IPL 2023, Nitish Rana KKR Captain: IPL 2023 is going to start from 31st March. Before that, many big changes have been seen in many teams. The most important of them is the change of captain of Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR). Actually, the regular captain of the team Shreyas Iyer is injured and he is out before the ODI series against Australia. There are reports of him being ruled out of the entire IPL 16 season as well. In this episode, Nitish Rana, who has played the last four IPL seasons for Kolkata, has been given the command of the team.
In this news, we will know how Nitish Rana’s IPL career has been. He made his IPL debut in 2016 but has been associated with the league since the 2015 season. His career has been full of ups and downs. Things haven’t always been the same for him from 2016 to 2022. Meanwhile, he also got a chance to make his international debut but failed to make a mark. Now let’s know how was his career from 2015 to 2023, season by season.
Nitish Rana’s Journey has Not been Easy…
Nitish Rana signed by Mumbai Indians in 2015. But he had to wait an entire year on the bench in this star-studded side. Mumbai became champions again this year and he was a part of that team. After this he remained with the team in 2016 and here he got a chance to debut. But Nitish could not do anything special this time. He scored 104 runs in 4 matches and his one innings of 70 runs was just the center of attraction. It was known from here that what kind of player is this.
Then 2017 proved to be the real opening year of his career. This year he played 13 matches for Mumbai Indians and scored 333 runs in 12 innings at an average of 30.27 and a strike rate of 126.13. This season he had 3 half-centuries to his name and was instrumental in making Mumbai the champion for the third time.
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Suryakumar Yadav Came to Mumbai from KKR and Nitish Rana Moved to KKR From Mumbai
The biggest question was that why did Mumbai Indians release him even after such a wonderful performance in 2017? Actually this was the trade in which Suryakumar Yadav came from KKR to Mumbai and Nitish Rana moved from Mumbai to KKR. From here the fortunes of both Surya and Nitish changed colors. Surya has scored more than 500 runs for Mumbai this year. At the same time, Nitish Rana’s Mumbai form continued in KKR and he scored 304 runs in 15 matches. Then he scored 344 in 2019, 352 in 2020, 383 in 2021 and 361 in 2022. His performance so far has been consistent. He neither does anything bad nor does anything very explosive.
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Nitish Rana has 2181 runs in 85 innings of 91 IPL matches. His average is 27.96 and the strike rate is 134.22. He has 15 half-centuries to his name and 87 is his best score. He also bowls occasionally. He has taken 7 wickets which he took 4 in 2018 and 3 in 2017. He also got a chance for ODI and T20 debut in 2021 for India. But he could not take advantage of it. He scored 7 runs in one ODI. At the same time, he could score only 9 runs in two T20 International innings.
