After defeating Sunrisers Hyderabad by 80 runs at the Eden Gardens, Venkatesh Iyer has told what aggression for him and Kolkata Knight Riders. Let me tell you, Kolkata, batting first, scored 200 runs at the loss of 6 wickets in 20 overs. In response, Sunrisers Hyderabad team was reduced to 120 runs.
The vice -captains of Kolkata, who were bought by the franchise for 23.75 crores in the auction, failed in early matches. He came to 6 runs with his bat in the season opener against Bengaluru. While he scored 3 runs against Mumbai. But in the match against Hyderabad, he batted his brilliant batting and scored 60 runs on the basis of 7 fours and 3 sixes. Kolkata’s score was 106/4 in the 13th over, but after that Kolkata was successful in crossing the score of 200 on the basis of Iyer and Rinku’s innings.
Talking to reporters at the press conference after the match, Venkatesh Iyer said about the aggression, “It is very important to show positive but right intention. If we are 50/6 and I still go and hit everyone and hit everyone, it is positive, but it is not right. This is not right. The aggression does not mean sixes on every ball.”
Venkatesh Iyer further said, “This is about how you understand the circumstances and how you are able to do the circumstances in your favor. And that’s really there is aggression. We do not want to be a team that scores 250 when playing well, and when we are not playing well, we want to be out on 70 runs. Do and try to make 20 runs more than average. ”
Despite scoring a competitive score on the board, Venkatesh admitted that he was not very comfortable about it, especially against Sunrisers. He praised Vaibhav Arora for the Player of the Match Speil at Powerplay, which turned the atmosphere in his favor.
He said, “Even after scoring 220 runs, we sometimes feel that they can pursue it.” But we always knew that the team that is very aggressive is always the risk of taking wickets. We wanted to take advantage of it. We have Vaibhav Arora, who bowls in Powerplay to take wickets and they did so.
Vaibhav shook the top order of Hyderabad by dismissing the explosive Travis Head (4) and Ishaan Kishan (2) in the powerplay. He returned to attack in the middle overs and took the wicket of dangerous Henrik Klassen. Vaibhan took 3 wickets for 29 runs. Vaibhav’s influential spell prepared the basis of victory for Kolkata. Kolkata has got four points with Asana victory against Hyderabad and she has reached fifth place in the points table.
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