The Kolkata Knight Riders are in excellent form, especially with the bat. The team has scored 3 points out of 200+ outings, 2 of which came at the Eden Gardens. Sunil Narine and Phil Salt form an explosive opening pair and are also the team’s top two performers. Narine has been the standout player for KKR, smashing half-centuries and centuries in his last 4 innings, and actively competing for the Orange Cap. One area KKR needs to work on is the performance of their middle-order batsmen. Despite promising starts, Shreyas Iyer, Ankush Raghuvanshi, and Venkatesh Iyer have failed to deliver significant results. KKR can take solace in having two top finishers with the bat – Andre Russell and Rinku Singh. Bowling is another area KKR will need to address. Bowlers failed to defend a mammoth total of 223 runs in the last match, which is simply unacceptable. Except for Narine, all bowlers have an economy rate of over 9 runs per over. Therefore, they need to be more disciplined in terms of line and length in this match.
The Kolkata Knight Riders are in excellent form, especially with the bat. The team has scored 3 points out of 200+ outings, 2 of which came at the Eden Gardens. Sunil Narine and Phil Salt form an explosive opening pair and are also the team’s top two performers. Narine has been the standout player for KKR, smashing half-centuries and centuries in his last 4 innings, and actively competing for the Orange Cap. One area KKR needs to work on is the performance of their middle-order batsmen. Despite promising starts, Shreyas Iyer, Ankush Raghuvanshi, and Venkatesh Iyer have failed to deliver significant results. KKR can take solace in having two top finishers with the bat – Andre Russell and Rinku Singh. Bowling is another area KKR will need to address. Bowlers failed to defend a mammoth total of 223 runs in the last match, which is simply unacceptable. Except for Narine, all bowlers have an economy rate of over 9 runs per over. Therefore, they need to be more disciplined in terms of line and length in this match.
