Kolkata Knight Riders on Monday took a major decision to drop one of their retained players ahead of the auction of Venkatesh Iyer for their game against Rajasthan Royals at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai as they are expected to play five matches. We will break the losing streak and retain our chances. Qualifying for the playoffs continues. In fact, KKR removed their other retained player Varun Chakraborty in their last game and fans on Twitter were in the mood to remind how the KKR management went wrong this season, despite the team’s performance in the IPL. Got off to a good start. 2022 under the new leadership of Shreyas Iyer.
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Venkatesh Iyer, who dreamed of a 2021 season that saw him skyrocket in the Indian T20I side and make a strong claim to be in the scheme of things for India’s 2022 T20 World Cup squad, has had a poor 2022 season so far Is. In nine matches, Iyer has managed only 132 runs at an average of 16.50 and strike rate of 97.78. Iyer scored 370 runs in ten matches in 2021 at an average of 41.11 at a strike rate of 128.47. Chakraborty too has failed this season with just four wickets in the right matches at an average of 61.75 and an economy of 8.82. In the 2020 and 2021 seasons, the spinner took 17 and 18 wickets at 20.94 and 24.88.
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Fans expressed their dismay at the KKR management on Twitter after his drop out a few evenings made Iyer feel the same way about how Kuldeep Yadav was sidelined a few years back after a tough season with the team.
sad to see @venkateshyer removed from the team. He was never given a chance to bowl. He could be very effective on sticky pitches. – sahariprasad2000 (@sahariprasad201) 2 May 2022
This is not right @venkateshyer Why didn’t he play well, but last season it was this guy who took his team to the finals – Mudassir (@mudassir77923576) 2 May 2022
Last year it was Venky Iyer who played the key role and changed the fortunes of top-order struggling KKR and took them to the finals and now you have let them down for a rare failure. Shame on you….KKR. You guys deserve to be last this season- Ashok Kumar (@ImAshok225) 2 May 2022
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