Former South Africa captain AB de Villiers shared his opinion on Kolkata Knight Riders batting line-up for next season as he made a bold prediction about them. KKR made some serious business in IPL 2024 Auction by signing Mitchell Starc for a record-breaking INR 24.75 crore. However, they didn’t make any marquee additions to their line-up.
De Villiers feels that the two-time champions have a good bowling unit but said that their batting line-up is not IPL-winning material.
“I think their bowling attack is fantastic. The issue lies in the batting department. They don’t have bad batters, but I don’t think that’s an IPL-winning batting line-up. Shreyas Iyer is a wonderful batter. He delights me up the order there. Rinku Singh is a good finisher,” he said.
Shreyas Iyer, who missed last season’s IPL due to injury, will return to lead the franchise, while Rinku Singh has also been in some terrific form in recent times for the Indian team. While they will also need the other batters to support Iyer and Rinku to go big in the next season.
Meanwhile, De Villiers added that KKR have a decent batting line-up but it is not amongst the top four for next season.
“The batting line-up doesn’t look bad, but I don’t think it’s one of the top four batting line-ups at this year’s IPL. That’s what I think KKR is lacking at this year’s IPL,” the 39-year-old opined.
Meanwhile, the Proteas legend hailed five-time champions Chennai Super Kings for doing some smart business in the auction by signing New Zealand duo Daryl Mitchell and Ravindra Ravindra. He called Ravindra one of the biggest steals of the season as CSK signed for just INR 1.80 crore.
“CSK is the street smart team of the IPL and they have been that forever. I think Daryl Mitchell was very much needed and Rachin Ravindra in that middle order. Both New Zealanders have had very good World Cups, scoring hundreds. Shardul Thakur, he is a fantastic cricket player in all formats. One of the biggest steals in this year’s IPL,” De Villiers said.
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