New Delhi: Delhi Capitals left-arm wrist spinner Kuldeep Yadav, who returned match-winning figures of 2/25 against Rajasthan Royals, said his bowling approach to Donovan Ferreira was crucial to his team's 20-run chase in the IP here on Tuesday. It was the key to victory. ,

Kuldeep almost ended Rajasthan Royals' hopes of chasing the target of 222 runs by giving two blows in the crucial 18th over.

Rajasthan needed 41 runs in the last three overs and South Africa's big hitter Ferreira was present at the crease but Kuldeep dismissed him on the very first ball of his last over.

"I have played against him (Ferreira) in South Africa and I knew he was a backfoot player and wanted to be a bit full and fast and got him out on the first ball," Kuldeep said in his presentation after being named Player of the Year. Said at the ceremony. -Match."It is very important to bowl a good length and that is the main challenge when I bowl in the death overs. I bowled some seam-up balls to know what the batsmen are doing. For me the only thing that matters is the length and That was the plan," he said.

Bowling in the death overs was a matter of concern for DC but captain Rishabh Pant was happy after Tuesday's performance.

Pant said, “As always, Kuldeep performed well.The way our bowlers performed at the last end was the main positive and it was really good to see. We will try to learn from every match."

We gave 10 extra runs: Samson

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Rajasthan Royals captain Sanju Samson said Tristan Stubbs' 20-ball 41 in the death overs proved to be the difference as he gave away "10 extra runs".

“It was in our hands, it was like 11-12 runs per over, it was achievable, but these things happen in the IPL.

Samson said, there were 10 runs extra to chase 220 runs, if we had hit fewer boundaries we would have achieved it.