Ajinkya Rahane
The team of Kolkata Knight Riders, defending champions for the 18th season of the Indian Premier League, will be seen playing under the leadership of new captain Ajinkya Rahane. When KKR’s team made Venkatesh Iyer a part of his team for Rs 23.75 crore in the mega auction for IPL 2025, everyone was hoping that KKR could make him captain, but when he made Rahane captain, everyone was surprised to make this decision of the franchise, now KKR team has made it clear about this, KKR team has made it clear from KKR team Had decided to make the captain.
It may not be difficult for Iyer to handle the captaincy
In his statement to ESPN Cricinfo, his CEO Venki Mysore said that IPL is a very big tournament and Venkatesh is one of our major match winners players. However, they are currently counted among young players and we have seen that as the season progresses, many challenges have to be faced. For this, we needed a captain who was quite calm and could handle things better and we had a better option for this. We did not want Venkatesh Iyer to have any extra burden.
We should not widen much when Rahane is captain
Regarding the decision to make Ajinkya Rahane the captain, Venki Mysore said that he has been playing in this T20 league since the first season, in which he has also held the responsibility of captaincy. Rahane has the experience of playing in 185 matches in the IPL and he has also played 200 matches in international cricket, so his experience is going to be very important. Everyone should not be shocked about the captain we have decided to make them. KKR’s team has to play their first match in the upcoming season on 22 March against the Royal Challengers Bangalore team at their home ground.
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