“It’s everything’s about the process. The way I’m going about things at the moment is extremely positive. I’ve been here a long time now and I’ve been practicing well and it’s a matter of time before something comes together,” he stated on the post-match press convention.
KKR have gotten a vaunted batting line-up, however it has faltered in three matches thus far within the league, though the group got here shut in opposition to CSK.
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In the high-scoring recreation, CSK posted 220/3 in 20 overs after which managed to bowl out KKR for 202, after Morgan’s group was reeling at 31 for 5 contained in the powerplay.
“We have a very deep batting line-up, and it’s one of our strengths and we are very experienced in that middle and lower middle-order, and today we saw that.”
A fantastic rally, led by Andre Russell, Pat Cummins and Dinesh Karthik, helped KKR go previous 200 however not the stiff victory goal of 221.
Morgan stated he’s happy with the sturdy comeback by his group.
“We have to be proud of getting so close, and actually putting ourselves in a winning position. Particularly, Pat Cummins towards the end played beautiful,” Morgan stated.
“It really did flip things right in our favour, but obviously, having made those five mistakes earlier did cost us.”
For KKR, the change of venue didn’t change their fortunes as their bowlers leaked loads of runs after Morgan opted to area.
Morgan had made two adjustments in his bowling assault, bringing in rookie pacer Kamalesh Nagarkoti rather than Harbhajan Singh, whereas Sunil Narine performed his first recreation of the season changing Shakib-Al-Hasan.
While Narine returned figures of 1/34 from his 4 overs, Nagarkoti conceded 25 runs from his two overs. But it was their star pacer Cummins who was the costliest among the many lot because the Aussie gave away 58 runs from his 4 overs, whereas Russell’s two overs went for 27 runs with one wicket on the dying.
But Morgan stated the bowlers did an inexpensive job.
“I think today, upon reflection after both sides have been batted, they did a reasonable job. When you look at the position that we were in from the powerplay onward, and only falling 20 runs short.
“You don’t have to be an optimist to think that we would have been in a good position if we had batted better at the top of the order,” he signed off.
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