Kolkata: The first bowler to bag a hat-trick and a five-for in Bengal T20 Challenge, Ananta Saha, revealed that he had no idea that the first ball of the nineteenth over was his hat-trick ball and he only tried to bowl in the right area.
Revealing that he didn’t have any special plan for that ball Ananta said, “I didn’t know that was my hat-trick ball, I just wanted to bowl in the right length. I am glad that I got a wicket off that ball and my team won this match.”
“Feeling very happy to bag a hat-trick. Our plan was to bowl in the right areas and focus on what our strength is,” he added. The Bengal pacer picked up two crucial wickets of set Bagan big-hitter Debabrata Das and Akash Deep in the last two balls of the seventeenth over. He dismissed Prince Yadav to complete his hat-trick in the next over.
Saha, who finished with figures 5/17 added, “I always want bowl my strength which is outswinger with which I got Vivek’s wicket and I believed in my abilities. For the first two overs my plan was to swing the ball and in the last, I aimed for yorkers.”
