"KORBO LORBO JEETBO", Kolkata Knight Rider seems like following
their mantra quiet well in this session. They are fantastic in this session in
all departments and they are looks like a team on a mission.
They had won seven games in a row before winning the qualifier 1 against the King XI Punjab on Wednesday. In other words, they are unbeaten in last eight games which will be booster for them in final on Sunday at M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru.
Kolkata's batting after initial struggle for finding a right opening combination and their skipper Gautam Gambhir's poor show in first few games, came out very strongly. New opening partner of skipper seems to be the reason for this change. Robin Uthappa is in good touch and his performance in last ten games says it all. He has scored 40+ score in all ten games and a total of 665 in 15 games. With that score in his kitty he is also a Orange cap holder.
Middle order which comprises of players like Manish Pandey, Yusuf Pathan, Shakib Al Hasan and Ryan ten Doeschate is also playing their parts really well. How can one forget the innings of Yusuf Pathan against Sun Riser Hyderbad, which help them to finish at second spot in league stage and allow them to play in home conditions.
May be in fielding they are not as brilliant as others team but players like Ryan ten Doeschate, Chris Lynn and Morne Morkel are always there among the top catches list of this session.
About Bowling!! What one can say about a bowling line up which has Sunil Narine and Morne Morkel in it. If one says that KKR has a best bowling line up in this year’s IPL,then he is just so right!! Three spinners, in which, one is mystery spinner(Sunil Narine), Second is left arm, who is also known as world’s top all rounder (Shakib Al Hasan) and third is leg spinner with effective googly (Piyush Chawla). Two Seamers with 140 Kmph speed and one of them is world’s leading fast bowler (Morne Morkel). You do not want any better than that in T20 cricket.
One Important reason for their success is that they keep things simple, for which a lot of credit goes to Skipper Gambhir. They are playing with simple strategy of giving bowls to their wicket taking bowlers at crucial points in a game.
In powerplay’s, Morkel bowls 3 overs and Narine one over. One over of Narine and Morkel in middle overs. Two overs of Narine in the depth overs. That what they are doing in almost all the game, they had won.
With all this armory in their teams they are the force to beat in Final.
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They had won seven games in a row before winning the qualifier 1 against the King XI Punjab on Wednesday. In other words, they are unbeaten in last eight games which will be booster for them in final on Sunday at M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru.
Kolkata's batting after initial struggle for finding a right opening combination and their skipper Gautam Gambhir's poor show in first few games, came out very strongly. New opening partner of skipper seems to be the reason for this change. Robin Uthappa is in good touch and his performance in last ten games says it all. He has scored 40+ score in all ten games and a total of 665 in 15 games. With that score in his kitty he is also a Orange cap holder.
Middle order which comprises of players like Manish Pandey, Yusuf Pathan, Shakib Al Hasan and Ryan ten Doeschate is also playing their parts really well. How can one forget the innings of Yusuf Pathan against Sun Riser Hyderbad, which help them to finish at second spot in league stage and allow them to play in home conditions.
May be in fielding they are not as brilliant as others team but players like Ryan ten Doeschate, Chris Lynn and Morne Morkel are always there among the top catches list of this session.
About Bowling!! What one can say about a bowling line up which has Sunil Narine and Morne Morkel in it. If one says that KKR has a best bowling line up in this year’s IPL,then he is just so right!! Three spinners, in which, one is mystery spinner(Sunil Narine), Second is left arm, who is also known as world’s top all rounder (Shakib Al Hasan) and third is leg spinner with effective googly (Piyush Chawla). Two Seamers with 140 Kmph speed and one of them is world’s leading fast bowler (Morne Morkel). You do not want any better than that in T20 cricket.
One Important reason for their success is that they keep things simple, for which a lot of credit goes to Skipper Gambhir. They are playing with simple strategy of giving bowls to their wicket taking bowlers at crucial points in a game.
In powerplay’s, Morkel bowls 3 overs and Narine one over. One over of Narine and Morkel in middle overs. Two overs of Narine in the depth overs. That what they are doing in almost all the game, they had won.
With all this armory in their teams they are the force to beat in Final.
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