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The team changed their batting order, promoting Robin Uthappa as an opener which worked very well as he became the highest run scorer in the tournament with 660 runs. However, he was not given the same luxury from the owners as they gave Gautam Gambhir when he was the captain.

New additions to the side were Robin Uthappa, Manish Pandey, Suryakumar Yadav, Morne Morkel, Umesh Yadav, Piyush Chawla, Vinay Kumar, Chris Lynn along with some other uncapped and foreign players. He further thanked Karthik for his contribution as captain to the team in the last two and a half years. Kolkata captain, Gautam Gambhir had 57 runs and led his side to victory. You don’t do it in the middle of the season. “It takes a lot of courage for someone like him to take a decision such as this. In his tweet, Gambhir said: “It takes years to build a legacy but a minute to destroy it.” It’s unclear whether Gambhir was referring to Karthik stepping down, but the timing of his post made it curious. Following Sourav Ganguly’s removal, the franchise roped in the then Indian opening batsman Gautam Gambhir, who remained KKR’s captain between 2011 and 2017. Recent reports indicate that BCCI is now considering several measures to organise the event in September-November later this year, should the T20 World Cup gets shifted to a later date.

“We are also fortunate that Eoin Morgan, the 2019 World Cup-winning captain, who has been the vice captain, is willing to lead the side going forward. "My point is, it sounds very good when someone says that I want to concentrate on my batting but the truth is, you start getting fillers from the management whether they are happy or not, so it’s very unfortunate,” Gambhir further opined. Bowlers with the most five-fors v Australia, Remembering the over that went for 77 runs, BBL 2020/21 squads: The complete team lists, Watch: Archer's sensational opening spell. In a move that has echoes of what KKR are going through now under Karthik, Gambhir had a difficult IPL 2018 season, when he struggled so badly, he stepped down as captain and offered to forgo the fee the franchise owed him. Though Morgan is a decorated skipper on the international circuit, Gambhir isn't of the opinion that he can make a difference. — No hay banda (@hay_banda) October 16, 2020.