Shreyas Iyer on KKR Defeat: Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) and Lucknow Tremendous Giants (LSG) had been head to head within the IPL on Saturday evening. On this match, Lucknow defeated Kolkata by an enormous margin of 75 runs. KKR’s playoff possibilities have weakened after this defeat. After the match, when captain Shreyas Iyer was requested the rationale for the defeat, he identified the weak efficiency of the workforce within the powerplay and dying overs.
Shreyas Iyer stated, ‘Lucknow’s workforce dominated us in each the bowling and batting areas. He bowled brilliantly within the powerplay. He began effectively in batting too. Throughout Lucknow’s batting, we did come again within the center overs however within the dying overs he once more took the match away from us. Powerplay and dying overs are the areas the place we have to enhance. Hopefully, within the subsequent match, we’ll overcome these shortcomings.
Shreyas Iyer additional stated, ‘It was not really easy to learn the wicket. So we selected to bowl first. We discovered that the balls are coming to a halt and there are two varieties of tempo on the pitch. A rating of 155-160 runs on this pitch is so much however Lucknow created issues for us by scoring extra runs than this.
KKR at eighth place within the factors desk
Batting first, Lucknow scored 176 runs due to the innings of Quinton de Kock (50), Deepak Hooda (41) and Marcus Stoinis (28). In response, Kolkata had a really poor begin. Kolkata misplaced 4 wickets for 25 runs. Andre Russell, the one one from KKR, batted strongly. He performed a fast innings of 45 runs in 19 balls. Regardless of this innings of Russell, KKR had been all out for 101 runs. The workforce of KKR is current within the eighth place within the IPL factors desk.
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