Kolkata Knight Riders #MorganOut

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The Knights have been assembled, time to give this thread what its due... Revival!

2 times IPL winner & runners up of the last edition of the Indian Premier League, Kolkata Knight Riders have had their squad Assembled for the next generation of cricket. KKR has a rich history of entertainment, explosive batting and some spicy bowling. Its now rests on the shoulder of these Knights to take KKR to greater heights.

Assembled Squad

Batsmans

1. Shreyas Iyer
2. Ajinkya Rahane
3. Rinku Singh
4. Abhijeet Tomar
5. Pratham Singh
6. Ramesh Kumar
7. Alex Hales

All Rounders

1. Nitish Rana
2. Venkatesh Iyer
3. Aman Khan
4. Ankul Roy
5. Shivam Mavi
6. Andre Russel
7. Mohammad Nabi
8. Chamika Karunaratne

Wicket Keepers

1. Sheldon Jackson
2. Baba Indrajith
3. Sam Billings

Spin Bowlers

1. Varun Chakravarthy
2. Sunil Narine

Pace Bowlers

1. Umesh Yadav
2. Rasikh Salam
3. Ashok Sharma
4. Tim Southee

While we are definitely a little short on the Indian pace bowling department, I see Venky, Mavi playing a huge role and filling the gap this season. Perhaps we can get some Indian talent next year. I really wished we would have bought Ishant Sharma for the base price. Our spin department looks soild with Varun and Narine being our primary spinners. Nabi, Rana to add more variety while our newcomers in Aman and Ankul can hopefully be groomed to be good all rounders.

There is an apparent buzz for Ramesh Kumar who is known as Narine Jalabad! He came in for a trial with KKR and management loves his 6 hitting ability. He has not played professional cricket and has only played tennis ball cricket and has a hit 10 ball 50.

The first thing would be who will be leading the side? Do we go with a foreigner in Pat or Dre or would it be an Indian? I would personally like Iyer to captain the side as Jinx is good but I do not see him playing all the matches.

My XI would be

1. Venkatesh Iyer
2. Ajinkya Rahane
3. Nitish Rana
4. Shreyas Iyer
5. Mohammad Nabi
6. Dre Russ
7. Shivam Mavi
8. Sheldon Jackson
9. Sunil Narine
10. Pat Cummins
11. Umesh Yadav

That batting line up bats so deep. We still would have 8 bowling options. 2 spinners in Sunil and Nabi. Umm.. Probably they will have Rahane sit and Rana/Narine open to fit in Varun?

Good headache to have. Strong side, not so hyped up names and I see us doing well.

#KorboLorboJeetbo #MorganOut!

 

[Neo 7]

 

[Neo 7]

KKR will try to get Ben Stokes , if not then Colin de Grandhomme

Kagiso Rabada , Tymal Mills , Angelo Matthews

Maybe buying Rashid Khan for base price might come handy , as most batsmen find it difficult to read the leggies or Imran Tahir

Imagine with Kuldeep & Rashid/Tahir , Narine , Shakib , We would have a deadly spin-bowling lineup

 

[Saroj padhy]

Rashid can only be the backup for Narine. With the base price..
Our main priority is Seam hard hitting all rounder, and pure Pacer..
Stokes and Mills / Rabada are must buy players..

But if others go so big for stokes then they might think of Perera or Mathews.[DOUBLEPOST=1487492528][/DOUBLEPOST]Morgan and Guptill should bough as backup for Lynn.

 

[Neo 7]

Stokes and Mills/Rabada

They have to buy their backups too as most of the English & South African Players will leave the IPL in between , due to their National duty
Colin de Grandhomme & Mitchell Johnson are another that they should go for .

Main thing is that , we need to get many overseas players in the auction .
I don't understand why they released Hoggy !

 

[CerealKiller]

But if others go so big for stokes then they might think of Perera or Mathews.

Colin de Grandhomme is a better T20 player than both of them.

 

[Neo 7]

We should go for Asela Gunaratne .....

[HASHTAG]#Seriously[/HASHTAG] [HASHTAG]#NotJoking[/HASHTAG]

 

[Targaryen]

We should go for Asela Gunaratne .....

[HASHTAG]#Seriously[/HASHTAG] [HASHTAG]#NotJoking[/HASHTAG]

KKR has well balanced batting unit. They need to go for local/foreign seamers or bowling all-rounder.

 

[CerealKiller]

They should go after Stokes and Cummins/Mills.

 

[Neo 7]

They should go after Stokes and Cummins/Mills.

And also as his replacement , Colin de Grandhomme

 

[Saroj padhy]

Don't know what's going on in KKR management team's mind right now. They are not going for any players.

 

[Neo 7]

Don't know what's going on in KKR management team's mind right now. They are not going for any players.

Only Trent Boult
They just now need to get at least 2 overseas all-rounders & 1 or 2 overseas batsmen

But you never know the mind of #GG . The captain himself is present & he would decide right for this team

 

[zwarrior]

Only Trent Boult
They just now need to get at least 2 overseas all-rounders & 1 or 2 overseas batsmen

But you never know the mind of #GG . The captain himself is present & he would decide right for this team

KKR might bid for Woakes.

 

[Neo 7]

KKR might bid for Woakes.

They got him

 

[Akshay.]

KKR might bid for Woakes.

They bought him