Kolkata Knight Riders all-rounder Andre Russell is missing the feel of thousands of people in the stadium rallying behind him and his team at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata.
He said that scores of fans give ‘unreal’ vibes by giving him loud cheer even before he starts his innings or gets ready to bowl his overs.
“I miss playing in front of crowds and especially Eden, where I know thousands of people got your back. That keeps me going. And it brings out the fire inside. The loud cheer, even before I face the first ball when I start running onto the crease, those vibes are unreal,” KKR’s latest release called Russell: The Knight of Eden.
Russell had joined the Knight Riders in the 2014 edition of the league when they were crowned the championship in the captaincy of Gautam Gambhir and the big man from Jamaica said that he wishes to get back to the podium once again to celebrate the glory of winning the IPL title.
“I have won the IPL in 2014, and the feeling that I got to see the guys with tears in their eyes, that's the type of feeling I want to experience again. I want to be on the podium. It should be pure purple and gold. We have a very strong team on paper. But the gameplay wasn’t,” Russell added.
The Knight Riders are not having the best of times in the ongoing edition of the IPL as they have won only two games out of the seven played so far. Russell himself has not had consistently good performances with the bat and ball and muddle batting order by the team management has not helped his cause either.