Over number ten, 37 runs are required from 18 balls. Bhuvneshwar Kumar is handed the ball. David Warner wants one of Manish Pandey or Yusuf Pathan to take the walk back to the pavilion. Bhuvneshwar Kumar marked his run up, let off a huge breath and geared himself to bowl. At the end of six deliveries, he had given away just five runs. Kumar walked back to his fielding position at the boundary ropes and got a huge cheer for his commendable effort with the ball. He wants to wave to the crowd and acknowledge their applause but a job at hand makes him refrain from doing so. He then watched his bowling idol Praveen Kumar bowl a champion penultimate over giving away just seven runs. Kumar had 25 runs to defend in the final over and as he walked back to bowl the final over, he had confidence beaming in his eyes. He knew the job had been done and the Sunrisers’ first win at home was on the cards. It went according to script and in the end the home team registered a win by 16 runs in a rain curtailed match. The crowd at Visakhapatham was caught in a frenzy, David Warner had an aggressive fist pump; he knew the value of the win and Bhuvneshwar Kumar walked back with loads of pats on the back and a sense of appreciation from his captain and coach. It was indeed job well done. Here’s Bhuvneshwar Kumar talking about nerves, his idol Praveen Kumar and his side’s first victory at Vizag in a chat with iplt20.com. A win at home finally should give the side great satisfaction. Yes, it gives immense pleasure to have sealed a win at Vizag. The crowd has been really supportive. When you play your games at home, you would want such backing and support from the crowd. Going into the game we hadn’t won anything here and in a way we wanted to end Vizag on a high. It is always important to win home games and it is wins like these that boost the morale of the team to go ahead and qualify in the top four. We just wanted to win our final game desperately and I am happy we could do that. This win will give us good momentum in the games to come. Does the psyche of a bowler change when the conditions are revised? Does it put a spanner on the bowling plans that were devised before? I don’t think so. It wasn’t very difficult to adjust to the game condition. In a way it was good that it started raining exactly before we came out to bowl instead of raining midway through our bowling. It was good to get 12 overs at a stretch. Our main focus was to switch on and focus on defending 118. It was slightly difficult with regards to the ground being wet and the ball getting wet at times. Keeping those things in mind our bowling performance was commendable. Dale Steyn started off with a tight over and towards the latter half of the innings Praveen Kumar bowled like a champion. I am glad I could back up their good performances and help the team register a win. What was David Warner and the team management’s message to the team while defending the target? The message from the dressing room was clear – “Pick wickets guys, don’t worry about the runs. It is the wickets that will win you the match.” We were just confident that if we bowled at the right areas we would win. When we came out to bowl we got a good rhythm going, unfortunately there were a few catches that got dropped. Such things happen and we have to let go of it. I would say Ravi Bopara getting Andre Russell’s wicket in his over was crucial. Russell was going berserk and to get his wicket at that time was really important. It was one of the important overs of the match. We knew Kolkata Knight Riders had a lot of power hitters in their ranks; but we never dwelled too much on it. Our main plan was to pick up wickets. If you pick up wickets consistently, the runs don’t come easy irrespective of the batsman. We knew if we didn’t pick up wickets, they would have a good chance of chasing it. How good was Praveen Kumar’s penultimate over? Just seven runs came off it? Me defending the target in the final over became easy only because Praveen Kumar bowled that second-last over brilliantly. It was almost like a match-deciding over. Because of that I had a lot of runs to play with in the final over. When I looked at the scoreboard and saw that I had to defend 25, I got a boost in my confidence. 25 runs is a lot in the final over and you always back yourself to defend it. I am learning a lot from Praveen Kumar. This is a perfect platform for me to chew his brains and observe how he bowls at certain times. What kind of areas did you try to hit in your second over? You gave away just five runs. That is pretty miserly. I wanted to hit the block hole more often than not in that over. I knew it is not easy to score runs when you land the ball perfectly in that area. It was also important to have variations in your deliveries while bowling in those areas. The key was not to get predictable but vary the pace. We, as a unit, wanted to bowl with a lot of commitment and we have done exactly that. We were pumped up like never before to win here. You have often been asked to bowl at crucial junctures of the match. Do you get nervous at all at those times? I relish these kinds of match situations. You can’t call it nervousness but you can term it as anticipation where you think in your mind as to what will happen next. There is this feeling inside you that you have to perform for the team and seal a victory for your team and I experience just that. Final over of the match, you have two clean strikers of the ball in Yusuf Pathan and Manish Pandey. As a bowler, does the reputation of the batsmen matter to you while bowling? There was no thought about the batsman I was bowling to. My whole focus had boiled down to executing my plans to perfection. As a bowler you normally tend to think who you are bowling to, but I feel it is a kind of positive for me that I don’t focus on the batsman, I focus on executing the skill. How has your new captain David Warner been so far? Unfortunately we haven’t won a lot of matches but David Warner’s captaincy has been brilliant. He is very shrewd in his processes. He consults the bowlers about their plans, field placements, etc. which always helps as a bowler. He is a very supportive captain.