The crew gained two of their three titles underneath GG’s captaincy.
Hours earlier than the Chennai Tremendous Kings (CSK) vs Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) conflict within the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025, Pleasure Bhattacharjya, crew director of KKR, revealed an unheard story of the previous KKR batter Gautam Gambhir. Throughout the identical fixture at Chepauk in 2012, captain Gambhir was awarded the Participant of the Match for his 63 runs in 52 balls. However in an awesome selfless act, he refused to take the award and introduced it to Debabrata Das.
CSK vs KKR in 2012
When Dwayne Bravo dismissed the southpaw within the first ball of the penultimate over, KKR nonetheless wanted 16 runs in 11 balls to win the match. It was Das, who performed an important cameo of 11 runs in simply 4 deliveries to take Kolkata over the road. Gambhir acknowledged this brief however essential knock from Das and handed him over along with his POTM award.
“Felt good, Chennai fought nicely, our boys did a superb job limiting them to 139. We all know we’ve got numerous potential and high quality, we have to a complement one another. Das must be given the person of the match,” stated the previous KKR skipper through the post-match presentation.
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KKR additionally turned the IPL champions for the primary time that season by defeating CSK within the summit conflict. Below Gambhir’s captaincy, the crew as soon as once more lifted the silverware in 2014. KKR ended their decade-long trophy drought final season underneath Shreyas Iyer’s management, clinching their third IPL title. That point, their two-time title-winning captain returned-not on the sphere, however in a brand new function, donning the coach’s hat.
After his profitable stint with KKR, the Board of Management for Cricket in India (BCCI) elected GG as the pinnacle coach of crew India. He took cost of the from one other legendary batter Rahul Dravid in July 2024. Just lately, the Males in Blue gained the ICC Champions Trophy 2025 in Dubai.
Going again to IPL, Chandrakant Pandit is the present coach of KKR. The defending champions have had a struggling begin to their 2025 marketing campaign. They’ve managed to win solely two out of their 5 matches on this version. Ajinkya Rahane and Co. will tackle CSK at Cheapauk tonight. As Ruturaj Gaikwad is dominated out of the match resulting from an elbow fracture, MS Dhoni will lead the Tremendous Kings for the remaining season.
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