The KKR skipper, Eoin Morgan opines that the veteran off-spinner Harbhajan Singh’s inclusion in the Kolkata Knight Riders squad has boosted their spin force keeping in mind of Chennai’s slow turners in the upcoming IPL. The 40-year-old, who skipped the IPL in Dubai last year, was bought by the two-time IPL champions at his base price of ₹2 crores despite going unsold in the first round. He will join the likes of Sunil Narine, Shakib-al-Hasan, Kuldeep Yadav, and Varun Chakravarthy in KKR’s spin department.

During the virtual press conference, Eoin Morgan said, “Adding Harbhajan to our squad has strengthened us in a really good way. When you look at our spin department as a whole, on paper, it’s one of the best in the tournament and that’s factual. If you look at the options that we have and the conditions that we might play in probably particularly in Chennai, which notoriously can turn or at least raise the eyebrows of our spinners which is hard to do.”

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Morgan, who was named as the captain of the side midway into their dwindling campaign last season, said this time the squad is well-rounded and the biggest strength would be their middle-order.

Talking about the KKR squad, Morgans aid, “The one positive, amongst others last year was the versatility within our middle order and the flexibility to either promote Sunil or promote me or DK The strength within the middle order is, if we play well, there’s a lot of teams who will not enjoy playing against us. It is one of the strengths of our side, we need to make the right call in when to play the best hand. And that’s one of the things that we learned from last year.”

KKR missed the playoffs for a second successive time last year, but Morgan has confidence in the bench strength of this season to deal with the challenges of injury and illness. He had missed the last two ODIs against India due to a split-webbing, but he confirmed that he’s all set to be back in action after removing the stitches on Thursday.

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Eoin Morgan explained, “The stitches will be removed tomorrow and then I’ll progress my batting in the coming days and then fielding at the back of the end of that. Given the time frame that is available for me it’s looking very good.”