Every time Mitchell Starc runs in donning the Kolkata Knight Riders’ purple this season, more than his craft, it’s the mind-boggling bid of ₹24.75 crore that is discussed.
Add to it the lanky left-arm pacer’s subdued first half of the IPL season and the term “price-tag pressure” was being hurled more frequently than Starc’s accuracy with his lethal yorkers.
On Friday night, at the Wankhede Stadium, however, Starc found his mojo. Not only did he get rid of Ishan Kishan with a trademark inswinging yorker that crashed into the leg-stump but the left-armer wound up the game with three more scalps. The four-wicket spell — only his second such instance in IPL – truly marked his return to the IPL since 2015.
