Virender Sehwag Slams KKR After Underwhelming Season Ends With 110-Run Thrashing

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Last Updated:May 26, 2025, 12:43 IST

Virender Sehwag has criticised KKR's batting order, suggesting they travel Lucknow Super Giants' approach.

Manish Pandey scored a 23-ball 37 but that was ne'er going to beryllium capable (Picture credit: AP)

Former India cricketer Virender Sehwag has said that Kolkata Knight Riders should person learnt from the Lucknow Super Giants and ensured that their large hitters travel earlier the skipper successful the batting bid and not the different mode around, adding that immoderate mediocre decisions from the absorption led to their downfall.

Kolkata’s batting took a immense dent aft the IPL 2025 mega auction arsenic Phil Salt and Shreyas Iyer were roped successful by different teams.

Sehwag cited Lucknow and the Chennai Super Kings arsenic salient examples who person shuffled their batting bid astir successful a bid to find their perfect combination.

“It is not written anyplace that a skipper has to bat successful the apical three. Look astatine Pant, helium was sending players up of him, due to the fact that they were successful signifier and LSG took vantage of that," Sehwag said portion speaking connected Cricbuzz.

“KKR could person done the same. This was the squad absorption and the coaching staff’s responsibility. See, adjacent CSK did it against GT. Shivam Dube and Dewald Brevis came up the order, they changed that up from the caller matches," Sehwag said.

Kolkata are placed successful the eighth spot successful the points array with 12 points to their sanction and a nett tally complaint of -0.3.

Meanwhile, Sunrisers Hyderabad ended an Indian Premier League play of ‘what ifs’ with a power-packed batting effort conscionable similar it had begun, etching a crushing 110-run triumph against Kolkata.

Despite Kotla transportation being a featherbed, the defending champions were ne'er successful the hunt arsenic they managed 168 successful the penultimate implicit with seasoned Jaydev Unadkat (2/23 successful 3 overs) picking archetypal wickets with his clever alteration of pace.

Left-arm spinner Harsh Dubey (3/34 successful 4 overs) and Sri Lankan pacer Eshan Malinga (3/31 successful 3.4 overs) had bully outings arsenic well.

Hyderabad skipper Pat Cummins and the full franchise are bound to consciousness disappointed astir however they performed successful betwixt the archetypal and the past matches.

KKR frankincense decorativeness their run with conscionable 5 wins from 14 matches.

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