It must have been difficult for someone to believe that Jake Fraser-McGurk wasn’t a first-choice selection for an IPL team if they watched the game on Tuesday. That player, who entered the competition in lieu of Lungi Ngidi, currently holds the record for the most fifties in 20 balls in the Indian Premier League.
Even though he is only 22 years old, he has the fastest List A century off 29 balls, and he is not included in Australia’s T20 World Cup roster, despite what many people believe. However, he keeps becoming better against the white ball in the middle, and part of that may be down to some advise he just got from Ricky Ponting, his DC coach.
Fraser-McGurk said on the Willow Talk podcast, “What he’s said to me that’s really stuck with me.” “[Ponting stated] that when I swing at 80 percent rather than 100 percent, I hit the ball much farther.
All you need to do is find the midway, and it will last for six. I thought, “Well, that’s good,” since my head moves as I swing harder.
“He’s right; when I swing hard, my head moves as I practice hitting the ball. I looked at the video of every game I’ve played outside of the IPL.
“He is just someone who can pick up those little things that you’re not going to notice…it absolutely blew my mind.”
According to Fraser-McGurk, he didn’t feel like he had “earned it yet” and that his time will come, thus he was “not bothered” by the World Cup non-selection.
I wasn’t in a situation where I felt like I had earned that, so it didn’t really affect me all that much. Fraser-McGurk remarked, “World Cup cricket is very different from IPL cricket. “I’m not sure how to express how I feel about being here [in India] right now. things’s been good for things to happen so rapidly, albeit I’m not entirely sure how it happened so soon.
“We have our best opener in three formats, David Warner; Travis Head, who has been lighting it up over the last eighteen months; Mitch Marsh, who is also the captain, is the same. We’re really set there with people like Tim David, Cam Green, and others, so I can’t really see myself batting at five or six. That’s okay, in my opinion, and perhaps there will be more time for it.
How has he found the Indian Premier League? “It’s like an AFL grand final every game,” he stated. It’s simply enormous, and the vibe is wild. It’s almost loud enough, in my opinion, that playing doesn’t even annoy you. I believe that when there are 200 spectators at a Shield game, I become more anxious than when there are 75,000 in an IPL match in Ahmedabad.”
