Past India chief Sunil Gavaskar accepts that the expansion of England's World Cup-winning skipper Eoin Morgan has made Kolkata Knight Riders a much more hazardous unit than before in the IPL. Morgan drove England to the World Cup title a year ago and has been in enormous structure with the bat, as it saw during England's restricted overs arrangement against Pakistan and Australia.
“Kolkata Knight Riders is such a team that has a very attractive and aggressive batting order. But the addition of Eoin Morgan to the middle-order has added more stability and experience to it. Thus, he can prove to be very dangerous,” Gavaskar said in an interview with a news media organization.
Gavaskar further proceeded to anticipate that if KKR doesn't play out, the administration may replace Dinesh Karthik as skipper and Put Morgan in control.
“Even this can happen that if in the first four-five games if KKR do not start well, then Eoin Morgan can replace Dinesh Karthik as the captain of the side because we always have had that complex,” Gavaskar said.
Gavaskar further proceeded to include that Pat Cummins, who was purchased by KKR for Rs 15.5 crore at the sales a year ago will feel the strain to legitimize the sticker price.
“KKR has the biggest T20 player in Andre Russell, but they also have the costliest player in Pat Cummins. In the recently concluded limited-overs series between Australia and England, his performance was not impressive. So, there will be some kind of pressure on him,” Gavaskar said.
“Whenever you are a costly player, the weight of the price tag is always there. Will he play all the matches? that is also something that we will need to look at,” he signed off.