Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) mentor Gautam Gambhir has justified his franchise bidding for Mitchell Starc for a record-breaking quantity, saying that the Australia fast would be the X-factor and the chief of the bowling pack.
KKR shelled out a jaw-dropping Rs 24.75 crore to get the companies of Starc within the IPL public sale in Dubai on Tuesday.
“He (Starc) is an X-factor, there is no such thing as a doubt about that. Somebody who can bowl with the brand new ball, bowl within the dying overs and extra importantly, somebody who can lead the assault,” Gambhir, who was current on the public sale, mentioned.
“He’s going to be of huge assist to our two home bowlers as a result of each of them are very proficient and also you want somebody to assist them out within the center and Starc covers these bases.
“It isn’t solely about his bowling but in addition about main the assault and serving to all guys round him. So, anyone must pay for it,” the previous India opener advised Jio Cinema.
Gambhir, who captained KKR to 2 IPL titles, mentioned for him having a powerful bowling line-up takes priority over a powerful batting line-up.
“Now we have a whole lot of depth in our bowling line-up. We all the time wished to have a stronger bowling assault and now we’ve the choices with Mujeeb (Ur Rahman), Gus (Atkinson), Sunil (Narine), Varun (Chakravarthy), and Mitchell Starc together with two Indian seamers (Harshit Rana and Suyash Sharma) and Chetan Sakariya.
“Now, we’ve sufficient choices the place we will play completely different combos trying on the venue as nicely. For me, it has all the time been about having a powerful bowling line-up in comparison with a really sturdy batting line-up,” mentioned the BJP Member of Parliament.
