my mindset against spin,”
he said.
Miller said that he was not backed up much after the bad season of IPL 2016.
“The last four-five years in the IPL – I had a bad season in 2016 – and since then I haven’t felt back at all. It’s the nature of the IPL in the sense that there are a lot of overseas players and only four can play. So very understandable for teams to think like that,”
he said.
“I had to go back and work on my game and try and find a way to keep going. Though I felt good playing for South Africa, domestic teams in South Africa, but it’s about trying to find the gap between opportunity in a team and that’s what’s happened this season.”
Miller admitted that Gujarat Titans had backed him up as a player and that is one of the reasons for this successful season of IPL 2022.
“I have been backed all through, playing all the games and it allows you as a player to settle and to not worry about the selection, more so winning games,”
he said.
Gujarat Titans will face the Rajasthan Royals in the IPL 2022 final on Sunday.