{"id":30873,"date":"2026-04-05T13:21:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T11:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=30873"},"modified":"2026-04-05T15:14:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T13:14:20","slug":"fixing-length-does-the-trick-for-rajasthan-spinner-bishnoi","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/fixing-length-does-the-trick-for-rajasthan-spinner-bishnoi\/","title":{"rendered":"Fixing length does the trick for Rajasthan spinner Bishnoi"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"x_ms-outlook-mobile-body-separator-line\">\n<div>Rajasthan Royals leg-spinner Ravi Bishnoi believes he has turned a major weakness into his strength after putting on a \u200bmatch-winning display in Saturday&#8217;s Indian Premier League (IPL) match against Gujarat \u200cTitans.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"x_ms-outlook-mobile-signature\">\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Bishnoi endured his worst IPL season last year, when he managed only nine wickets in 11 games, prompting Lucknow Super Giants to release him.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The 25-year-old went through a hard \u200bgrind to fix his length and claimed 4-41 to set up \u200bRajasthan&#8217;s six-wicket victory against Gujarat.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The 25-year-old went through a hard \u200bgrind to fix his length and claimed 4-41 to set up \u200bRajasthan&#8217;s six-wicket victory against Gujarat.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8220;Last season was difficult,&#8221; Bishnoi said\u00a0\u2060after collecting the award for player of the match at Ahmedabad&#8217;s Narendra\u00a0\u200bModi Stadium.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8220;I had one weakness, if my length was wrong, then I \u200bwas getting hit for fours and sixes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8220;I played a whole season of domestics and worked on perfecting my lengths. Hitting my lengths made it difficult for batters, when I \u200bwas too full I got hit today too.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">That method showed up in\u00a0\u200bhis impressive display.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Bishnoi deceived Sai Sudharsan and Glenn Phillips with googlies and also dismissed Washington \u200cSundar \u2060before landing the key strike of Rahul Tewatia late in the chase.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8220;All four are my favourite wickets, but Rahul&#8217;s wicket towards the end was important, since it came at that particular time,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8220;He is known to \u200bbe a finisher. If \u200bhe hadn&#8217;t gone \u2060out then the game could&#8217;ve gone any direction.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">It was a nervy win for Rajasthan with Gujarat threatening to \u200bpull off a 211-run chase.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Gujarat needed 15 runs from the \u200blast two \u2060overs with three wickets in hand, but Jofra Archer conceded only four in an excellent penultimate over and Tushar Deshpande gave away as many to \u2060thwart them.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">IPL\u00a0\u200bleaders Rajasthan are level with Delhi Capitals\u00a0\u200band Punjab Kings on four points from two matches but ahead of them on a superior\u00a0\u200bnet run rate.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":22148,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-30873","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"The 25-year-old went through a hard \u200bgrind to fix his length and claimed 4-41.","published_date":"","news_description":"The 25-year-old went through a hard \u200bgrind to fix his length and claimed 4-41.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/30873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/30873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30877,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/30873\/revisions\/30877"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=30873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}