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Knight Riders clarifies

KOLKATA: The Kolkata Knight Riders management on Tuesday clarified that the idea of having multiple captains was to have a set of strategists who would form a team of four to five core experts in the field of fielding, bowling, batting and other areas of the game to assist the captain on field with their viewpoints before executing the strategy.

“Needless to stay the term ‘multi captains’ has raised a few eyebrows and questions”, the statement issued post the joint meeting in Mumbai said. “The captain of the team is one and only one as in the case in most sports. Just the roles which are there in the regular format of the game as the fielding expert, batting coaches, are being better defined to be able to give quick suggestions as in the case of baseball and some other faster-paced sports, said the statement.

“All internal decisions are taken collectively by the core cricketing teams which comprises of John Buchanan, Sourav Ganguly, Matthew Mott and a few others. There is no dissent on that ever. Even this confusion is caused because these roles got described as multiple captains, the statement added. — Special Correspndent

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