‘Might have skinny legs but I’m quite quick’ – Morris after Samson denying him single against Punjab

The seventh league game of the 2021 IPL pitted two new captains against each other, Rishabh Pant and Sanju Samson at the Wankhede Stadium on Thursday night. While the two games before this encounter at the venue produced tons of runs and boundaries, the previous game turned out to be a low-scoring thriller.

After Samson asked the Capitals to bat, Jaydev Unadkat dismissed the entire top-order to shatter the opponents and DC could only manage to put up 147 on the board. During the chase, Rajasthan slipped too as they were reduced to 42/5 at one stage.

David Miller brought the Royals marginally back into the game, but once he was dismissed, the momentum swung again in DC’s favour. However, the Royals’ most expensive buy, Chris Morris came to the team’s rescue. Smacking an 18-ball 36, he sealed a three-wicket victory for his team.

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— Rajasthan Royals (@rajasthanroyals) April 15, 2021

People underestimate how quick I am: Chris Morris

Notably, in the Royals’ last game, Sanju Samson had denied a single to Morris, needing 5 runs off the last two deliveries. He was out caught in the deep on the last ball as Rajasthan went for a heart-breaking loss. As per many, Morris’ innings against DC was a message to the camp and skipper.

“I was gonna run back no matter what to sacrifice [my wicket] because Sanju was hitting it so sweetly. People underestimate how quick I am actually, I might have skinny legs but I am quite quick. But, look, Sanju was hitting it like a dream last night so I wouldn’t have been too upset if he had hit the last ball for a six,” said Chris Morris.

“Some guys get paid to bat and some guys get paid to slog, I know which one I am. I am a slogger that swings everything he can. You know, I play so much golf,” he added.

Speaking about the bowling performance, Morris said,

“I thought Delhi bowled really well, David played an unplayable knock. T20 cricket anything can happen in the end, fortunately, went our way today. Dew plays a part here at the Wankhede, it does start to skid on. They hit the back of a length a lot better than we did.”

In the last game, the close game, we took so much out of that as a team. Chasing 222, we know it was on good ground but it’s quite a daunting task. In fact, for us to get as close as we did on the day, we took a lot out of that first game of ours. So guys took a lot of confidence into the game, but it’s quite nice to know that we can win a game basically from anywhere after being down in the dumps. That’s T20 cricket. We’ll celebrate tonight but then back to the drawing board to fix what we did wrong today,” he concluded.