Ankit_sharma03 Posted April 30, 2021 Share Posted April 30, 2021 4 minutes ago, Ankit_sharma03 said: In next mega auction they need to pick players of certain style if thats the game they want to play unfortunately their arent many avl in the system, the few who are will be retained rest others are ruined by safety lessons Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BacktoCricaddict Posted April 30, 2021 Share Posted April 30, 2021 9 hours ago, SK_IH said: That's a very good template by Brendon McCullum for T20 cricket. When you hit one boundary, you look for another & then another, instead of settling on singles. But it's hard to convince someone who think strike rate is overrated. On the coaching front, Brendon McCullum should look in the mirror before coming to the personnel though. Same old rotten tactics of sending Narine in middle order, pre identified bowling plans etc have definitely contributed to KKR's poor season. Baz has got right intentions as a T20 coach but he has ordinary tactics which he backs to the hilt despite consistent failures. I ll call him a failure as a coach in IPL for sure. He's probably feeling the heat, having nightmares of Sarukhbhai going "B...b...b...b...az, you're f...f...f...ired!" (in my best K ...k...kk...kiran voice). And he is taking it out on his players. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeeGaw Posted April 30, 2021 Share Posted April 30, 2021 10 hours ago, BacktoCricaddict said: Coaching rule #1: Keep the dirty laundry indoors. Rip into your players in private, but support them 100% in public. McCullum was a great player, maybe a great tactician/analyst etc etc., but his leadership skills are questionable. He has to be one of the worst coaches in the league to do so little with so much talent available. I wonder if he hasn’t already been told his services will not be required next season. BacktoCricaddict 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeeGaw Posted April 30, 2021 Share Posted April 30, 2021 Couple of weeks ago I was watching YouTube videos produced by various team’s social media teams. The contrast between the way a guy like Ponting interacts with his players and the way McCullum does was striking. There seemed to be a vibe amongst the KKR players that they hated McCullum as he came across as a real gruff a-hole. One example was when I think it was Rana that was cutting the end off his bat handle. McCullum comes up and disparages him about doing it due to risk of injury handling the blade. He said something to the effect of “Don’t ever do that again.”. Rana (or whoever it was) just ignored him and kept going. Seems the players, or at least one of them, don’t respect him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vickydev Posted April 30, 2021 Share Posted April 30, 2021 9 hours ago, kirkutfan said: Well what did the big strike rate people do? KKR’s best performers have been Rana and Tripathi ( top order). Really, what have the big3 - Morgan, Karthik and to some extent Russell accomplished? For the most part they have been swinging and getting out with tailender type results. Also, who stopped Morgan from shuffling the batting order to shake things up? Looking at the coach’s table where some number cruncher shows “54” doesn’t cut it. These guys are a bunch of cowards who will take it out on Gill- who is still trying to figure out his game, while the believer of this system and other big time international stars are underperforming big time. Also, everybody can’t successfully swing for a 4 or 6 every ball, without also increasing risk. Risk and reward need to be assessed. And obviously, risk levels increase if the opposition bowling/ fielding happens to be good. That is why, for example, the batsman targets the part time bowler, but might be a little more cautious playing Rashid Khan. Risk- reward assessments change. Keeping that in mind when KKR was defending a below par total, maybe they should have targeted Shaw by opening the attack with its best bowler - Pat Cummins, instead of waiting a few overs to bring him on. That would have at least raised the risk level if Shaw came out swinging. So, clearly if KKR was honest, their problem is not limited to the “top order”. KKR is too predictable as it implements a faulty strategy under a captain who has no business holding a place in the eleven, let alone lead the team. Well said. Just asking the top order to go hard wont solve their big concern that MO has too many hit and misses players in Narine, Morgan, Karthik and Russell. So many collapses time and again and they are blaming on the top order who are actually getting some runs BacktoCricaddict 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lone Wolf Posted April 30, 2021 Share Posted April 30, 2021 1 minute ago, GeeGaw said: Couple of weeks ago I was watching YouTube videos produced by various team’s social media teams. The contrast between the way a guy like Ponting interacts with his players and the way McCullum does was striking. There seemed to be a vibe amongst the KKR players that they hated McCullum as he came across as a real gruff a-hole. One example was when I think it was Rana that was cutting the end off his bat handle. McCullum comes up and disparages him about doing it due to risk of injury handling the blade. He said something to the effect of “Don’t ever do that again.”