{"id":150658,"date":"2026-04-03T04:19:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T09:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/?p=150658"},"modified":"2026-04-03T04:19:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T09:49:06","slug":"kkr-vs-srh-ipl-2026-nitish-kumar-says-he-followed-klaasens-advice-to-construct-crucial-partnership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/?p=150658","title":{"rendered":"KKR vs SRH, IPL 2026: Nitish Kumar says he followed Klaasen\u2019s advice to construct crucial partnership"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) all-rounder Nitish Kumar, who contributed a 24-ball 39 and two wickets in his team\u2019s first win of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2026 season, against Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) at the Eden Gardens here on Thursday, said his off-season work improved his bowling.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wanted to work on my bowling, but it\u2019s just the injuries which I went through last year. Thankfully, I got a little bit of time before the season, and I did pretty good in one week of training with a specific person. That really helped and (it) made sense whatever he said to me,\u201d said Nitish, a medium pacer, without naming his guide.<\/p>\n

Nitish said since the pitch was two-paced and the ball gripped for the spinners, SRH brought in Harsh Dubey early, resulting in the dismissal of the dangerous Finn Allen.<\/p>\n

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After SRH lost some wickets quickly, Nitish formed an important 82-run partnership with Heinrich Klaasen and helped their side post 226 for eight and beat KKR by 65 runs. Nitish said he followed the experienced Klaasen\u2019s advice during that partnership.<\/p>\n

\u201cKlaasen is such an experienced player, reads the situation well. He has been playing T20s successfully. Sometimes you just have to listen to a senior who has already been in that situation. One side (of the ground) was big, and one side was small, and the bowlers were trying to use that. We were just saying that bowlers were going to miss the lines and we were going to capitalise on the loose balls,\u201d said Nitish.<\/p>\n

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Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) all-rounder Nitish Kumar, who contributed a 24-ball 39 and two wickets in his team\u2019s first win of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2026 season, against Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) at the Eden Gardens here on Thursday, said his off-season work improved his bowling. \u201cI wanted to work on my bowling, but it\u2019s…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":150659,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/026.jpg","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgnRh4-DbY","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=150658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/150659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=150658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=150658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=150658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}