World News – GB – Talking Points: Why did Sunil Narine and Andre Russell play so late?

Sunil Narine came in twelfth place for the Kolkata Knight Riders against the Chennai Super Kings, when the partnership between Shane Watson and Ambati Rayudu was on 64 and CSK needed 74 to win in nine overs Pat Cummins had just completed his fourth

The delay in his bowling couldn’t have been due to a match-up: Prior to that match, Watson had made 88 deliveries out of 83 Nostril, with eight dismissals Rayudu had scored 41 out of 50 from him, with three dismissals Clearly, this are not very comfortable players facing Narine

Which suggests that the plan from the start may have been to use Narine in the second half of the innings.We know he has supreme numbers against Dhoni, but you surely aren’t articulating your whole plan on that. match? But what else could it have been? Perhaps the fact that the Knight Riders like to use Cummins up front, which means fast young bowlers have to play to the death alongside Andre Russell. Instead of giving them that responsibility entirely, it’s possible that they decided to give it to Narine instead

The use of Varun Chakravarthy later in the innings also suggests that they may have sensed there was something about the conditions that made the bowling spin easier. Chakravarthy got them the wicket of Dhoni, which put serious pressure on CSK at the end of their pursuit and ultimately proved to be the finishing touch to a fine tactical victory, sealed by Narine’s 19th who did not lasted only 10 while 36 were needed

It is irrelevant for CSK not to rely on spinners, and the numbers confirm this sentiment: Out of 170 innings of bowling in the IPL, only 23 times – including one this evening – have they played just four spin overs or less It’s also weird that none of those four oversights tonight came from Ravindra Jadeja, probably because there was a left-wing KKR batsman at almost every stop before tonight’s slog

Legspinner Karn Sharma, meanwhile, did a tough job He didn’t play a single short ball according to ESPNcricinfo length data and finished with 4-0-25-2 despite a first over dear It was a terrific comeback for the legspinner who is big in trivia contests due to the number of IPL titles he has won (three in three years with Sunrisers, Mumbai and CSK), without ever being a safe choice for any of the his teams Our data suggests he played one stump or wider for the most part against right-wing batsmen today, so he was rarely in the strike zone for them.

More impressively, the lefties also had no hitting options against him: he didn’t concede a single limit to the lefties and also struck out two.

They never do that Well, not since May 2015 anyway The last time was when Gautam Gambhir was still captain and Delhi were still the Daredevils

This season, too, they had played twice after winning the draw Maybe when you have batsmen like Andre Russell, Eoin Morgan and Dinesh Karthik – who himself has been a decent finisher over the years. time even if he’s not at his best at the moment – it’s a tempting option to hunt

But the stick wasn’t quite in place for them, in many ways they were losing the first wickets at the top and there hadn’t been consistently memorable performances from the big names mentioned above. They lost the pursuit to Sharjah in their previous match so maybe that factored into the decision to beat today Or it could just be that they were just following the tide – the captains started to beat the first successfully in this tournament, and it happened again tonight.

Why did Tripathi open, and was this the game to send Narine to No 4?

Rahul Tripathi took the top spot from Narine, and it worked well enough for everyone involved Tripathi racked up three fifties in his last four innings as an IPL opener, so it was justified that he had was pushed to the top There were several puzzled voices around – Ben Stokes among them – when Narine got in front of Morgan at No 4, but Narine did a decent job, doing 17 out of 9 That said, should he have been in this match that Narine lost first place?

There is no elite rhythm in the formation of CSK, the kind that confuses Narine the drummer a lot, so in many ways KKR has blunted its own attack. But his 17 of 9 is an inning that KKR would accept from him no matter where he beats Lui, a left batsman, also ended up taking deliveries from legspinner Karn Sharma, which was a bonus that KKR right-handed people did. have not used later

That’s Andre Russell’s designated role this season He’s beaten 42 of his 60 post-16th births so far, and his lethal save rate of 857 and five wickets shows it’s a plan taking place for KKR

They’ve tried various bowling strategies already during the season, including six-bowl and seven-bowl bowling. This depth in bowling allows them to beat Pat Cummins early and attack controls and so it pays to have another seasoned fast pitcher in Russell to take over on death

When he arrived today, CSK had been rocked by the loss of Dhoni but still only needed 13+ with Sam Curran, Kedar Jadhav, Ravindra Jadeja and Dwayne Bravo available The pace, direction and Russell’s length – decidedly short, for all six balls on his first pass – gave them no hitting opportunity and effectively killed the game as they only got three points

Russell later said he decided to only do the cross stitch at the end, as he felt it was difficult to tidy up based on the delivery that brought him out earlier Intuition and perception like that – and the skills to make a plan around it – could mean we’ll see Russell take on that role for a while, especially as KKR will try to prepare two young, fast bowlers they’ll be looking at. may not want to exhibit death

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