KXIP have charted three-year plan under Kumble, Gayle should start from first game in IPL 2021, says co-owner Ness Wadia

 Frequently changing captains and coaches have hurt Kings XI Punjab in the past and that is why the franchise has decided to work on a three-year plan under Anil Kumble and KL Rahul to take the side forward, co-owner Ness Wadia has said.


It was a roller-coaster ride for KXIP this IPL. They lost six out of their first seven games before winning five in a row to storm back into play-off contention. The Rahul-led side needed to win its last league game against Chennai Super Kings to reach the top-four but they couldn’t.


Looking back at the recently-concluded season, Wadia said the umpiring error to call a short-run when it wasn’t, cost the team a playoff berth though it did not show the required consistency in the first year under captain and coach combine of Rahul and Kumble.


“It is a new captain, new team with a lot of fresh faces, sometimes it clicks and sometimes it doesn’t. The auction is coming up soon and we would be looking to plug the gaps in the middle-order and our bowling,” Wadia told PTI.


“The international players did not perform to the expected level,” he said referring to the likes of Glenn Maxwell and Sheldon Cottrell, for whom KXIP paid big money at last year’s auction.


He also said that Chris Gayle, who was surprisingly not picked in the first half of the tournament, had done enough to be playing from game one next season.

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