Corey Anderson focuses on beating India, not IPL

Corey Anderson

New Zealand swashbuckler Corey Anderson has said that he is not worried about the talks of him being the next superstar in the Indian Premier League.

Anderson stated : “There will be speculation and the auction’s coming up soon. But I am focused on this Indian series.”

The Kiwi can bat and bowl too, an ideal player to have in a team, and it will be hard for him to turn down a good IPL contract.

Teams will be hustling to sign the player after his heroics at the end of the year; when he broke Shahid Afridi‘s record of the fastest player to reach the triple figure mark in ODIs by smashing a 36-ball century against West Indies.

Anderson , who was also the man of the match in the first game against India, admitted that it will be impossible to repeat the feat again:

“When you do something like a Queenstown, you are only going to go downhill. So it was nice to come out here and put up a few runs. It was full credit to Kane and Roscoe for putting on that platform. The start makes my job and Ronchi’s job pretty easy.”

The 23-year-old southpaw maintained his good form and scored 50 off just 31 balls with some really clean hitting in the 1st ODI to help his team set a target of 292. He performed well with the ball as well by picking up 2 wickets at an economy rate of 5.10.