It can't have been easy for Mitchell Starc trying to live up to the billing of being Indian Premier League's 4.43 million dollar man - but the price tag won't weigh as heavy after he won key duels with his Australian pals in Kolkata's latest huge win.
Starc, the most expensive overseas recruit the IPL has ever embraced, had entered his third match for the Knight Riders having been smashed for 100 runs from eight overs in his previous two outings, going at 12-and-a-half per over without a wicket in sight.
There had even been debate among the IPL cognoscenti that Australia's premier paceman might have to suffer the indignity of being dropped if he endured another dispiriting afternoon at Visakhapatnam on Wednesday.
