IPL5: Shukla not wary of Kevon Cooper – Cricket News Update
Kolkata Knight Riders’ http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Kevon-Cooper-c71194 as King Khan’s KKR gear up to play Shilpa Shetty’s Rajasthan Royals in the seventh match of ongoing fifth edition of Indian Premier League
at Jaipur today, April 8, 2012.
In http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Rajasthan-c837 Royals' opening match against Kings XI Punjab at home on Friday, Kevon Cooper, the 23-year-old Trinidad all-rounder, was outstanding both with the bat and ball as his side won the match by 31 runs. The right-handed batsman
struck an unbeaten 11 off the final three deliveries of Rajasthan’s innings to help his side set a daunting 192 runs target for Kings XI Punjab. His right-arm medium pace fetched him four wickets for 26 runs in a spell of four overs to restrict KXIP to 160
for 9 in their allotted quota of 20 overs.
However, Laxmi Ratan Shulka is not reading much into the Caribbean cricketer’s all-round performance against Punjab as he termed him an ordinary cricketer with whom the KKR batsmen as well as bowlers can deal well. Shukla, the 30-year-old
Bengal all-rounder said that they had watched Cooper’s performance against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Punjab-c833 and have plans up their sleeves.
"Yes, we have watched him play last night and he seemed to be so so, nothing special,” said Shukla when asked about the Trinidad cricketers all-round performance on Friday night. "He mixes in a lot of slower ones but we are prepared
for that," he added further.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Delhi-c780 Daredevils side quite convincingly, by eight wickets. But Shukla said that defeat would not be
on their mind as the conditions were quite different. Shukla blamed the weather Gods for his side’s unimpressive performance in the tournament opener.
"It happens in the curtailed matches,” said the right-handed http://www.senore.com/Cricket/JH-Kallis-c1692 early and that pegged us. We are ready
to bounce back," he added further.
The second match of the day will see Pune http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750 locking horns with Kings XI Punjab at former’s home.
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