Team-wise areas of concern ahead of the second leg of IPL 2021
Teams need to work on the chinks in their armour before the tournament restarts.
3. Kolkata Knight Riders – Batting Lineup
KKR have massively underperformed thus far with just two wins out of seven games. Pretty much everyone in the team has been a disappointment thus far, but the batting has probably been their biggest problem.
None of their batsmen barring Andre Russell showed any kind of form and it’s quite obvious as to why they are 7th placed. Nitish Rana had a bright start to the tournament with two half-centuries, but he hasn’t done much since then. Shubman Gill has been in woeful form as well having scored just 132 runs.
Rahul Tripathi has gotten starts in almost every game, but he hasn’t made the most of them as he has less than 190 runs to his name. Their captain, Eoin Morgan has also failed to lead from the front with just 92 runs and Dinesh Karthik has scored 130 runs. Karthik is the only one with over 100 runs who averages more than 30 for them and this certainly has to change during the second leg.
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