Kolkata Knight Riders captain Dinesh Karthik on Sunday praised his players for their all-round clinical effort in his side’s eight-wicket win over Rajasthan Royals in an IPL match but said they need to improve in certain aspects.
“It was a pretty clinical effort, the bowlers bowled well and the batsmen backed it up well too,” Karthik said.
“In India, you get to play on a lot of slow surfaces and you need to adapt to them. We need to improve in a few situations, but that’s always the case,” he added.
Asked about his side’s debutant Harry Gurney pacer who took two wickets for 25 runs, Karthik said, “Well Harry (Gurney) is a true professional, he’s played in leagues all over the world.”
Rajasthan Royals captain Ajinkya Rahane rued that his side were short by 10-20 runs.
“I think on this wicket 150-160 would have been good. We had runs on the board and a slower wicket. But, I don’t think we bowled to our plans. Lots of learning from this game though. Such things happen in cricket, we need to learn from our mistakes,” he said.
“I think we should focus on playing good cricket and improve in the upcoming games. The wicket was going to be slow and we knew that, so we thought it was the right time to give him (Midhun) a game.”
