Kolkata: KKR thought they would punch their ticket to the playoffs by winning five matches in a row at home. But despite performing well in the away match, the Knights lost their rhythm when they came to Eden. Lost 3 out of last 5 matches. Two of them are at home. Not just a loss, they lost by 223 runs against Rajasthan and 261 runs against Punjab Kings. Currently, KKR’s bowling line-up is looking utterly bereft. The only exception is Sunil Narine.
Starting the season with a hat-trick of wins, but the current situation and a few matches here and there, the fight to get to the playoffs will be very difficult. This is the situation on Monday at home to KKR’s opponent Delhi Capitals. The Delhi that the Knights scored 272 against Delhi in the first leg is no more. Rishabh Pant’s team has won 4 of the last 5 matches and climbed to the fifth place in the league table.
KKR’s next two matches are against Delhi and Mumbai. So the Knights looked forward to the face-to-face meeting between these two teams on Saturday. Delhi batted first and scored 257 runs, Mumbai also reached 247 in reply. As a result, the current situation of this team’s batting and their own bowling has increased the concern of the KKR team management before going down against Delhi Capitals.
However, KKR coach Chandrakant Pandit gave a pep talk to the team to learn from the loss against Punjab. They talked about believing in themselves and standing by each other. The KKR coach also said that this team can bounce back by playing good cricket. The players are also determined to turn around. There is no shortage of practice.
The KKR camp has no worries about batting ahead of Delhi. As much thought about bowling. Also to see what the combination will be. Starc can recover from injury and return against Delhi. But all but Narine bowled badly against Delhi. So many changes are neither possible nor correct. Gautam Gambhir is trying to stand up with whatever power he has.
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It remains to be seen if there is any change in the wickets in Delhi’s match at home. Because earlier Eden’s wicket had the help of spinners. This highscoring match is happening because of the full wicket. As a result, before the Delhi match, the character of the pitch will be changed to see if KKR will be helped. KKR is making a strategy to beat Delhi with spin weapons. Knights are thinking of nothing but victory in the prestige fight against Sourav Ganguly’s team at home.
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