KKR’s IPL 2025 Collapse: Without Gautam Gambhir ‘excitement factor is missing’? | Cricket News

NEW DELHI: He continued: “There was a little excitement factor that I miss a little. Knight rider (KKR) Pacer Harshit Rana missed Gautam Gambhir’s existence while talking in the national capital before his matches against Delhi Capitals at the beginning of this season.In 2012 and 2014, KKR received the title of IPL 2024 under his mentor Gambhir, who had previously led the team to two titles.IPL was a dominant power in 2024, won nine matches, just lost two, with two results. Before entering the playoffs, they finished the league stage with 20 points and an amazing net work rate with +1.428.But this season, things made a different turn. Two important changes that define the KKR’s 2025 campaign – Captain Shreyas Iyer, who took them to the title of 2024, was not part of the team, and his mentor Gambhir continued.As a result, defending champions could not make playoffs IPL 2025. Did KKR refer to this ‘excitement factor’ harshly?

Manvinder Bisla, a hero of the 2012 championship under the captain of Gambhir and Gambhir’s captain, explained why Gambhir’s presence had such an important impact for KKR last year.“Many years later, Gautam (Gambhir) returned to the franchise. And it doesn’t seem to come and do not make big changes.“Even two years ago, they did with another team (probably referred to LSG) and they also made playoffs. And now now, this team is fighting.“What I really admire about the gautam is that he doesn’t go with big names. Which player can win a match and when he believes that an international star, or someone who has never played an IPL match – if he believes that the player can fully support him, he gives him confidence. Stars or Indian players.“Many teams give only two matches to a player without cover – if it performs, otherwise, it has fallen. In such cases, the player does not have the chance to show what can do.

Before IPL 2025, KKR appointed Ajinkya Rahane for 1.5 Crore in the auction and then appointed the captains. Considering his extensive experience as both bat and leader, there were high hopes that Rahane would mimic Iyer’s 2024 success. However, things did not emerge because of three times the champions endured a disappointing campaign.Who is this IPL player?“There are many players that Gautam (Gambhir) strongly supported. Mitchell Starc is an excellent example. Look at the price of KKR for him. He didn’t do much – he defended a small sum in Mumbai.“This time, the team never won the winner. If you look at him at the beginning, they won a match and lost a match-so there was never a step to build 2-3 matches to build this winning spirit, this, the team is never like a consistent winning run, never, never like this, I think that the time, so, that time, so, that time, the time, the time, the time, the time, the time, the time, the time, the time, the time, the time, the time, the time, the time, the time, the time, the time, the time, the time, the time, the time, the time, the time, the time, the time, the time, the time, the time, the time, the time, the time, the time, the time, the time, the time, the time, so I think that the time, the time, the time, the time, the time, the time, the time, the time, the time, the time, the time, the time, the time, the time, the time, the beginning of the time. Bisla.