New Zealand all-rounder Kyle Jamieson contradicted his Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) teammate Dan Christian’s story of him refusing to bowl to captain Virat Kohli in RCB nets during IPL 2021 with the Dukes’ ball and said it was just Christian adding some stuff to it.
Jamieson was the star of New Zealand’s World Test Championship (WTC 2021) final win, with seven wickets to his name, and was picked as the Player of the Match as well, including the prized wicket of India skipper Virat Kohli in both innings.
Australian all-rounder Daniel Christian narrated the controversial story of Jamieson and Kohli in an conversation during a net session for the RCB team in the first half of the IPL 2021. He had said that Kohli had asked the Kiwi pacer to bowl at him with the Dukes' ball in the nets and Jamieson refused the captain’s offer.
Reacting to the whole episode, Jamieson refuted Christian’s account and said that the veteran all-rounder added some made-up stuff to make the story stimulating.
“No, it wasn’t so much him asking. I think it was Dan just sort of adding some stuff for a good story. We were just talking about it at the start of the IPL with the cricket coming up with our UK tour and theirs as well and I mentioned that I had some Dukes' balls, he had some Dukes balls as well,” Jamieson said in a conversation with Sporting News.
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“He just said look at the back end if we want to do some training, we’ll do that but there was no specificity around me bowing to him or, or giving him a look, but whether he was insinuating something that’s something he could tell you but obviously quite a funny story that’s unfolded,” he added.
The two competitors will be teammates again when the IPL 2021 resumes in September in the UAE. RCB have won five of their seven games and are on the 3rd spot in the points table.
