Rinku Singh emerged as an excellent finisher along with his aggressive batting and Venkatesh Iyer’s feat of turning into solely the second KKR batter to attain IPL century are the some few brilliant spots. Brendon McCullum was the primary to hit a century when he smashed 158 within the first-ever IPL match again in 2008.
KKR aggressive batter Jason Roy admitted it has been a troublesome first half for the two-time Indian Premier League winners, urging them to “draw a line in the sand” and hold pushing laborious.
KKR will face Royal Challengers Bangalore in Bengaluru on Wednesday, whom they’d crushed by 81 runs of their earlier meet earlier this season.
“The talk in the camp is to just keep pushing hard, we got to enjoy ourselves. It is very easy in cricket, especially in short formats to lose and (resultantly) lose a lot of confidence,” Roy informed the media throughout his pre-match press convention right here.
“We are trying to keep the confidence high, smile in the change room, making sure our methods do not change too much. As individuals we need to look in the mirror, get better each session and think how we can individually impact the game in a better way. We have had some good individual performances along the losses, which is a bit of positive, but a loss is a loss,” he stated.
“We got to draw a line in the sand now that the half of the tournament is done for us and we just got to push forward,” Roy added.
Roy, who smacked a 26-ball 61 with 5 sixes and as many fours in opposition to Chennai Super Kings batting at No 5, stated that he wished to open however couldn’t, owing to the foundations since he had left the sector in the course of the first half.
“I left the field for 12 minutes at the end of our innings so I was not able to bat for further 12 minutes when our innings started, and it just so happened that we lost those wickets when we did.
“It is simply the foundations of the sport, sadly. There was no cause behind it, I actually wished to open and I used to be pushing my case to open on that wicket, and needed to attempt to do the job within the middle-order,” he said.
Roy refused to read much into KKR’s struggles in the powerplay, having consistently lost wickets at the start.
“The guys are coaching, working hardest to be one of the best model of them. There is not any cause behind it; it’s simply the way in which cricket goes typically,” he said.
The right-handed English batter said he is not looking too far ahead at the World Cup later this year and is focussed on the IPL for now.
“With the 50-over World Cup on the finish of the yr, I’ve performed fairly a little bit of cricket within the subcontinent. I’m simply excited to maintain pushing for the remainder of the match (IPL) as a result of we’ve got had a troublesome begin; there is no such thing as a hiding (from) that. It is (going to be) an enormous second half for us,” he said.
(With PTI Inputs)
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com