IPL 2: SRK ends multi-captain contraversy : Kolkatta Knight Riders

Sourav Ganguly returned a happy man after a meeting with Shah Rukh Khan and John Buchanan. SRK, the bollywood star who is the owner of the Kolkatta Knight Riders IPL team decided to put a lid on the controversy surrounding Buchanan's theory of Multiple Captains by releasing a statement that during a game the team would resort to a group of "strategists" who would report to one on-field captain while making decisions.


This move brought smile back to Ganguly's face who earlier showed disinterest during the conference where Buchanan announced his new theory. But is the plan still off? All the team has done is to replace the term 'Captain" by 'Strategists".

For any team, it goes without saying that there will be people who will help the captain to make decisions, It's just that KKR has put a term "Strategists" on them. The final decision of what needs to happen completely belongs to the captain and Sourav will now be seen making decisions off and on the field for the first five games. Changes could however happen depending on the team's performance in the first few matches.

After Buchanan's radical theory stirred a controversy on the eve of the team's departure to South Africa, Ganguly and Buchanan met at the residence of their franchise owner Shah Rukh Khan. Jai Mehta, who owns a stake in the team, was also present at the nearly four-hour long meeting. "Needless to say the term 'multi-captains' has raised a few eyebrows and questions. The idea is to have a set of strategists as is always the case classically in cricket, who will form a team of 4 to 5 core experts in the field of fielding, bowling, batting and data, etc," the statement read. "These coaches or strategists will assist the one captain on field with their viewpoints on the game-plan set earlier or shoot from the hip as the case maybe."

The statement stressed that there would be only one captain, who would be fed with suggestions from this core group of strategists. "The captain for the team is one and only one as in the case of 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 ... All internal decisions are taken collectively by the core cricketing team which comprises John, Sourav, Matthew Mott (assistant coach) and a few others." News and Statement's courtesy CricInfo

Kolkata will be training at Bloemfontein from April 5.






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