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Shreyas Iyer Injury: Players who can replace Shreyas Iyer as captain of the Kolkata Knight Riders.
Shreyas Iyer Injury: The Kolkata Knight Riders team got some bad news about their Captain Shreyas Iyer who picked up a back injury during the 4th Test Match of the Boarder-Gavaskar trophy. Australia won the toss and elected to bat first. Travis Head and Usman Khawaja gave a good start to the team to having fifty run opening partnership.
Usman Khawaja scored 180 runs in 422 balls ,and Cameron Green also scored 114 runs in 170 balls and helped his team to post a total of 480 runs in 1st innings. Indian openers Rohit Sharma and Shubhman Gill had a fifty-run partnership, but in the 20th over, Rohit Sharma gave a soft catch to Marnus Labuschagne, bowled by Matthew Kuhnemann. Gill was able to score a century ,and then the long-awaited test century came from Virat Kohli, who scored 186 runs. Axar Patel and Srikar Bharat also contributed to the team by posting a total of 571 ,but the bad news came out when Shreyas Iyer didn’t show up at number 4. On the 4th day, BCCI gave a statement about Shreyas Iyer’s injury news, “Shreyas Iyer will take no further part in this Test. A specialist opinion will be sought,” the match came to a rare draw result. India won the series by 2-1 and retained the Boarder Gavaskar trophy.
Shreyas Iyer came from an injury in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy ,but again, he had an issue with his back. He is one of the important batsmen for Team Indian Cricket for the upcoming 50-Over Worldcup in India, and BCCI doesn’t wanna take any risks with Shreyas Iyer ,so they told him to take a rest from the first phase of the Indian Premier League. This created a big concern for the Kolkata Knight Riders’ side as he was picked last year by Kolkata Knight Riders to lead the team.
Shreyas Iyer was also not picked for the ODI series against Australia which started on March 17th and in the past was not a part of a team in the ODI series against New Zealand because of his back injury. He did not have a great 4 innings he played against Australia in the 2nd and 3rd tests in which he only managed to score 42 runs ,which is below average.
Kolkata Knight Riders have to choose someone for the captaincy role and here are some players who can replace Shreyas Iyer as the Kolkata Knight Riders captain.
Check out the Kolkata Knight Riders team overview – https://crpatinews.info/cricket/kkr-ipl-2023-kolkata-knight-riders-strengths-weakness-schedule-and-full-squad-of-ipl-2023/
You can also check the schedule of the IPL- https://crpatinews.info/cricket/ipl-2023-schedule-ipl-schedule-of-2023-teams-venues-timing-of-matches/
Players who can be the Captain of Kolkata Knight Riders
1- Sunil Narine
Sunil Philip Narine is one of the core team members of the Kolkata Knight Riders team and since his debut in the 2012 season of the Indian Premier League (IPL). He Has been the main player for Kolkata Knight Riders. He won the IPL trophy with the team two times first was in his debut season in 2012 and the other one was in 2014.
Sunil Narine also plays in Caribbean Premier League for the Trinbago Knight Riders and also in Abu Dhabi Knight Riders. Both are the Kolkata Knight Riders, a franchise team in which most of the same players play. There is a solid reason why Sunil Narine is one of the contenders for the Kolkata Knight Riders temporary captaincy choice.
He has All-Round skills through which he can lead the team from the front and then he is one of the most experienced guys on the team who knows all about the team and most of the players. He has a cool and calm personality which will help the team in pressure situations. He knows what it takes to be the champion, as he has already been part of the 2012 and 2014 IPL season-winning teams.
2- Nitish Rana
Nitish Rana is one of the few Indian cricketers who has been a core member of the Kolkata Knight Riders team and one of the unsung players who helped the team many times to win the match. He is the only Indian who can replace Shreyas Iyer as the Captain of the Kolkata Knight Riders.
Nitish Rana debuted for the Mumbai Indians team but soon was not able to find his spot in the playing XI and was released by Mumbai Indians. Kolkata Knight Riders then brought him for 80 Lakhs in the 2018 Indian Premier League Auction and after that, he became the core part of the team in his first season for KKR. He scored 304 runs in 15 matches and also picked 4 wickets for them as a part-time spin bowler.
Nitish Rana has the experience to lead the Delhi state team as a captain and can be a great option for the Kolkata Knight Riders side to give him the captaincy until Shreyas Iyer returns.
3-Andre Russell–
He has been one of the core players of the Kolkata Knight Riders squads and can be a great option as a captain because of his knowledge about the team and his All-Round skill. He is also one of the top players in T20 who played all around the world T20 league and bowlers are feared by him.
The major concern with him is his fitness and injuries. He is one of the most injury-prone players, and it’s impossible to make him play all 16+ matches in the league but still, he is in contention to become a captain for Kolkata Knight Riders.
Andre Russell is one of the most dangerous hard-hitting batsmen and also one of the great death bowling option All-Rounder in the IPL. He made his team win many matches, which everyone thought was out of reach.
4- Shakib Al Hasan
The Kolkata Knight Riders signed Shakib Al Hasan for the 1.5 Crore at the IPL auction that was held in December 2022. He played for the Kolkata Knight Riders in 2012 and 2014, in which Kolkata Knight Riders won the IPL title. He is a world-class All-Rounder and also captain for his national side Bangladesh who recently whitewashed England in the T20 series in Bangladesh by 3-0. He has the third most player of the tournament awards in all formats.
Shakib already has the captaincy experience and skill to lead his national side and also Dhaka Dynamites in Bangladesh Premier League. He played for Kolkata Knight Riders before from 2011-2017 but was not the regular featured player on the team. He is one of the complete All-Rounder in the world and can be a great option for the Kolkata side to give him Captaincy.
