Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) opener Jason Roy wants his teammates to ‘draw a line in the sand now’ as they have managed to get just four points from seven games despite Rinku Singh’s last over assault and Venkatesh Iyer’s maiden Indian Premier League (IPL) ton. Roy who replaced Shakib Al Hasan in the KKR squad expects his teammates to keep pushing and keep the playoff chances alive as they faced Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) on April 26 at M.Chinnaswamy Stadium.
"The talk in the camp is to just keep pushing hard, we got to enjoy ourselves. It is very easy in cricket, especially in short formats to lose and (resultantly) lose a lot of confidence," Roy told the media in pre-match press conference.
"We are trying to keep the confidence high, smile in the change room, making sure our methods do not change too much. As individuals we need to look in the mirror, get better each session and think how we can individually impact the game in a better way. We have had some good individual performances along the losses, which is a bit of positive, but a loss is a loss," he said.
"We got to draw a line in the sand now that the half of the tournament is done for us and we just got to push forward," Roy added.
Roy smashed a quickfire 61 off 26 balls against Chennai Super Kings (CSK) in an unsuccessful run chase. He also revealed why he batted at no.5 instead of opening the innings when KKR needed to achieve a mammoth target.
"I left the field for 12 minutes at the end of our innings so I was not able to bat for further 12 minutes when our innings started, and it just so happened that we lost those wickets when we did.
"It is just the rules of the game, unfortunately. There was no reason behind it, I really wanted to open and I was pushing my case to open on that wicket, and had to try and do the job in the middle-order," he said.
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