A goated power-hitter on the South African circuit, David Miller became another player in the Indian Premier League to have made his presence felt, especially while playing for the Kings XI Punjab. Miller owed his name to an innings of 101 off 38 balls against RCB in IPL 2013. He had an amazing IPL 2014 season rocking the carpet out of RCB once again in Bengaluru.
With a strike rate of 227.58, Miller unleashed the ball all over the M Chinnaswamy Stadium, obliterating the boundary on eight occasions and the six on three occasions. He came to bat at number four upon the foundational starts from Virender Sehwag, Mandeep Singh, and Glenn Maxwell because he took control of the RCB bowling attack to reach a daunting total of 198 for 8.
Then came the medium pace bowling of Sandeep Sharma to pick Chris Gayle and Virat Kohli for Punjab as AB de Villiers posed a big threat with 53 off 26 balls.
After his fall, the rest of the Punjab bowlers, Shivam Sharma, Mitchell Johnson, Lakshmipathy Balaji, and Axar Patel, kept their nerve to win.
Although it was Sandeep’s bowling that somewhat swung the game Punjab’s way, Miller received the Player of the Match award for that match-changing innings. Miller had a magnificent IPL 2014 season; he scored 446 runs in 16 innings at a strike rate of 149.16, and that was what took the team to theFinal.
