Kolkata Knight Riders opener Rahmanullah Gurbaz is wanting ahead to ‘settle scores’ together with his Afghan teammate Naveen-ul-Haq of their ultimate IPL league match in opposition to Lucknow Tremendous Giants, right here on Saturday.
The mercurial Afghan pacer all the time “teases” Gurbaz for dismissing him throughout their observe matches and this time the wicketkeeper-batter needs to offer him again.
“In observe matches he (Naveen) bought me out each time, and he all the time retains telling me that ‘I bought you out, I bought you out’… However as soon as the actual time comes, I’m gonna hit him,” Gurbaz mentioned in a lighter vein in an interplay posted in KKR Knight Membership. Gurbaz additional mentioned he hopes to smash Naveen for sixes this time.
“I met him as soon as in a T10 match and hit him for some boundaries. However this time, I hope I hit him for some sixes,” mentioned Gurbaz, who has 217 runs from 10 matches this season.
Naveen, who made headlines for his bust-up with star premier Indian batter Virat Kohli earlier this season, has performed six matches this season and bagged seven wickets.
He made a comeback of their final match in opposition to Mumbai Indians however solely to return wicketless with figures of 0/37 from his full quota.
Gurbaz, nevertheless, rated his 23-year-old teammate extremely.
“He’s among the best bowlers within the T20 circuit. He’s very sensible and really skillful bowler,” Gurbaz mentioned.
Third positioned LSG, who’ve 15 factors from 13 matches, simply want a win to verify their playoff berth, whereas seventh positioned KKR are getting ready to elimination and solely have mathematical chance to make the reduce.
“LSG are an excellent staff and have the momentum. However we additionally received our final match. We’ll strive our greatest to make it attainable,” Gurbaz mentioned.
Summing up their season, he mentioned: “We have now misplaced a number of video games by small margins which we might hve received. Luck was not in our favour.
“However we’ll give our greatest to win by excellent NRR and hope all the pieces works in our favour.
“However (followers) please don’t be disillusioned, if we fail to make it. We tried our greatest and can make it occur subsequent yr. Imagine in ourselves,” he signed off with a message to KKR supporters.