KOLKATA: Rajat Patidar will likely be glad to be again on the Eden Gardens. It was right here, again in 2022, that Patidar’s cricketing profession modified in a single day. In a squad having gamers like Faf du Plessis, Virat Kohli and Glenn Maxwell, it was Patidar who stood tall that night time towards Lucknow Tremendous Giants within the IPL Eliminator.
Coming in to bat at No. 3, Patidar acquired his first T20 century as he set the Eden stands on fireplace, hitting 12 fours and 7 sixes to stay unbeaten on 112 off 54 balls. That by the way stays the best IPL rating at this venue.
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On Saturday, he will likely be arriving in a brand new avatar, donning the captain’s hat for the primary time for a franchise. With RCB but to win the trophy, there will likely be stress on him. However adjusting to conditions is all that counts in a fast-paced event just like the IPL.
Patidar has matured as a skipper, main Madhya Pradesh to the Syed Mushtaq Ali T20 ultimate final season and ending up because the second-highest run-getter within the event.
Relating to management, KKR can even be no completely different.
In any sport, it’s not typically that we get to see a facet parting methods with its profitable skipper. However KKR determined to stroll a special path as they launched Shreyas Iyer, who received them their third IPL trophy final yr. Additionally they misplaced their think-tank after mentor Gautam Gambhir, who was largely credited for his or her revival after back-to-back seventh-place finishes, took up the nationwide workforce’s teaching job and Abhishek Nayar and Ryan ten Doeschate additionally joined him.
Naming Ajinkya Rahane, who didn’t appear to be KKR’s first-choice participant — he was picked up within the mega public sale at his base worth, that too on the second name — as their new skipper may show to be a double-edged sword for the defending champions.
Again in KKR after 2022, Rahane is not going to solely need to rebuild a profitable method with coach Chandrakant Pandit and new mentor Dwayne Bravo, however he can even have to attain persistently to cement his place within the power-packed batting facet.
Though not a pure T20 participant, Rahane has nice credentials as a skipper. Who can neglect India’s greatest-ever abroad Check triumph underneath him on the Gabba in Jan 2021! Rahane has received all of the three ODI video games that he has captained India in and acquired one victory in two T20Is because the skipper. He additionally received the Ranji and Irani titles as skipper in 2024 and top-scored for Mumbai within the Mushtaq Ali T20 meet scoring 469 runs in eight matches at a strike fee of 164.56.
However his IPL document just isn’t that encouraging. Captaining a facet (RR) final within the IPL in 2019, he received simply 9 of the 25 matches. For the skippers, there’s a lot to play for on this IPL.
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