MI vs KKR, IPL 2022: After the win over Mumbai Indians on Monday, Kolkata Knight Riders skipper Shreyas Iyer said that the team "CEO is also involved in team selection"
- Vishesh Roy
Kolkata Knight Riders returned to winning ways after defeating Mumbai
Indians by 52 runs at Dr DY Patil Sports Academy on Monday to move to seventh
place in the IPL points table. Pat Cummins returned
with three wickets after KKR posted 165 for nine. After the win, KKR
skipper Shreyas Iyer revealed
how difficult it is to tell the players that they are not a part of the playing
XI and he also said that the "CEO (Venky Mysore) is involved in team
selection".
"It is really difficult because I was also in that position once
when I started playing the IPL. We discussed with the coaches and obviously,
the CEO is also involved in team selection so especially, Baz (Brendon McCullum),
he goes to the players and tells them. To be honest, all of them are very
supportive in the decision making and the way they turn up to the ground and
support each and every individual, it is something to be proud of as captain
and I am really happy with how we played today," Iyer said at the
post-match presentation.
Talking about the win against Mumbai Indians, Iyer said: "Yeah,
definitely. If you see the matches we lost previously, especially the last
game, we lost by a big margin and coming back, winning by a margin is really
satisfying and that's what we were looking for. We obviously got a great start
in the powerplay and from there on, Nitish came on, he took some time at the
start but the way he hit sixes off Pollard, he saw that was the right over to
take on and he did that."
"But I personally felt that it was difficult for the new batters to
come in and keep going. They needed few balls to get set and once you know how
the wicket is playing, you can easily capitalise so today, I felt, that was the
chat we had," he added.
Batting first, KKR posted 165/9 in 20 overs. Venkatesh Iyer and Nitish Rana scored
43 runs each. At one stage, KKR were cruising at 123/2 in the 13th over, but
from there on, Jasprit Bumrah wreaked
havoc as he went on to register his best bowling figures in the IPL -- 5/10.
No Mumbai Indians batter was able to stay at the crease for the long
haul, and in the end, they were bundled out for 113. Cummins took three wickets
while Andre Russell took
two.
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