Shah Rukh Khan, the co-owner of the Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR), looked disappointed after his team’s performance against Mumbai Indians (MI) in the fifth match of the 2021 Indian Premier League (IPL). On Tuesday, Eoin Morgan and Co suffered a demoralizing loss against MI by 10 runs at the MA Chidambaram Stadium. It was also KKR’s 12th defeat against the Mumbai-based franchise in their last 13 meetings.
At one point in time, the Knight Riders were cruising at the chase of 153. However, the Men in Gold and Purple lost their way somehow and failed to make a comeback. The Knights managed to lose the despite tha fact that at one point the match was in completely their favor.
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Shah Rukh didn’t seem pleased with KKR’s performance in Chennai. The veteran Bollywood actor took to Twitter and wrote, “Disappointing performance, to say the least. @KKRiders apologies to all the fans.”
Disappointing performance. to say the least @KKRiders apologies to all the fans!
— Shah Rukh Khan (@iamsrk) April 13, 2021
Morgan, the KKR skipper, was also disappointed after their win as the southpaw, who scored seven runs before getting out to Rahul Chahar, rued the missed chance and iterated the importance of being ‘bold’ to close off games.
Talking about the same during the post-match presentation, Morgan said, “Yes, disappointing (to lose). Played some really good cricket for most parts of the game, we looked comfortable in the chase, but they are a strong team, came back well, and sad that it didn’t work out for us. We made a few mistakes, will need to sort it out. We put ourselves in a good position to win today, but then not to win, that’s something we need to take care of.”
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In the run-chase, Nitish Rana and Shubman Gill made an opening partnership of 72 runs to set the platform for the Knight Riders. But then Chahar came to the party and picked up four wickets to break the backbone of KKR’s batting. In fact, after Gill and Rana, no other KKR managed to reach the double figures and that’s what cost them the game.
