Ajinkya Rahane attributed the loss to them.

Kolkata Knight Riders suffered a crushing defeat in the match against Mumbai Indians. After the match was over, KKR captain Ajinkya Rahane has given reasons for the defeat. Rahane blamed this defeat on his batsmen, he said that he failed collectively. Rahane said after the match that the batsmen collectively failed. It was a good wicket for batting. 180-190 runs should have been scored on this.

Ajinkya Rahane He further said that many times when you are facing bounce, it has to be used. The KKR captain said that the bowlers tried hard but could not score too much on the score board. The biggest reason for this was that our wickets kept falling. Rahane said that it is difficult to return after losing four wickets in Powerplay.

Captain Ajinkya Rahane attributed batsmen to defeat

Kolkata Knight Riders captain Ajinkya Rahane Rahane said after the match, the batsmen collectively failed. As I mentioned in the toss, it was a good wicket to bat. 180–190 runs on this wicket would have been good. It has a very good bounce. Sometimes you have to use speed and boom. We got to learn very fast from this game. Could not do anything more than the ball. He made his best attempt. But there was not much run on the board.

KKR lost four wickets in the powerplay itself. The team could not recover from it. Captain Rahane further said- We continued to lose wickets. Four wickets fell in the powerplay. It became difficult to get out and put a good total on the board. You need that partnership. You need a batsman to stay up to the end.

Significantly, the left -handed fast bowler who took four wickets in his debut match Ashwani Kumar Mumbai Indians defeated defending champions Kolkata Knight Riders by eight wickets in the IPL match on Monday, on the basis of Ryan Ricelton, who scored an unbeaten 62 off 4 wickets and 41 balls, by eight wickets.