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The problems seem unending in the Kolkata camp just ahead of the Indian T20 League 2023 as they have faced a big injury concern off late. Regular skipper and star middle-order batter Shreyas Iyer has been ruled out of the entire season of the Indian T20 League due to a lower back injury. Notably, Iyer also had to miss the fourth and last of the four-match Test series followed by the three-match T20I series against Australia.
Meanwhile, the Kolkata camp is facing a conundrum on the appointment of a new skipper for the 2023 edition of the Indian T20 League. Recent media reports have learned that the star pace bowling all-rounder Shardul Thakur and Caribbean star Sunil Narine are the two names in contention for leading the team during the upcoming edition.
Meanwhile, a section of the fans is not happy with the news of Sunil Narine or Shardul Thakur reportedly in contention for leading the team. They took to Twitter and expressed their displeasure over the same with different reactions and responses.
Here’s how fans reacted:
Koi to rok lo 😭😭😭
— Subhrajyoti Sau (@SubhrajyotiSau7) March 27, 2023
KKR fans after listening Sunil Narine or Shardul Thakur as their potential stand in Captain.
— Shakti Man 💥 (@IamShaktiMann) March 27, 2023
Le KKR fans to CEO Venky Mysore be like ;) pic.twitter.com/OZWGrs6y2X
Both are useless options... Nithish Rana better option
— KL Rahul 2.0 (@KL_Rahul_1) March 27, 2023
Bc Narine ne uae wali league mei haga fhir bhi usko ye log captain banane ke bare mei soch rahe hai 🤡🥴
— MS GEHLOT (@MSGEHLOT13) March 27, 2023
Hope Shardul becomes the captain of the team...will be fun when he keeps FSL and slips for a certain CSK batter against Varun Chakravarthy 😂
— Sachin Tendulkar Perumal (@sachintendulpbe) March 27, 2023
If they pick Thakur as captain,add me to the KKR fan club
— CricFan (@Tamil_CricFan) March 27, 2023
Lord Thakur be like :- Ye kab hua.... pic.twitter.com/sIL7YDsUE7
— Anmol Narang (@Anmol_Narang_) March 27, 2023
Muje to shardul ke Playing XI me hone ka bhi shaq tha aur ye log captain bana rhe h 😭
— Thek hai samaz gaya (@Gream_Reapper) March 27, 2023
Nitish Rana is the only option that can be considered for the captaincy role..
— Ayush Khurana (@Ayush2khurana) March 27, 2023
why not rana? he had captained delhi in domestic matches
— Anant Kashyap (@theanantkashyap) March 27, 2023
Sunil Naraine has been with the management for quite a long time. That’d be much great for the team if they chose Naraine.
— GAUTAM (@__gautamm) March 27, 2023
Kolkata will start their campaign in the 16th edition of the Indian T20 League with their first match against Punjab; both teams will play this match at the Punjab Cricket Association IS Bindra Stadium in Mohali on Saturday, the 1st of April.
Here’s a look at the Kolkata squad for the Indian T20 League 2023:
Shreyas Iyer (ruled out), Nitish Rana, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Venkatesh Iyer, Andre Russell, Sunil Narine, Shardul Thakur, Lockie Ferguson, Umesh Yadav, Tim Southee, Harshit Rana, Varun Chakravarthy, Anukul Roy, Rinku Singh, Narayan Jagadeesan, Vaibhav Arora, Suyash Sharma, David Weise, Kulwant Khejrolia, Mandeep Singh, Litton Das, and Shakib Al Hasan.
Notably, Kolkata didn’t have an expected outing in last year’s edition of the tournament as they failed to make it to the playoffs and ended up in the seventh spot with only six wins in the 14 matches they played.