Delhi Capitals all-rounder Kyle Jamieson has admitted that he was full of fears while bowling to Vaibhav Sooryavanshi during his team’s IPL 2026 match against Rajasthan Royals at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium in Jaipur on Friday night.
After Jamieson came on to bowl the second over, fans were on the edge of their seats, expecting some major fireworks from 15-year-old Sooryavanshi. And the left-handed batsman didn’t disappoint as he muscled the first ball he faced off Jamieson straight back past mid-off. It appeared it was going to be another bad day at the office for Delhi bowlers. Only a few days ago, they had failed to defend 264 against Punjab Kings.
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But then out of nowhere, the tall Kiwi bowler unleashed a yorker. The ball hit the toe-end of Sooryavanshi’s bat before brushing his back pad on its way to the stumps. The Jaipur crowd went silent, to all intents and purposes. Jamieson, after the match, admitted he was full of fears before bowling to Sooryavanshi.
“I don’t think I have ever been so fearful of a 15-year-old kid in my life. But, yeah, we had obviously done a bit of planning leading into the game, and it was just nice that it paid off,” he told iplt20.com after DC’s seven-wicket win.
The Starc effect!
In the previous over Mitchell Starc, playing his first IPL game this season, had accounted for Yashasvi Jaiswal. “For most teams, looking at the Rajasthan side, it’s their top-two especially, they’ve got them off to fliers. Starcy got one with the old high full joss, and I got one with the yorker, so it was nice to get away early, and sort of, I guess, stem the flow a little bit in the Powerplay,” Jamieson said.
Starc was the pick of the bowlers for Delhi Capitals. Bowling for the first time in more than three months after recovering from shoulder and elbow injuries, he impressed not a little and took the wickets of Jaiswal, Ravindra Jadeja and Riyan Parag, RR’s highest scorer with a 90.
Jamieson was effusive in praise of the Aussie left-armer. “He’s world-class, right? So whenever you have one of those guys in your side, it’s, you know, a huge benefit. He came at the right time; we sort of needed to get a bit of a move on, um, on the points table. Nice to have him in, yeah, nice to share a new ball with him. It’s pretty surreal,” he concluded.