Whereas every part has gone very well for Shreyas Iyer and Kolkata Knight Riders within the ongoing season of the IPL, the identical can’t be mentioned about their luck with the toss.
Whereas KKR have been essentially the most dominant facet within the ongoing IPL 2024, their captain Shreyas Iyer’s luck with the toss has been an enormous fear for them. He even addressed the difficulty earlier this month following the 98-run win over Lucknow Tremendous Giants. At that stage, Shreyas Iyer had ended up shedding the toss eight occasions in eleven video games.
“The final 6 matches within the dressing room there was havoc, teammates are coming in and asking skip what’s occurring, we’re shedding tosses, however we’re successful video games that is what issues,” Shreyas Iyer had mentioned on the post-match presentation.
After that sport, he misplaced two extra tosses in 4 video games. The opposite two video games have been washed out and not using a ball being bowled. A type of video games was washed out and not using a toss whereas the opposite sport was washed out with a toss. By the way, Shreyas Iyer had managed to win the toss for the second washed-out sport.
Toss performs a key function in deciding the result of the sport and so the KKR captain got here up with a never-seen-before gesture in the course of the toss for the all-important closing in opposition to Sunrisers Hyderabad on Sunday (Could 26). After receiving the coin, the KKR star threw it within the air and hilariously spun himself round as effectively. Nonetheless, it didn’t make any distinction to his fortunes as he misplaced the toss once more.
Watch Shreyas Iyer’s hilarious gesture on the toss:
🚨 Toss Replace 🚨
Sunrisers Hyderabad 🧡 elect to bat within the #Closing in opposition to Kolkata Knight Riders 💜
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— IndianPremierLeague (@IPL) Could 26, 2024
SRH captain Pat Cummins opted to bat first after successful the toss. Whereas Shreyas Iyer misplaced the toss, he was not disillusioned over getting the prospect to bowl first. The KKR skipper mentioned that his crew needed to bowl first anyway, saying:
“We’d have bowled, we’ll get a good concept about how the pitch will play. It is a crimson soil and we performed our final sport on an identical floor. We have to stick with the current, stick with the fundamentals and execute all our plans.
“Each particular person is taking duty, it is a large sport, we have loads of individuals who’re enjoying in a closing for the primary time, nervous, however that is additionally a very good likelihood. We’re going with the identical crew,” mentioned Iyer.
Even within the first qualifier, KKR had misplaced the toss in opposition to SRH however had gone on to win the sport by eight wickets. Iyer and his teammates will probably be hoping for the same end result tonight to energy KKR to their third IPL title and first since 2014.
