{"id":13086,"date":"2026-05-04T03:02:53","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T03:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/2026\/05\/04\/ipl-2026-how-anshul-kamboj-is-mastering-the-death-overs-for-chennai-super-kings-cricket-news\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T03:02:53","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T03:02:53","slug":"ipl-2026-how-anshul-kamboj-is-mastering-the-death-overs-for-chennai-super-kings-cricket-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/?p=13086","title":{"rendered":"IPL 2026: How Anshul Kamboj is mastering the death overs for Chennai Super Kings | Cricket News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-130744026,imgsize-28340,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/anshul-kamboj-0405-ipl.jpg\" alt=\"IPL 2026: How Anshul Kamboj is mastering the death overs for Chennai Super Kings\" title=\"Anshul Kamboj (Image credit: BCCI\/IPL) \" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Ta7d_ img_cptn\"><span title=\"Anshul Kamboj (Image credit: BCCI\/IPL) \">Anshul Kamboj (Image credit: BCCI\/IPL) <\/span><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>CHENNAI: <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/chennai-super-kings\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">Chennai Super Kings<\/a> are having a middling season, but medium-pacer Anshul Kamboj seems to be their breakout star. With 17 scalps in nine matches at an economy rate of 7.54, including 3-32 against Mumbai Indians on Saturday, Kamboj has been the leader of the CSK attack, both in powerplay and slog overs.<!-- --> With the wickets of Robin Minz and Hardik Pandya in the 18th and 20th overs at Chepauk on Saturday, Kamboj became the first bowler this season to claim 10 wickets in the death overs.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"5\"\/>The right-arm seamer has been treating the death overs like a closing act he had rehearsed to perfection. He has been extensively going around the stumps, especially to righthand batters, switching his lengths according to the phase of play and has landed the yorkers regularly.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"9\"\/>CSK head coach Stephen Fleming doesn\u2019t think Kamboj\u2019s heroics have come as a surprise. \u201cLast year, he was really good. He\u2019s worked hard with Eric Simons (bowling coach) around the concept of deathbowling and he has worked during the year to master that,\u201d said Fleming.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"11\"\/>Last IPL season, Kamboj picked up eight wickets in eight games at an economy of 8.00. Shortly after, he stepped onto the biggest stage, earning his India Test debut, but his returns against England weren\u2019t strong enough to secure him a long run.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"14\"\/>This season, though, he has returned with more bite and moved into a central role in CSK\u2019s pace attack after Khaleel Ahmed\u2019s injury.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"16\"\/>Fleming said Kamboj worked on angles and execution in pre-season. \u201cDuring pre-season, he bowled with open wickets and we got an understanding of the angles \u2014 what he can and can\u2019t do from certain sides of the wicket and it has worked out well,\u201d he added.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"18\"\/>India have quite a bit of cricket going ahead after IPL across formats and Kamboj\u2019s stellar show could soon push him back into the national fastbowling setup. But for Kamboj, team performance outweighs personal milestones. Ahead of the clash against MI, he had said: \u201cMy complete focus is on how to contribute to the team\u2019s win.\u201d<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"20\"\/>CSK go into must-win mode from Tuesday and the team will hope Kamboj keeps walking the talk.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"22\"\/><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/sports\/cricket\/ipl\/ipl-2026\/ipl-2026-how-anshul-kamboj-is-mastering-the-death-overs-for-chennai-super-kings\/articleshow\/130744031.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anshul Kamboj (Image credit: BCCI\/IPL) CHENNAI: Chennai Super Kings are having a middling season, but medium-pacer Anshul Kamboj seems to be their breakout star. With 17 scalps in nine matches at an economy rate of 7.54, including 3-32 against Mumbai Indians on Saturday, Kamboj has been the leader of the CSK attack, both in powerplay&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13087,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}