IPL 2024 | KKR captain Shreyas Iyer is not happy with Mitchell Starc’s contribution dgtl

Kolkata Knight Riders could have lost the match. Royal Challengers Bangalore needed 21 runs to win in the last over. Mitchell Starc hit three sixes in the first four balls and pushed the team towards defeat. Captain Shreyas Iyer is upset with this pacer of Australia bought for 24 crore 75 lakh rupees. Still stood by Starker.

At the end of the match, Shreyas stood by Starc with a strange argument. The KKR skipper said, “When 18 runs are needed from 6 balls, the pressure is always on the bowler. A six increases the pressure. At that time you have to keep a cool head. Don’t think about the previous ball. We have to think in which direction to force the batter to hit the next ball. The way Andre Russell turned the game around for us.”

Shreyas didn’t mention Stark’s name even once. But his allusion to the Australian pacer was clear. Bengaluru needed 21 runs from the last over to win. Karan Sharma was batting. Starc, the batsman at number nine for Bengaluru, hit a six on the very first ball. Karan hit a six off the third and fourth ball as well. He scored 18 runs in four balls and turned the match towards Bengaluru. There was no way Starc could stop the sixes. Instead, he was telling the same place. It is beneficial to Karan. In the end though KKR won the match. Despite scoring 222 runs, they won by just 1 run.