Shreyas Iyer To Lead Kolkata Knight Riders As Captain in IPL 2022

The mega auction for the IPL 2022 season is ended. Many big names sold at high prices many players marked unsold, some new names also sold at a whopping price. Franchises make their teams and now it’s time for strategies. Teams like KKR and RCB whom main aim to find a perfect captain for their team in the mega auction of IPL 2022. As like franchises, KKR had announced Shreyas Iyer as their captain for this season of IPL 2022.

Shreyas Iyer Appointed As KKR Captain in the 2022 IPL season

The runners-up of the previous season of IPL, Kolkata Knight Riders have announced  Shreyas Iyer as their captain for this season of IPL. The right-handed middle-order batsman who led Delhi Capitals in the 2020 IPL season has been bought by KKR and given the charge of captaincy for this season of IPL.

Iyer who is one of the reasons behind the rapid success of the DC franchise for many seasons may his remarkable captaincy skills can work for KKR too.

Despite being packed with full of experience and emerging players in KKR, Iyer has been given this opportunity just because of his calmness and his situation absorbing skills are what KKR needs the most. Eoin Morgan who led the team in the previous season has also some justified captaincy skills but the lack of his form and zero contribution for the team with his bat made the franchise lead him to go before the 2022 IPL season.

This season KKR is looking better than the previous seasons. The team is packed with packed full of stars players like Andre Russell, Sunil Narayan, and Pat Cummins. Despite being a team with many match-winners it was now on to Shreyas Iyer how he will lead the team and it was the most interesting to see Iyer grow as an Individual too.

A record to remember 

Iyer’s performance in IPL is remarkable. Being on the list of many power hitters his presence of game is what someone is looking for when we talk about a complete player. His ability to change the game on itself is more enchanting after he was given the charge to lead the team of Delhi Capitals. Here is a stats which shows the ability of Iyer as an individual and as a captain too,

Iyer stats as an individual

Innings: 87
Aggregate: 2375
Highest Score: 96
Average: 31.67
50s: 16

 

Iyer stats as captain

Match 41
Wins 21
Losses 18
Tied 2
No Results 0
Win % 53.65

 

KKR hopes are high from Shreyas Iyer as a captain might the stars lift high and the team can perform as per the standards.

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Tauqeer Belal
Tauqeer Belal
Tauqeer is a young writer who is enthusiastic about the game of cricket and writes about what is going on in the game of cricket around the world. Currently, he is pursuing his Journalism degree from St. Xaviers' College, Ranchi.

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