The first qualifier of IPL 2024 was played on Tuesday. In this match, the teams of Kolkata Knight Riders and Sunrisers Hyderabad were face to face. Shreyas Iyer-led Kolkata Knight Riders defeated Sunrisers Hyderabad by 8 wickets to reach the finals. Sunrisers Hyderabad, who came to bat first, scored 159 runs in 19.3 overs. In response to which Kolkata Knight Riders achieved the target of 2 wickets in 13.4 overs. However, after this easy victory, Kolkata Knight Riders captain Shreyas Iyer expressed his views.
‘I believe that the way our bowlers did their job…’
Kolkata Knight Riders captain Shreyas Iyer said that he is very happy with the performance of his players, our players took up the responsibility, we understand each other better. Today our players took full advantage of the opportunity given to them, we did everything as per our strategy. I believe that the manner in which our bowlers performed their work is commendable. Especially, the bowlers kept taking wickets at regular intervals. All our bowlers did their job very well.
‘If you have variety in your bowling attack…’
Shreyas Iyer further says that if there is variety in your bowling attack then you will get benefit, for us we are continuously working hard on ourselves, hopefully we will continue the excellent performance. Apart from this, Shreyas Iyer expressed his views on opener Rahmanullah Gurbaz. He said that Rahmanullah Gurbaz was playing for the first time this season, but he managed to leave his mark. He also said that I was continuously talking to Venkatesh Iyer while both of us were batting. He was presenting his views in Tamil, I understand Tamil, but after this I was presenting my views in Hindi. There was a good partnership between us.