Junior Dala

Carl Junior Dala (born 29 December 1989) is a South African cricketer. In the 2018 South African Cricket Annual, he was named as one of the five Cricketers of the Year. Quotes personally, it was a sense of relief. It has always been a goal to play for South Africa and just getting the first one under the belt was a sense of relief and from there it was pretty much just about enjoying and my family was also there to watch me The one thing I did say to myself was, 'when I bowl to Virat, just play the batsman and not the man - Virat'. Fortunately, I had a lot of practice bowling to AB de Villiers in our domestic T20 so I always figured that if I could bowl to AB, I could bowl to anyone in the world. I just tried to bowl my best delivery to Virat on the day. South Africa have always had great fast bowlers - Alan Donald, Makhaya Ntini, Morne Morkel. Growing up, I enjoyed Morkel's bowling, he is one of my role models. And I always try to prove a point that I know I am quite short and all of that but I use that as a motivation to try and show the world that I can bowl quick despite being different, that was my motivation When I started playing first-class cricket, I just solely depended on bowling quick because I used to get away with it. But probably over the last two-three years, I started developing a lot of skills. If you look at the T20 series against India, in the first game I just tried to bowl quick but in the second and the third, I used a lot of variations, the back of the hand slower one, the off cutter and all of that there is no substitute for pace, that's one thing. And it doesn't matter what format you play, if you bowl at 140 kmph, it will always put something at the back of the batter's mind. Yes, there is importance of pace because if you look around the world, medium pacers are sort of easily lined up. However, with bowling quick, you also need to bowl smart The one thing that as a bowler you never really think of is that we never really try to enter the batter's mind. So, during our whole Ram Slam campaign, that was something AB was trying to ingrain in both myself and Ngidi. He said every time before you deliver the ball, just think what the batsman is trying to think with a certain field so always go into the batter's mind before you make up your mind on what delivery to bowl. And that has worked. That's something I tried to use with the Proteas I played my first game with Dale this season in the Ram Slam, obviously he's been around but in terms of playing, this is the first time and after the first two or three games, he sort of abused me and said I bowled quickly but I am little bit soft in terms of getting into the batter's face. 'Bowl a little bit aggressively and show that I am there to compete and not just there for them to smash me around the park.' So that aggressive nature I learnt from him. He is a very chilled guy off the field but when he has that ball in his hand, he tries to show the batters that he is there to compete and gives it his all. That's one thing I learnt from him. I have always tried to motivate myself because (when) you have failures, some people won't be around, so as long as I can have failures, I can still look at myself and be motivated. But someone like Morne Morkel, I met him for the first time when I got into the Titans and from there on he's been a big motivator for me. We have similarities in the way we bowl and we are same type of bowlers obviously he is much taller than I am but in the way we approach things we are the same so I have always tried to pick up from what he had done and how he had improved I am in the Trinidad side with some of the world's best like Brendon McCullum and Chris Lynn so I think it will be an invaluable experience bowling to those guys each and every day in the nets. It's a learning curve to see how the guys from New Zealand and Australia play their one-day cricket and most importantly my biggest goal is I want to be the best, up there in terms of the leading wicket-takers. I am not going there for experience, I am going there to show the world what I can Junior Dala interview: I figured if I could bowl to AB de Villiers, I could bowl to anyone in the world,April 2018,by Jjgah Mehta External Links Category:Cricketers from South Africa Category:Living people Category:1989 births