Kolkata Knight Riders’ (KKR) captain Eoin Morgan was excited with the side’s thumping nine-wicket win over Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB). But he remained practical, expressing the side includes a long way to go to qualify for the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2021 playoffs.
Limiting the furious RCB line-up to 92, KKR chased down the overall in 10 overs to boost their destitute net run rate. The win takes them to fifth position within the IPL 2021 points table with three wins from their eight matches.
“Very rarely do you perform as well as we have today? The talent we have within our squad counts for nothing, you have to still go out and show how strong you are, and we did today,” said Eoin Morgan
“We have a long way to go, need a lot of things to go right. Today’s the right start, need that run of confidence. We haven’t turned up for the majority of the tournament, but today was a great start.” he added
Prior to this edition, Eoin Morgan was criticized for his strategies and coming up short to reproduce his enchantment for Britain as captain of KKR. In any case, his authority was model on Monday as he didn’t permit RCB to return to the game with shrewd bowling changes.
Varun Chakravarthy
However, Eoin Morgan credited the KKR bowlers who set up the gigantic win. Varun Chakravarthy and Andre Russell picked up three wickets each, going at three an over. Prasidh Krishna got an enormous breakthrough by sending back Virat Kohli. Lockie Ferguson got two wickets and Sunil Narine went for a fair five and over in his share of four.
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