Kolkata Knight Riders – Dinesh Karthik – AVERAGE

Dinesh Karthik is captaining an IPL team for the full season for very first time. The real taste of captaincy is when you have to defend the score. On that count, Karthik could not restrict the CSK team from conquering a great total. The decision to let Vinay Kumar bowl the last over cost the match.

Karthik impressed in the first match against Royal Challengers Bangalore though. His inspired bowling change of Nitish Rana worked wonders and dismissed Kohli and ABD which turned the match.