3 Cricketers who could have been a better choice than Ajinkya Rahane for KKR captaincy

2. Manish Pandey

Manish Pandey has been with KKR for a long time. He was the Player of the Final when the Knights won the IPL for the second time in 2014. Pandey knows the management and its policies quite well. He is also accustomed to the dressing room environment and shares a healthy relationship with the stakeholders of the franchise.

While he has had a dismal outing with the bat in domestic cricket this season, even being dropped from the Karnataka team during the Vijay Hazare Trophy and the latter half of the Ranji Trophy, Pandey's experience would have come in handy. He played just one game last season for KKR and contributed with a crucial 42 off 31 balls.