Indian Premier League (IPL) side Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) bowling coach Bharat Arun feels that “players who can adapt to different conditions” should be roped in during the mega IPL auctions. The IPL auctions will take place on February 12 and February 13.
Bharat's strategy
"You need to pick players who can adapt to different conditions. Even before the pandemic, when you picked bowlers for home conditions, you still needed them to play seven away games in the IPL," former India bowling coach Arun was quoted while talking to kkr.in.
"Having watched most of the top players around the world up close, you have a fair idea as to what they can do. And it helps you to prepare and take your calls better, and also plan more effectively during the matches," he added.
Plans for Indian team
While talking about his stint at the Indian team, Arun said that the “goal was always to be Number 1 in any conditions” and the biggest challenge in achieving it “was to have bowlers who could excel and who could get to 20 wickets in all conditions.”
"It was a conscious effort, I think, with Virat (Kohli) and Ravi (Shastri) to be the Number 1 team in the world. And to be so, it was important that we win under all conditions. Preparing this bunch of fast bowlers was our biggest challenge and the way they responded... The rest is history. With the Indian side, our goal was always to be Number 1 in any conditions. To be able to achieve that objective, I think the biggest challenge was to have bowlers who could excel and who could get to 20 wickets in all conditions. We did exactly that, and that's why we were successful.
"I would say that therein lies an opportunity for me as a bowler to excel. Yes, there are limitations for bowlers. But again, they know that if they execute and if they can build a little more guile around their bowling, they have a chance to be a hero," he explained.
KKR had retained Andre Russell, Sunil Narine, Venkatesh Iyer and Varun Chakravarthy for the upcoming edition of IPL.
