India, Jan. 6 -- Kyle Jamieson runs in to bowl to a cauldron of support from the home crowd in New Chandigarh and delivers a lifter that shapes away from Virat Kohli, taking the edge to send RCB's biggest batter back to the pavilion. Jamieson and Punjab Kings, defending precious few runs in the IPL 2025 Qualifier, could not win that night, but the tall fast bowler calls it his favourite memory from battles in India.

"I remember bowling to Virat. That was really cool. Just the crowd chanting for us as the home team and that sort of thing," Jamieson told select media on the sidelines of the New Zealand team's Golf Day arranged by TCM.

Getting Indian cricket's batting superstar out and to be cheered on by an Indian crowd is unique to IPL. ...