Kolkata Knight Riders ended their IPL 2025 marketing campaign with an enormous 110-run loss by the hands of Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH). After the match, their captain, Ajinkya Rahan,e admitted that it was a season of ups and downs and vowed to come back again stronger subsequent 12 months.

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Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) entered IPL 2025 because the defending champions, however they had been inconsistent proper by way of. Eventually, they had been knocked out of the match, ending in eighth place with solely 5 wins from 14 matches. To make issues worse, they ended their marketing campaign with their worst defeat ever in IPL historical past, dropping to Sunrisers Hyderabad by 110 runs.

After the match, KKR skipper Ajinkya Rahane admitted that it wasn’t their season this time round and has vowed to come back again stronger subsequent 12 months. “See, this season, I believe for us, was sort of up and down. We had our moments, we had our possibilities and I mentioned that earlier additionally throughout these matches, as a unit, we did not play effectively, rather well.

“But once more, this format, that is the way it goes, you recognize. If you win shut matches, these are the distinction. And Kings XI Punjab sport, LSG sport and likewise the CSK sport, I assumed these 2-3 video games may have been barely totally different. But I assumed, as a captain, what I noticed, what I felt, that preparation-wise, everybody tried their finest, actually finest. It’s not straightforward while you win a championship and are available into the following season, defending the championship.

“As a team, we tried our best. What I can say is, we’ll come back really stronger next year,” Rahane mentioned after the match. One of the key considerations for KKR in IPL 2025 was their most costly choose, Venkatesh Iyer’s kind who was dropped ultimately for the previous couple of matches. However, Rahane defended him stating Iyer was coaching exhausting on his half, simply that the outcomes weren’t there to be seen.

“What I can say is, you recognize, if a participant will get 20 plus crore or if a participant will get 1 or 2 crore or 3 or 4 crore, your angle does not change on the sphere. That’s what issues. As a participant, you solely deal with the controllable issues. And I felt Venkatesh Iyer was really specializing in the controllable issues.

“He was practising hard, you know, doing, trying his best, even during the games, whichever matches he played before getting injured. I thought he did really well. It’s just that for us as a team, 3-4 guys was out of form. That was the only reason I thought we struggled this year. But your attitude doesn’t change. You know, someone’s not going to work doubly harder if he’s getting 20 plus crore or someone’s not going to work less harder when he’s getting 1, 2, 3 crore, whatever it is,” the KKR captain added.