David Miller, who was not a sure starter in the playing eleven for his previous two IPL teams, is loving being “100 percent backed” by Gujarat Titans.
Miller smashed a 51-ball 94 to help Gujarat Titans pull off an incredible come-from-behind three-wicket win over Chennai Super Kings on Sunday night.
The South African played a game-changing knock in the IPL after a long time.
The last two-three-four years I have been playing really nice cricket, feeling positive and I have been scoring nice personally, back at home, overseas, and so on, unfortunately the last four-five years, I haven’t really played as much IPL cricket as I would have liked to,” he said at the post-match media interaction.
“… the nature of the game, tournament (is such that) there are only four overseas (players) and other overseas players are always going to miss out and I sort of found myself in between a place where I have been in and out of Kings XI (Punjab Kings) and then Rajasthan.
“I played some decent games there but I felt like I couldn’t get going and it has been encouraging to be part of Gujarat Titans and just know I am 100 per cent backed, and have a really nice environment, enjoy each other’s success, that goes a long way in doing well, but more importantly it is nice to play every game.” He started the innings pretty well and did not want to stop after that.
“Yes, I mean we were obviously in a little bit of trouble, but I still thought, if we batted 20 overs, we still had some sort of chance and you never know if you were sitting on the sideline.