Kolkata Knight Riders head coach Chandrakant Pandit wants his players to focus on their own game in the likelihood of the spectators rooting for Chennai Super Kings and its iconic skipper M.S. Dhoni in the Indian Premier League 2025 contest at the Eden Gardens on Wednesday.
“During these kinds of matches (when the support is for a star cricketer of the opposition), every player and every team always focuses on its own game,” said Pandit on Tuesday.
“There is so much noise around. If you ask that batter, probably he will say that I didn’t hear anything. Sometimes, we just ignore that noise automatically.”
Pandit said his team, which is much more confident now after two consecutive wins, should focus on one match at a time instead of bothering about the future.
“You always have to be optimistic. That confidence level is what we have always been saying. We always believe that we have the best batting line-up. It is unfortunate it didn’t click in the initial matches,” said Pandit.
Even though Dhoni skipped CSK’s practice session for the second consecutive day, the visiting team’s bowling coach Eric Simons said the captain was fine and would play tomorrow.
Simons said his side, though already out of the Playoffs race, was not just going through the motions and was working on different areas of the game while completing its remaining engagements.