Kolkata Knight Riders on the IPL 2025 Public sale© BCCI
In the meantime, former West Indies all-rounder Dwayne Bravo, who’s now the mentor of reigning champions Kolkata Knight Riders, has defended the group’s technique of “going all out” for Venkatesh Iyer to maintain the “core” of the IPL championship-winning facet intact.
Seen as a possible captaincy candidate for KKR, Venkatesh’s acquisition has sparked some criticism over why he wasn’t retained if management was a part of the group assume tank’s plan for him.
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“Getting Venky (Venkatesh Iyer) was one of the main priorities for us, as you could see, we went all out for him,” mentioned Bravo, a four-time IPL winner at Chennai Tremendous Kings.
“It’s good that we have 90 per cent of the players from the championship-winning team. That in itself is a positive sign. It’s important to keep your core because when you have to build from scratch, it becomes complicated to make combinations and all.”
“We started planning while I was in Trinidad. We had come with a proper plan, the players we wanted to target,” added Bravo, who will likely be in command of all of the franchises of the Knight Riders label in T20 leagues.
At a staggering Rs 23.75 crore, the 29-year outdated Madhya Pradesh all-rounder, who has represented India in 9 T20Is and two ODIs, emerged because the third costliest participant on the two-day IPL public sale.
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