. Rana (or whoever it was) just ignored him and kept going. Seems the players, or at least one of them, don’t respect him. I too don't like McCullum much but I have my reason coz of that freakin triple hundred at Wellington that costed us a series leveling win & also when Kolli dropped him when he was on 9.. I still haven't managed to forgive Kolli for that & I guessI never will. Only thing hilarious about that Game is Ishant Sharma was giving him epic Hindi cussing during the inns BacktoCricaddict and sorak 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sorak Posted May 1, 2021 Share Posted May 1, 2021 On 4/30/2021 at 6:49 PM, Lone Wolf said: Only thing hilarious about that Game is Ishant Sharma was giving him epic Hindi cussing during the inns What? I never heard of this? What did he say, if you could recollect? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lone Wolf Posted May 1, 2021 Share Posted May 1, 2021 14 minutes ago, sorak said: What? I never heard of this? What did he say, if you could recollect? There is this Youtube video Where Ishant Sharma is swearing at many batsmen... In one of them is McCullum while he is smashing him to all parts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jusarrived Posted May 1, 2021 Share Posted May 1, 2021 On 4/30/2021 at 9:01 AM, rkt.india said: Gill is a very limited batsman, not suited to T20 cricket. Sending Rana to open is a mistake too. There is a tendency to reward good MO players with opening slots in India, see that happening regularly in Domestic too. One of the reasons why we are struggling to find quality finishers, everyone wants the easier job of opening rkt.india 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jusarrived Posted May 1, 2021 Share Posted May 1, 2021 On 4/30/2021 at 4:42 PM, Ankit_sharma03 said: "What we saw from Prithvi Shaw tonight was the perfect template of how we want to play. You're not always going to be able to hit every ball for four or six, but you can have the intent to do so, particularly when you're given a free licence. It's very difficult if you don't play shots to score runs, and unfortunately tonight we didn't play enough shots. It's become a bit of a theme. A saying that I've used throughout my career is that 'If you can't change a man, change the man.' So we'll probably have to make some changes and try and bring in some fresh personnel who will hopefully take the game on a bit more." This Being Safe has become a problem with so many batsman starting from KL rahul. Shaw innings was a reminder that u can throw opposition out of game within few overs. Fine he has a rare gift but if players like KL, Pant start to underplay their ability they are not helping themselves I don't think Pant is playing safe, when you are chasing totals its fine to be drop anchor for a MO batsmen..he just wasn't timing well I the last game, I think it's one off Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BacktoCricaddict Posted May 1, 2021 Share Posted May 1, 2021 On 4/30/2021 at 9:11 AM, GeeGaw said: Couple of weeks ago I was watching YouTube videos produced by various team’s social media teams. The contrast between the way a guy like Ponting interacts with his players and the way McCullum does was striking. There seemed to be a vibe amongst the KKR players that they hated McCullum as he came across as a real gruff a-hole. One example was when I think it was Rana that was cutting the end off his bat handle. McCullum comes up and disparages him about doing it due to risk of injury handling the blade. He said something to the effect of “Don’t ever do that again.”. Rana (or whoever it was) just ignored him and kept going. Seems the players, or at least one of them, don’t respect him. The thing with this Rana example is that McCullum is probably right - Rana is an integral part of the team and what he was doing was not worth the risk. But there is a way to handle such things. In private, with kindness. This is where guys like Chappell and Kumble failed too. Brilliant men, short fuse. Chappell, of course, was also a highly unprofessional a-hole. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeeGaw Posted May 1, 2021 Share Posted May 1, 2021 McCullum was definitely right, but I was just making the observation that he doesn’t seem to have the respect of his players. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WC2011INDIA Posted May 1, 2021 Share Posted May 1, 2021 If players don't respect Mccullum then these players are idiots. No one in current setup can take on the opposition so fearlessly as he used to for NZ and score decent amount of runs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ankit_sharma03 Posted May 1, 2021 Share Posted May 1, 2021 1 hour ago, jusarrived said: There is a tendency to reward good MO players with opening slots in India, see that happening regularly in Domestic too. One of the reasons why we are struggling to find quality finishers, everyone wants the easier job of opening The issue with rana is where do u send him as he has to many issues. One of the reasons he was sent up apart from dk, morgan, russel already in middle was he was struggling against leggies. He was dismissed around 10 times in 2018 and 2019 (in half a season) Then he has short ball issues and moving ball to. With opening it somewhat worked coz of PP and he has one strong point his intent is very good. Also sometimes team fall for left hander trap and give him off spinners which strangely he plays damn well. The way their sides balance is they need someone like shane watson . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ankit_sharma03 Posted September 23, 2021 Share Posted September 23, 2021 This break worked wonders or may be being at do or die situation where they have decided to go all out attack Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ankit_sharma03 Posted September 23, 2021 Share Posted September 23, 2021 Gill also seems to have worked on few things like stepping down to bowlers and playing more lofted shots Cricspin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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