Just as it seemed Mitchell Starc's challenging return to the Indian Premier League would reach a new nadir the 4.43 million-dollar man has held his nerve and avoided a horror defeat.
Starc had gone for 54 runs from 16 balls at Eden Gardens, thrashed to all parts by the IPL's bottom team, Royal Challengers Bengaluru. Needing 21 off the final over RCB's No.9 batter Karn Sharma had smacked Starc's first four balls for three sixes.
But off his fifth ball Starc took a brilliant return catch, bending his 1.97m frame low to clutch Sharma's drive. Off the sixth new batter Lockie Ferguson could only scramble a single and Starc's Kolkata Knight Riders survived to win by one run.
