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Kolkata Knight Riders head coach Brendon McCullum lauded his batters intent despite crumbling to 128 all out in a three-wicket loss to Royal Challengers Bangalore but rued not having luck on his side.
On a tacky pitch with bowlers bowling short of length getting extra bounce, Kolkata’s slam-bang approach fell flat as the batters fell while trying to attack anything coming their way.
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“I actually loved the intent to be honest, I thought the intent was great. You back the fact that you are playing the extra better and you are playing a long batting lineup. You don’t anticipate getting bowled out obviously. Honestly, I felt like we didn`t have a lot of luck today. To be honest, every time we sort of went for the aggressive option, we seemed to find a fielder or things didn’t quite go our way. So that can happen sometimes as well,” said McCullum in the post-match virtual press conference.
Despite the attacking approach backfiring, McCullum wants his team to continue with the high-risk attitude. “But I want us to continue to keep that in the team because that’s what served this side so well last year. And I think you know the way we’ve set our team up with the auction, the players that we picked that suits them as well. Sometimes you get to go a little bit too hard.”
Kolkata’s bowlers did extremely well to take the match to the final over against Bangalore. But in the second half of defending 128, their star all-rounder Andre Russell’s shoulder troubles resurfaced, meaning he couldn’t complete his quota of overs. Asked about the same, McCullum said it was too high a risk to give Russell another over with the ball. Eventually, Russell bowled the final over, but Dinesh Karthik finished off the chase with back-to-back boundaries.
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McCullum signed off by saying Venkatesh Iyer will have a huge role to play in the future course of the tournament with his part-time pace. Iyer bowled the 19th over, which yielded two boundaries, making the equation for win simpler for Bangalore.
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