Kolkata Knight Riders favourite to win Champions League T20 claims http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Manoj-Tiwary-c1890 – Cricket News Update
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Manoj-c1888 Tiwary, on Monday, dubbed Kolkata Knight Riders as the favourites to win the Champions League T20 after they humbled Chennai Super Kings in the final of Indian Premier League season five – played at MA Chidambaram Stadium,
Chepauk.
The 26-year-old batter from http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Bengal-c771 said, “Of course, we are favourites in the Champions League. Now that we have won the IPL, we will enter the competition as the favourites and everybody will expect us to win the title.”
Knight Riders were set a daunting target of 191 runs in the final by two time reigning champions CSK. http://www.senore.com/Cricket/G-Gambhir-c1447, skipper KKR, and his men had to fight very hard to win their maiden IPL trophy.
Wicket-keeper batsman, Manvinder Bisla, played a special knock of 89 runs from just 48 delivers and set a solid platform for the Knight Riders. However, all his pains would have accounted for nothing had it not been for Tiwary’s
three ball cameo.
Tiwary, along with http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Shakib-Al-Hasan-c2492, saw KKR over the finish line with two balls to spare. The right-handed batter, who laid the smack down on Chennai by blasting two consecutive boundaries in the final over, acknowledged the advice
he received from the Bangladeshi international in tense situation.
“We (Manoj and Shakib) were talking in Bengali, true. Especially, Shakib was telling me, "we can win this just have to http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Adrian-Roger-Kirshaw-Pierson-c42135 to our job and play the shots. We decided not to panic and just focus on winning the match for KKR,” said
the 26-year-old.
Knight Riders were amongst the most consistent teams in this edition of IPL. KKR finished second on the points table, securing 21 points from 16 games.
Tiwary held that the reason behind KKR success this year lies in their team chemistry, something which was missing in previous editions. According to the batter, players gelled well and this was reflected in their performance.
Tiwary said, “In the first two seasons, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sourav-Chandidas-Ganguly-c90746) tried hard to lead from the front but somewhere down the line the chemistry was missing and things did not fall in place for us.”
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