Rinku Singh and Ashish Nehra
The Indian team took a 1-0 series lead by defeating Australia by two wickets in the first game of the five-match T20 series. While captain Suryakumar Yadav and Ishan Kishan scored half-centuries in this match for Team India chasing the target of 209 runs, Rinku Singh played the role of finisher very well and returned to the team with the win. During this series, preparations have already begun for the next season of the Indian Premier League (IPL) with all teams preparing the list of their retained and released players. Speaking to Rinku, the coach of the Gujarat Titans team in the IPL, Ashish Nehra, who is part of the commentary team after this match, said that he is confident that the Kolkata Knight Riders team will definitely decide to retain him.
If KKR doesn’t do this, there will be a competition between all teams for Rinku.
For Rinku Singh, the 2023 IPL season proved to be a career changer for him as a player. On this basis, he also became a part of Team India’s T20 format squad. After that, Rinku’s role as a finisher was pretty spectacular. Speaking on Geo Cinema after the win against Australia, Ashish Nehra told Rinku Singh that he doesn’t need a scout now, he has reached where he needs to reach. As soon as you enter this compound, everyone else is sitting outside watching you. Whatever the scout is. As Abhishek Nair says, KKR will not leave you. I hope he retains, but if he doesn’t, the remaining 9 teams won’t leave you in the auction.
If it had been another team, they would have left me
During this conversation with Ashish Nehra, Rinku Singh also said about his journey so far with Kolkata Knight Riders in the IPL that when I was playing for KKR in 2018, I got some chances back then but couldn’t take advantage. In such a situation, I realized that if there was another team, they would have released me by now, but KKR not only kept me in the team but also supported me a lot.
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