Kolkata Knight Riders captain Eoin Morgan has said that the Kolkata team has a destructive batting line up. The KKR youngsters Nitish Rana and Rahul Tripathi took on the Sunrisers Hyderabad bowlers in their opening match on Sunday and hammered them all around to park to help the side post 187/6 in 20 overs.
"One of the many strengths we have within our squad is two of the most talented guys in the country opening the batting for us," Morgan said at the post-match virtual media conference.
Hailing Tripathi’s batting, Morgan said that the right-handed batsman played beautifully while also put weight behind wicket-keeper batsman Dinesh Karthik and all-rounder Andre Russell’s batting abilities.
"Tripathi today at No. 3 played beautifully, and the middle-order we have is extremely versatile. When Dinesh plays like that or Andre plays the game he can play, you're going to see a very destructive batting unit that has potential to win you matches."
Talking about Rana and his performance in the opening match, the skipper said that the left-handed batsman’s aggressive stroke play helped the side to post a good total.
"He played really aggressively and always took a positive option, which really did set up our batting innings,” Morgan said.
KKR restricted SRH to 177/5 eventually to win the match by 10 runs. They will now play MI in Chennai on Tuesday.