Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) on Monday named gifted teen Nitish Rana as their new captain for 2023 season of Indian Premier League (IPL) 2023. Kolkata’s common captain Shreyas Iyer is ready to overlook the preliminary part of IPL 2023 resulting from a again damage. It is unsure whether or not Iyer will return for this 12 months’s IPL in any respect, which suggests there’s a likelihood he may very well be dominated out of the whole event. Iyer’s absence has left KKR with no selection however to call his alternative and now Nitish Rana will lead the franchise for the primary time in his profession.
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“Kolkata Knight Riders as we speak introduced that Nitish Rana would captain the aspect within the absence of Shreyas lyer, who’s recovering from a again damage. While we’re hopeful that Shreyas will recuperate and take part in the course of the IPL 2023 version, we really feel lucky that Nitish, with the captaincy expertise having led his state aspect in white ball cricket and the IPL expertise he has had with KK since 2018, will do an awesome job,” KKR stated in an official assertion.
“We are additionally assured that underneath Head Coach Chandrakant Pandit and the help workers, he’ll get all of the help wanted off the sector, and the extremely skilled leaders within the squad will present all help that Nitish may have on the sector. We want him the perfect in his new function and Shreyas a full and speedy restoration.”
Rana has been related to KKKR since IPL 2018. So far, the trendy southpaw has performed 74 IPL matches for Kolkata, scoring 1,744 runs. Kolkata Knight Riders will kick-off their IPL 2023 marketing campaign with a match in opposition to in opposition to Punjab Kings on April 1.