KKR’s ‘Super Missile’ this year had a havoc in the title win last year
New Delhi:
King Khan’s Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) did not know what happened this year. What went to Mantor Gautam Gambhir, who won the title last year, as if everything was shattered. Gautam prepared a ‘missile’ in the previous season, which made the champion champions by freeing sixes of the opposing teams, but this year, what happened this missile tany-tany fisses that the team’s conditions are also disturbed. Gautam turned to Puchalle Sunil Naren from Puchalle to an opener last year and replaced him into such a dangerous ‘opening missile’, that all the opposing bowlers dried up, but this year the management fitted the dickock instead of the salt, as if the ‘opening missile’ could not be done. And when you look at these figures, you will know how bad the situation is
No solid start
This year, how badly the KKR’s opening pair flopped, you understand that the openers can add only 220 runs in 11 innings. This run number is the lowest in all teams, then the average of only 22 is also the worst among all teams. At the same time, the run rate has been 9.16 of the opening pair, which is the fourth lowest. The best partnership is 46 runs. At the same time, the management once tried Dickock with Naren, so now Afghani Rahmanullah is being fed, but the situation remains the same. And if KKR is currently at number seven in the points table, then the failure of the opening pair in it is a big reason.
Last year created a boom
If KKR became the champion last year, then the performance of the opening pair emerged as the biggest reason. Then Sunil Naren and Phil Soult scored 559 runs in 12 matches at an average of 46.58. The best partnership was 138 runs, while the run rate was 12.46, which is enough to tell how badly the ‘Opening Missile’ ruined the bowlers. In 12 innings, both openers played a century, 5 half -century partnership.
