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Kolkata: Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) will look to bowl to areas in which Rising Pune Supergiant’s all-rounder Ben Stokes is not strong, KKR’s Colin de Grandhomme said on the eve of their Indian Premier League (IPL) match here on Wednesday.<\/p>\nKolkata: Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) will look to bowl to areas in which Rising Pune Supergiant’s all-rounder Ben Stokes is not strong, KKR’s Colin de Grandhomme said on the eve of their Indian Premier League (IPL) match here on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
England all-rounder Stokes hit a whirlwind 63-ball 103 to help Pune recover from 10\/3 and go on to win by six wickets against Gujarat Lions on Monday.<\/p>\n
KKR, on the other hand, are coming into this game on the back of a 48-run revsersal, their biggest so far this season, against Sunrisers Hyderabad, courtesy David Warner’s 59-ball 126 blitzkreig.<\/p>\n
“I think we just got to execute our plans and hit our areas and try bowl to areas where he is not as strong and hopefully get him out early,” 30-year-old New Zealander Colin de Grandhomme told reporters on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Asked whether KKR’s lower order is an area of concern going ahead, the Harare-born Grandhomme, who bats at No.7 generally for the men in purple, said: “I think the more opportunity the lower order gets, the better they will get. The batsmen have been doing their job, which is a good thing.”<\/p>\n
On a personal level, Grandhomme said playing in the IPL has been a great experience.<\/p>\n
“It is the biggest competition in the world. It is a big thing to be playing the IPL, against the best players in the world, it is a big thing,” he said.<\/p>\n
“You definitely learn a lot, under best coaches, best players, you obviously learn a lot,” he added.<\/p>\n
KKR are second on the points table with 14 points from 10 games while Pune are fourth, having collected 12 points from their 10 outings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Kolkata: Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) will look to bowl to areas in which Rising Pune Supergiant’s all-rounder Ben Stokes is not strong, KKR’s Colin de Grandhomme said on the eve of their Indian Premier League (IPL) match here on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
England all-rounder Stokes hit a whirlwind 63-ball 103 to help Pune recover from 10\/3 and go on to win by six wickets against Gujarat Lions on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34545,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[20816,4744,660,466,3043,21534],"class_list":["post-34562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket-cricket","tag-colin-de-grandhomme","tag-cricket-news","tag-indian-premier-league","tag-indian-sports-news","tag-kolkata-knight-riders","tag-rising-pune-supergiant"],"yoast_head":"\n