Mumbai Indians (MI) played brilliantly against Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) as they defended a low score and got their first win of the Indian Premier League (IPL 2021) campaign on April 13. The leg-spinner Rahul Chahar was the pick of the bowlers as he got 4/27 in the match.

The MI bowling coach Shane Bond was extremely happy with Chahar’s performance and feels that the 21-year-old has a long way to go ahead.

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“He is doing extremely well, if you look at Rahul (Chahar), he is still incredibly young man, who has played a fair-bit of cricket and now some high-pressure cricket, and (in) finals and a key member of our team, so in terms of his development, I still think he is got a long way to go,” he said.

The former New Zealand cricketer then talked about the bowling attack MI have and role of leggie’s role in the team.

“We have got some outstanding strike bowlers to bowl in the power-play, Trent Boult, Booms (Jasprit Bumrah), and whoever compliments them, Krunal Pandya who is brilliant for us in the last game, probably slightly more defensive bowler. And Rahul is a wicket-taking bowler, you make him bowl those balls that are just too good.”

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“Example is just the powerful (balls he bowled) in the last game he bowled absolute jaffa, his role is to come and spin the ball and if the boys are around and create some pressure, it gives him opportunity to take those wickets, so that's the role we look for him to do in the team,” Bond said.

Rohit Sharma and Co. after winning the close encounter against KKR, will now be taking on David Warner’s Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) tonight (17 April) in Chennai.

(With PTI inputs)