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KKR contained the RR batters well, never let them get ahead of the game: Moeen Ali
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3/27/2025
IPL 2025, RR vs KKR: In the post-match press conference, all-rounder Moeen Ali said that the Kolkata Knight Riders kept a check on the Rajasthan Royals in Guwahati, helping them win by eight wickets.
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I thought we had an all-round great performance, great team win, so we bowled well.
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Everybody bowled well in their own field, but I thought for me it was, I wasn't so nervous because
00:13
obviously I'm a bit older and I've made debuts for other teams and stuff, but it was just do a job.
00:17
Sunil is a big miss for us and just stick to my strengths, try and spin the ball as much as I can
00:23
and just contain.
00:32
Definitely, I mean obviously we lost the first game and we probably didn't perform that well, but
00:37
it's just nice to get a win within your first couple of games so you don't
00:41
overthink things. But I thought today was a great team performance, everybody bowled really well
00:46
against a good side and I just thought we contained really, really well and never
00:51
really let them get ahead of the game, which then made our batting a little bit easier with
00:56
someone like Quinny, playing the way he played was outstanding.
01:01
It was a good wicket, I thought it was a good wicket. It had a bit for everything,
01:03
a bit of swing, a bit of seam, obviously spun nicely, but not massive spin, just enough spin.
01:09
Bit tacky, but it's a very nice ground to play. I played here in the England warm-up games and it
01:14
was really nice and so yeah, it was nice that there was a bit of spin for us.
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How do you like bowling with Varun, because he's having a great run in international cricket
01:27
and he bowled supermix. Did that help you?
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Yeah, I mean I came on before him so my job was to try and bowl tight as I can and then maybe he
01:39
can build a bit of pressure as well or get the wicket. I'm used to bowling with somebody who's
01:45
better than me and has more mystery than me, so my job there is to bowl as tight as I can and
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hopefully that builds pressure for that person to then get wickets. He's bowling outstandingly
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well as we know and he's a brilliant bowler. He's improved so much over the last two, three years,
02:02
so yeah, it's amazing to bowl with somebody like that.
02:06
How do you get back into the grind of a lot of travel, a lot of games and a lot of intensity?
02:28
Retired from international cricket, yeah. I mean I still play a lot of
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leagues and I still try and stay on top of my game because I still want to play for as long
02:39
as I can and do well. I'm doing other things as well, a bit of coaching and stuff, but yeah,
02:44
I'm just really pleased. That ball was a nice ball. I just tried to spin it as hard as I could. I knew
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there was a bit of pressure being built and I just tried to bowl a good area, spin the ball as hard
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as I can. I don't have the skill as other bowlers, but my job is to contain as much as I can, not get
02:59
hit for six over my head. If they hit good shots and it goes for sixes and fours, then I'm pleased
03:03
with that. So yeah, just to make it hard and I think my skill is that I think like a batter,
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so a lot of the time I'm trying to think what they think and it works in my favour, yeah.
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There's been a lot of talk of the team scoring 300 in an NBL match and we have seen a lot of
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high-scoring matches. So do you think a match like this or a wicket like this
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will tend to make cricket a bit more balanced as far as bowling is concerned?
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Yeah, definitely. I mean, some of the wickets are amazing. India is a great place to bat actually
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and when the wicket's like this, you're not going to get 300. You probably won't even get 200.
03:43
So it just brings in these kind of games and it's great to have these games in between those
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big games because those big scoring games are great to watch and you see, but it's a little
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bit of a false sense of security where you kind of, it's a bit too much. But the game is developing,
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cricket is getting quicker and faster and people are just fearless at the moment. So
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yeah, the bowlers do have to come up with something and planning and all that kind of
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stuff is more important, more than ever before.
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Last question.
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Yeah, it's amazing to be part of KKR. I've been really pleased with
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how things have gone so far here. When you go to teams that have won the trophy,
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they know what they're doing. They've won it three times. I was lucky enough at Chennai,
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they also won it three times when I was there, when I first went there. So they know what they're
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doing. Everything's calm. You lose one game, it's okay. As long as you're playing and you stick
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to the process, it's really important. And when you play for champion teams or teams that have
04:47
that champion mentality, they know what they're doing most of the time. Whereas teams that haven't
04:53
won it, they're still searching for that sort of remedy on how they're going to go about things.
04:58
So I'm really pleased that I'm playing for KKR and it's an honour to be representing the franchise.
05:08
It's amazing. Again, he's an experienced player. He's been around.
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Against Joff, I couldn't put a bet on him, but he was just making it look like he was
05:20
bowling quite slow. But he's fantastic, one of the best players in the world,
05:25
has been over a long period of time. And again, experience comes into it,
05:28
the quality he showed today, and hopefully he's going to score a lot more runs for us.
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