Sunrisers Hyderabad speedster Umran Malik has taken everyone by surprise with his lightening fast deliveries. The 22-year-old Jammu and Kashmir player has been consistently bowling deliveries clocking 145 to 150 km per hour this IPL, impressing SRH bowling coach Dale Steyn.

In an interview with Star Sports, Dale Steyn praised the youngster for his performance this season but refrained from taking credit for his success.

“Umran is fantastic. It (his performances) is no reflection of me at all. It’s all him at the moment. He has got amazing skills, he is showing everybody, bowling 150 kph. I am kind of living through him, wishing I could do it. But it’s all him at the moment. He is certainly somebody whom we should keep an eye on for the future,” Steyn said.

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On Saturday, Malik bowled the fastest delivery in IPL history with the one clocking 153.1 km/hour against Chennai Super Kings.

However, he has leaked quite a lot of runs too — 173 in five matches so far for five wickets at an economy of 9.61.

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SRH coach Tom Moody, however, said that he is not worried and that young has been given the license “to run in and express himself” with the ball.

“At the end of the day, when you are bowling 150 kph in this format, you don’t expect you are not going to go for runs. He goes for a lot of runs behind the wicket. But it’s not like he is getting smashed down the ground or through the covers,” Moody said.

“So you have got to accept that his style of bowling, there’s going to be a higher economy to that. And his role is to run in and express himself and be himself,” the coach said at the post-match conference after his side’s seven-wicket win over Kolkata Knight Riders on Friday.

“We accept he is going to go for runs, because of the nature of how he bowls but what we want to see from him is the return in terms of wickets,” Moody added.