Ajinkya Rahane Blames This KKR Participant For DRS Non-Evaluation In IPL 2025 Thrashing In opposition to Punjab Kings
He scored a run-a-ball 17 final night time.
The Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) captain Ajinkya Rahane revealed that there was turmoil concerning his dismissal between the teenager Angkrish Raghuvanshi and himself, towards Punjab Kings (PBKS) within the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025. Within the fourth ball of the eighth over, he missed the slog sweep to Yuzvendra Chahal and the ball hit him on the pad.
The 20-year-old, from the non-striker finish, couldn’t assist him resolve whether or not to assessment the umpire’s resolution of out or not. The KKR skipper selected to save lots of the DRS for the upcoming batters.
Ajinkya Rahane rues lack of clear communication with Angkrish Raghuvanshi
“As a batter, I assumed that I might save the assessment for later. It shouldn’t occur that I take a assessment and lose it, then we’re solely left with one assessment. The communication between the 2 batsmen [him and Raghuvanshi] wasn’t that clear. If somebody clearly tells you that the affect might be out or it could miss, you’re taking a assessment as a batter,” he mentioned within the post-match press conference.
Rahane attributed Raghuvanshi’s confusion to his lack of wicket. Nevertheless, the KKR captain refused to complain about it and acknowledged their poor batting efficiency as the primary purpose behind their embarrassing loss towards Punjab.
“However typically, the batsmen in entrance of you, you consider what they are saying. The communication wasn’t that clear: ‘Perhaps it may very well be the umpire’s name, perhaps it may very well be hitting.’ That’s why I didn’t take a assessment. However once more, no complaints. Aside from that, we additionally had been fairly unhealthy as a batting unit. And that was the explanation we misplaced at this time,” he acknowledged.
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The defending champions began off the match brilliantly. After profitable the toss in Mullanpur, KKR’s former title-winning skipper Shreyas Iyer, who’s main the PBKS this season, opted to bat first. However a collective effort from the KKR bowlers bundled out them for simply 111 runs in 15.3 overs. Harshit Rana scalped three wickets whereas the spin duo of Varun Chakravarthy and Sunil Narine bagged two every. Vaibhav Arora and Anrich Nortje took one apiece.
Nevertheless, the simple chase proved to be a lot more durable for the Knights. The pair of Rahane and Raghuvanshi had constructed a small partnership after two fast wickets of Narine and Quinton de Kock within the preliminary stage. However the KKR suffered a collapse of their batting lineup after skipper Rahane’s dismissal.
The center-order batters together with Venkatesh Iyer, Ramandeep Singh, Rinku Singh and Andre Russell didn’t placed on a battle in a low-scoring thriller. Although Russell hit two sixes and a boundary to Chahal within the 14th over, he couldn’t take his crew over the road. Marco Jansen bowled him over when KKR wanted simply 17 runs from 30 balls.
The earlier version winners have managed to win alternate matches to date on this IPL 2025. With 4 losses and three wins, they’re at the moment in sixth place within the factors desk. The Males in Purple will play towards Gujarat Titans on the Eden Gardens on April 21.
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